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Nara National Museum
The most systematic display of Japanese Buddhist art; its 1894 building is an Important Cultural Property, and the Shosoin treasures are shown here each autumn.
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Todaiji Museum
Clay figures moved from the hall and set at eye level, where before they could only be looked up at.
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Kofukuji National Treasure Hall
The Ashura figure gives a god of war the face of a boy; made in light dry lacquer, it has no equal from the 8th century.
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Museum Yamato Bunkakan
Built by a railway company for its jubilee; Isoya Yoshida's low building rings a courtyard, and holds four National Treasures.
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Neiraku Art Museum
Reached through a garden that borrows the Todaiji gate and the hills behind it as its own scenery.
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Heijo Palace Site
An entire capital lay under farmland; its gate and throne hall have been rebuilt in timber at full size.
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Horyuji Gallery of Temple Treasures
The impossibly slender Kudara Kannon, and a shrine once carpeted in beetle wings - the Asuka sense of beauty at its clearest.
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Fujinoki Tomb
An unlooted coffin yielded gilt-bronze horse trappings pierced with elephants and phoenixes - evidence of continental contact.
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Kashihara Archaeological Museum
The museum of the institute that has excavated this basin for eighty years, laying out the formation of the Japanese state in objects.
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Takamatsuzuka Tomb
The painted women found here in 1972, in Tang and Goguryeo style, rewrote the history of painting in Japan.
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Kitora Tomb
Four directional beasts on four walls and a star chart on the ceiling - the only tomb where all four survive.
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Tenri University Sankokan Museum
An ethnology museum of household objects from around the world, among Japan's best for foreign material.
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Karako-Kagi Site
A tower drawn on a pot was used to reconstruct the building - architecture recovered from a picture.
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Kasuga Mandala Paintings
Paintings that show the shrine and its mountain as a Buddhist paradise - gods and Buddhas held in one image.