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NaraMuseums

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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

Among the largest wooden buildings on earth; its 8.4-metre guardians were carved by Unkei, Kaikei and their workshop in 69 days.

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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.

NaraArt & Crafts

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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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Yakushiji

Its east pagoda has three storeys but reads as six, its skirt roofs giving the rhythm once called frozen music.

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Toshodaiji

Founded by Ganjin, who reached Japan blind on his sixth attempt; its main hall is the only Nara-period one surviving complete.

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Shinyakushiji

Twelve guardian figures ringing the icon on a circular platform, some still bearing their 8th-century paint.

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Akishinodera

The muse of the arts: her head is 8th-century dry lacquer, her body a Kamakura replacement - one figure of two eras.

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Hokkeji

A Kannon said to portray the empress herself, cut from one block with a soft, almost damp modelling of the body.

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Nara Ittobori Carving

Chisel facets are left raw and then painted in strong colour and gold - a technique born from shrine festival dolls.

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Ikaruga

Horyuji

The only 7th-century wooden buildings surviving anywhere; hall and pagoda set asymmetrically inside one cloister.

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Ikaruga

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.

NaraArt & Crafts

Ikaruga

Chuguji

A seated bodhisattva, one finger at the cheek, left in the bare black camphor - among the summits of Japanese sculpture.

NaraArt & Crafts

Asuka

Asukadera

Japan's first true temple; its Buddha, said to date from 606, has survived repeated fires and sits patched together.

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Sakurai

Hasedera

A roofed stair of 399 steps precedes the hall; the icon inside is over ten metres tall, and can only be looked up at.

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Sakurai

Shorinji

Nearly discarded when Shinto and Buddhism were forcibly separated, and rescued by Fenollosa - a summit of Nara dry-lacquer sculpture.

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Uda

Muroji

Its 16-metre pagoda is the smallest outdoor one in Japan; the temple admitted women, and was called the women's Koyasan.

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Yoshino

Kinpusenji Zaodo

Second only to Todaiji among wooden buildings; its columns are barely trimmed tree trunks, no two alike.

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Yagyu Village

Home of the Yagyu swordsmen, with a boulder split clean in two that legend says was cut by a blade.