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The Laidback But Culture-Rich Japanese City To Visit If You Want To Avoid Tokyo Crowds
Continue your explorations of Nara's seven temples at the Horyuji Temple, which is one of the oldest in Japan and includes a 5-tiered, wooden pagoda that many experts believe is the oldest wooden ...
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Nara National Museum to show best of Japan’s Buddhist art
The seventh-century Dragon-headed Ewer, which was given to the Imperial Household by Horyuji temple ... Nara National Museum initially opened as the Imperial Nara Museum, the second museum in ...
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Photo plates found of Horyuji temple murals taken before fire
Some 150 glass photographic plates were discovered that show treasured seventh-century murals from World Heritage site Horyuji ... of the temple’s Kondo main hall in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture ...
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Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area
There are around 48 Buddhist monuments in the Horyu-ji area, in Nara ... Temple 0.7 hectares. The two sites are surrounded by a single buffer zone measuring 570.7 hectares. The Buddhist Monuments in ...