Pictures of Nara, Japan

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Notes of this trip


Horyu-ji: Chumon gate
Horyu-ji: Chumon gate
Horyu-ji: Chumon gate

Horyu-ji: Chumon gate
Horyu-ji: Pagoda
Horyu-ji: Bell tower
Horyu-ji: Detail

Horyu-ji: Daikodo
Horyu-ji: Daikodo
Horyu-ji: Daikodo
Horyu-ji: Kondo

Horyu-ji: Pagoda
Horyu-ji: don't know
Horyu-ji: Kondo and pagoda
Horyu-ji: don't know

Horyu-ji: don't know
Horyu-ji: Kondo
Horyu-ji: Kudara Kannon

Horyu-ji: Yumedomo Kannon in Daikodo
Horyu-ji: Tamamushi tabernacle in Daikodo
Horyu-ji: The temple from above

Horyu-ji: Towards the Toin Garan
Horyu-ji: Towards the Toin Garan
Horyu-ji: Hall of Visions

Horyu-ji: Hall of Visions
Horyu-ji: Hall of Visions
Horyu-ji: Hall of Visions
Horyu-ji: Hall of Visions

Horyu-ji: Hall of Visions
Horyu-ji: Shariden
Horyu-ji: Hall of Visions
Horyu-ji: Hall of Visions

Horyu-ji: Hall of Visions
Horyu-ji: Hall of Visions
Horyu-ji: Hall of Visions
Horyu-ji: Another gate

Horyu-ji: Roof
Horyu-ji: Todaimon
Horyu-ji: Chumon
Horyu-ji: Pagoda

Horyu-ji: Nandaimon
Horyu-ji missing: bronze Shaka Trinity of 623 in the Kondo
(Courtesy Yamamura Toyonari)		 Horyu-ji missing:bronze statue of Yakushi-nyorai of 607 in the Kondo Horyu-ji missing:tableauz of five-storey pagoda of 711 depicting scenes from the life of Buddha
Horyu-ji missing:four guardian kings in the altar of the kondo (7th c)
Horyu-ji missing:gilded wooden Yakushi Trinity and four celestial guardians of Daikodo
(Courtesy Yamamura Toyonari)
Horyuji: Gilt wood Yumedono Kannon
(Courtesy Yamamura Toyonari)
Horyuji: Tamamushi-no-zushi
(Courtesy Yamamura Toyonari)

Nara museum near the train station
Nara museum near the train station

Kofuku-ji
Kofuku-ji: Chukondo
Kofuku-ji: Pagoda
Kofuku-ji: Pagoda

Kofuku-ji: Tokondo
Kofuku-ji: Tokondo and pagoda
Kofuku-ji: Bell tower
Kofuku-ji: Hokuendo

Kofuku-ji: Hokuendo
Kofuku-ji: Hokuendo
Kofuku-ji: Three-storied pagoda

Kofuku-ji: Chukondo		 Kofuku-ji missing: sculptures of the saikondo of 734
Kofuku-ji missing: statues by Unkei of 1208 Kofuku-ji missing: Kongorikishi statue by Jokei of 1288 Kofuku-ji missing: lamp bearer by Koben of 1215 Kofuku-ji missing: Fukukenjaku Kannon by Kokei (1189)

Kofuku-ji
Kofuku-ji

Kofuku-ji
Kofuku-ji
Kofuku-ji
Kofuku-ji

Kofuku-ji
Kofuku-ji
Kofuku-ji
Kofuku-ji

Kofuku-ji: Kannon by Kokei (1189)
(Courtesy Yamamura Toyonari)
Nara museum of art
Deer in the streets

Todai-ji
Todai-ji: Nandaimon
Todai-ji: Nandaimon
Todai-ji: Nandaimon

Todai-ji: Nandaimon
Todai-ji: Nandaimon
Todai-ji

Todai-ji
Todai-ji: Daibutsuden
Todai-ji: Daibutsuden

Todai-ji: Daibutsuden
Todai-ji: Daibutsuden
Todai-ji: Kaidanin

Todai-ji: Kaidanin
Todai-ji: Kaidanin
Todai-ji: Kaidanin
Todai-ji: Kaidanin

Todai-ji: Kaidanin

Todai-ji: Kaidanin
Todai-ji: Daibutsuden
Todai-ji: Daibutsuden
Todai-ji: Daibutsuden

Todai-ji: Shosoin
Todai-ji: Shosoin

Todai-ji: Shosoin
Todai-ji: Shosoin
Todai-ji: Shosoin
Todai-ji: Shosoin

Todai-ji: Shosoin
Todai-ji: Shosoin
Todai-ji: Ashoka pillars

Todai-ji: Ashoka pillars
Todai-ji: Sourin
Todai-ji: Hokkedo

Todai-ji: Statues contained in the Hokkedo
Todai-ji: Statues contained in the Hokkedo
Todai-ji: Hokkedo
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do

Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do

Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do

Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do

Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do

Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do

Todai-ji: Hokkedo
Todai-ji: Daibutsuden		 Todai-ji missing: four guardians/shitenno and their pedestals (73#) in the Kaidanin, Todai-ji missing: Fukukenjaku Kannon(74#) and shukongojin (733) and Bonten and Taishakuten and celestial guardians in the +Hokke-do/Sangatsudo
Todai-ji missing: wooden yakushi statue of 9th c Todai-ji missing: priest Ruben of 11th c, bodhisattva of the Songatsu-do (8th c AD) Todai-ji missing: priest Jugen of the Shunjo-bo (13th c) Todai-ji missing: guardian Kongorikishi by Unkei of 1203, Hachiman by Kaikei (1201)

Todaiji guardian
Todaiji guardian: great Buddha

Nandai-mon
Nandai-mon
Nandai-mon
Daibutsu-den

Daibutsu-den
Daibutsu-den
Daibutsu-den
Daibutsu-den

Daibutsu-den
Daibutsu-den
Daibutsu-den
Daibutsu-den

Kaidan-in
Kaidan-in
Kaidan-in
Kaidan-in

Todai-ji: Nigatsu-do
Todai-ji: Hokkado
Todai-ji
Kannon-in

Todai-ji: Fukukenjaku Kannon
(Courtesy Yamamura Toyonari)
Todai-ji: Hokkedo, the Shukongojin sculpture (733)
(Courtesy Yamamura Toyonari)
Todai-ji: Guardian by Unkei (1203)
(Courtesy Yamamura Toyonari)

Yakushi-ji: Entrance gate

Yakushi-ji: East pagoda
Yakushi-ji: Kondo
Yakushi-ji: Kondo
Yakushi-ji: Daikodo

Yakushi-ji: Daikodo
Yakushi-ji: Daikodo
Yakushi-ji: Daikodo
Yakushi-ji: Daikodo

Yakushi-ji: Daikodo
Yakushi-ji: Pagoda and kondo
Yakushi-ji: Buddha's footprint

Yakushi-ji: Buddha's footprint
Yakushi-ji: Buddha's footprint
Yakushi-ji: Bell
Yakushi-ji: Relief of the pedestal in the kondo

Yakushi-ji: Relief of the pedestal in the kondo
Yakushi-ji: Triad
Yakushi-ji: Toindo

Yakushi-ji: Toindo
Yakushi-ji: Toindo
Yakushi-ji: Toindo

Yakushi-ji: Toindo
Yakushi-ji: Yasumigaoka Hachiman shinto shrine
Yakushi-ji: Yasumigaoka Hachiman shinto shrine
Yakushi-ji: Yasumigaoka Hachiman shinto shrine

Yakushi-ji: Yasumigaoka Hachiman shinto shrine
Yakushi-ji: Pilgrims
Yakushi-ji: Genjosanzoin Garan
Yakushi-ji: Genjosanzoin Garan
Yakushi-ji missing: bronze trinity of 726 and Kichijouten painting of 8th c Yakushi-ji missing: Yasumigaoka Hachiman shinto shrine with three sculptures of 9th c (earliest extant shinto sculptures)

Toshodai-ji
Toshodai-ji		 Toshodai-ji missing: Buddha altar of 8th c and +sculpture of blind priest Ganjin and thousand-arm Buddha of 8th c in Kondo

kasuga
kasuga
kasuga

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