The Shosoin is the cultural asset belonging to the Imperial Household Agency which was designated as National Treasure for the first time in Japan. (It is customary for Imperial Household assets not to be nominated for National Treasure in Japan.) And this storage came to be recommended as part of the Todai-ji Temple's cultural assets.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 

The Kasugayama Primeval Forest was first nominated as a "cultural landscape" in Japan, which represents Nara.
 
 

 

The Nara Palace Site is the first asset that was recommended in "sites", because they are of great historical and archeological value as the lost ancient capital city.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 

UKIMI-DO
  This is a hexagonal structure whose architectural style is classified as Octagonal-hall Type. The graceful Ukimi-do, which has a cypress-bark roof, floats on Sagiike, or literally Heron Pond, in Nara Park.
The image of this building reflected on the surface of the water is so beautiful that it is the place of recreation and relaxation of visitors. Because of the deterioration in its structure, it was under repair from the 3rd year of Heisei till the 6th(1994), and now its elegance has emerged again.
You can come across this hall if you go through the grove of Asajiga-hara, or a vast field of sparsely growing cogon grass, down from the Kasuga Grand Shrine.
 
 
 
 

 

 

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