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They first appeared during the Nara period (710-794 AD) when the city served as the capital of Japan. Since then, their presence has been deeply intertwined with the city’s development and culture.

The imperial palace was built in the north so that the Japanese emperor could face south and look out over his people, in keeping with Chinese ideas of geomancy. Because the capital was primarily ...

“The cream of the crop representing the Nara Period (710-784 ... guardian of trainees and bless people with good fortune in Japan. The sculpture most likely to draw attention at the exhibition ...

during the Nara Period (710-784) when Nara was the capital of Japan, only to be destroyed later in a fire and a war. The existing hall, which rises to a height of about 15 meters, was rebuilt in ...

"provide a vivid picture of life in the Japanese capital in the eighth century, a period of profound political and cultural change". Nara is around 45km (28 miles) south of Kyoto, and was once the ...

Carved into a cliff across the river from the temple Ōnodera in Nara Prefecture stands the ... Until the Heian period, Japanese Buddhist sculptures in stone were often reliefs hewn like this ...

Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Tran Thanh Man received Governor of Japan’s Nara prefecture Yamashita Makoto in ...