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• Kencho-ji
  It was originally built in the form of Chinese Ch'an temples, with seven buildings at the center, including a ''[[hatto|hattô]]'' (Hall of the Law), ''[[buts Seven Chinese junipers which stand in the compound, noted as famous historical landmarks<!--名勝史跡-->, are said to have been planted during the temp
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• Nakagusuku gusuku
  ...nated as World Heritage Sites, Nakagusuku is today operated primarily as a historical site and tourist site, with a minimum of modern structures on-site. ...ht have existed describing in greater detail the size, layout, or style of buildings on the site. However, some general information about the layout can be disc
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• Dazaifu
  The site today is maintained as a historical site; foundation stones and graveled areas remain, indicating the rough lay ...rs, and the like were also found below the central area of the Seiden. The buildings on the complex were arranged neatly on a grand scale, each surrounded with
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• National Treasures
  ...tems of designating objects, structures, and sites as being of cultural or historical importance. Those considered to be of the greatest importance are dubbed Na ...</ref> This was then modified to allow Japanese castles and other sites of historical importance to be added to the category.
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• Yushima Seido
  ...anomizu in [[1691]], housing the academy within the Taiseiden. Some of the buildings were repainted vermillion, with blue and green highlights, at that time, an ...under the direct control of the shogunate, rebuilt and expanded the school buildings, and made it a site for the training of shogunate and domain officials. It
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• World Heritage Site
  ...ional, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) as the sites of the greatest historical and cultural importance to all humanity, and the most worth protecting. UNE ...ins and underground archaeological material, and not for the reconstructed buildings.</ref>
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• Fushimi
  ...4,000 people at the town's [[Edo period]] peak; the town boasted over 6200 buildings, of which four were ''[[honjin]]'', two ''[[waki-honjin]]'', and 39 ''[[hat The town is known as the location of a number of significant historical sites and events, including the [[Teradaya]] inn where several famous sword
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• Northern Wei Dynasty
  ...Buddhist monasteries<ref>Schirokauer, et al, 86.</ref> and many government buildings. They divided the city into wards, a model which was emulated by the [[Tang [[Category:Historical Periods]]
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• Eisei Bunko
  ...sculpture]]s to ceramics and other tea wares, paintings, arms & armor, and historical documents. A very few of the treasures in the collection include: [[Category:Historic Buildings]]
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• Kenrokuen
  ...This has been cited as the first bronze statue erected in Japan to honor "historical persons of merit."<ref>Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', University Buildings within the garden, or immediately adjacent, include the house of Maeda reta
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• Kofun Period
  ...ve-ground homes, along with elevated rice storage huts and other secondary buildings, surrounded by fences. They were often as small as being home to only three [[Category:Historical Periods]]
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• Nagoya castle
  ...]. The tenshu was completed in [[1612]], with the honmaru palace and other buildings added over the next few years. ...ondary tenshu, four corner towers, the honmaru palace, and dozens of other buildings. Today only three corner towers (including the most famous original structu
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• Iwakura Tomomi
  ...ement of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, completing (re)construction of various buildings within the [[Edo castle]]/[[Tokyo Imperial Palace]] compound (which had bur ...l into decline once the Emperor left the city in [[1868]], for more purely historical and cultural reasons, citing Kyoto's beauty and customs.<ref name=fujitani5
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• Hokusai manga
  ...o be roughly encyclopedic, from gods to people to animals to landscapes to buildings to seascapes. Later volumes each focus on more individual themes. After the [[Category:Historical Documents]]
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• Inuyama castle
  ...uted to [[Oda Nobuyasu]]. Located in Inuyama City in Aichi prefecture (the historical [[Owari province]]) about 20 miles north of [[Nagoya castle]] on the Nobi p .... Inuyama was heavily damaged by an earthquake in [[1892]] when all of the buildings (not already torn down by the government) excepting the tenshu were destroy
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• Sekisho
  ...ing [[Minamoto no Yoshitsune]], and possibly with a considerable kernel of historical truth, Yoshitsune comes across Ataka no seki while fleeing from the forces ...rds. The only such checkpoint to survive today with some of its Edo period buildings intact is that at [[Arai sekisho|Arai]], in what is today Kosai City, Shizu
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• Kamakura
  A number of significant historical figures are buried in Kamakura, including Minamoto no Yoritomo, the swordsm ...ural significance for world heritage. As a result, a great many historical buildings survive in Kamakura, dating in many cases all the way back to the Muromachi
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• Yokohama
  ...o interactions with Westerners and the West; further, a great many notable historical figures traveled via Yokohama, including numerous visiting foreign heads of ...k magnate [[Hara Tomitaro|Hara Tomitarô]]. Home to many notable historical buildings re-erected there from across Japan.
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• Nakagusuku udun
  ...ng nearly 3000 ''tsubo'', were divided between a complex of roughly twenty buildings in the eastern half of the grounds (covering roughly 2,000 ''tsubo'' or 6,6 ...ed on a rise in the western portion of the grounds, removed from the other buildings and hidden from the air by thick tree cover) and a number of other items in
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• Shikinaen
  ...n shell, was also discovered on the site. Reconstruction of the garden and buildings was completed in 1995, and the site is now administered by the City of Naha ...na Cemetery (''Shikina reien'') in 1956; the graves of a number of notable historical figures, including [[Tei Junsoku]] and [[Nomura Ancho|Nomura Anchô]], were
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