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	Nara Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nara Prefecture is located in the middle of the Kii Peninsula on the western half of Honshu, Japan.
		Nara is bordered to the west by Wakayama Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture; on the north by Kyoto Prefecture and on the east by Mie Prefecture.
		Despite being in the middle of Japan, Nara is one of Japan's warmest prefectures; snow is a rarity in Nara, although there is some accumulation in the southern mountains during the winter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nara_Prefecture (853 words)

	Japanese art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The next wave of immigrants was the Yayoi people, named for the district in Tokyo where remnants of their settlements first were found.
		During the Asuka and Nara periods, so named because the seat of Japanese government was located in the Asuka Valley from 552 to 710 and in the city of Nara until 784, the first significant invasion by Asian continental culture took place in Japan.
		Unkei's polychromed wood sculptures (1208, Kofuku-ji, Nara) of two Indian sages, Muchaku and Seshin, the legendary founders of the Hosso sect, are among the most accomplished realistic works of the period; as rendered by Unkei, they are remarkably individualized and believable images.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_art (6336 words)

	4Reference \|\| Art and architecture of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The next wave of immigrants was the Yayoi people, named for the district in Tokyo prefecture where remnants of their settlements first were found.
		The wooden image of Shaka, the "historic" Buddha (early 9th century), enshrined in a secondary building at the Muro-ji, is typical of the early Heian sculpture, with its ponderous body, covered by thick drapery folds carved in the hompa-shiki (rolling-wave) style, and its austere, withdrawn facial expression.
		Unkei's polychromed wood sculptures (1208, Kofuku-ji Temple, Nara) of two Indian sages, Muchaku and Seshin, the legendary founders of the Hosso sect, are among the most accomplished realistic works of the period; as rendered by Unkei, they are remarkably individualized and believable images.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Art_and_architecture_of_Japan.html (3863 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		'''Nara''' can refer to: * Nara Prefecture Nara prefecture, part of the Kansai Kansai region of central Honshu, Japan Nara, Nara Nara is the city of Nara Prefecture Nara** Prefecture, Japan * The Nara Period of the History of Japan *'''Nara''' is a major Manchu clan.
		Empress Dowager Cixi was from the Yehe Nara clan.
		* Nara (village) Nara is a village in the Abbottabad District of Pakistan.
	www.mauspfeil.net /NARA.html (262 words)

	Encyclopedia: Japanese Art
		Sculpture of Prince Shotoku in Asuka Dera, Asuka, Nara Prince ShÅtoku (è–å¾³å¤ªå 574-622) was a regent and a politician of the Imperial Court in Japan.
		Five-story pagoda at Kofukuji Kofukuji (興福寺) is a Buddhist temple in the city of Nara, in Nara Prefecture, Japan.
		The restored Suzakumon (gate) of Heijo Palace Heijo Palace (å¹³åŸŽäº¬) in Nara, was the Imperial Palace of Japan during the Nara Period (710-784 CE).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Japanese-Art (11684 words)

	Osaka, Osaka - Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is a connection by land and sea, from Yamato area (today Nara prefecture) beyond the Western Japan to Korea and China.
		The retail district of Umeda is located in Kita, while the entertainment area around Dotonbori Bridge (with its famous enormous motorised crab), Triangle Park and Amerikamura ("America Village") is in Minami.
		The central business district, including the courts and major banks, is primarily located in Yodoyabashi and Hommachi, between Kita and Minami.
	www.book-spot.co.uk /index.php/Osaka (866 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Japanese Art and Architecture
		At the core of Shingon worship are the mandala, diagrams of the spiritual universe; the Kongōkai, a chart of the myriad worlds of Buddhism; and the Taizōkai, a pictorial representation of the realms of the Buddhist universe.
		The wooden image of Shaka, the “historic” Buddha (early 9th century), enshrined in a secondary building at the Murō-ji, is typical of the early Heian sculpture, with its ponderous body, covered by thick drapery folds carved in the hompa-shiki (rolling-wave) style, and its austere, withdrawn facial expression.
		Unkei’s polychromed wood sculptures (1208, Kōfuku-ji Temple, Nara) of two Indian sages, Muchaku and Seshin, the legendary founders of the Hossō sect, are among the most accomplished realistic works of the period; as rendered by Unkei, they are remarkably individualized and believable images.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761577854__1/Japanese_Art_and_Architecture.html (3955 words)

	Miyake, Nara - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, Population, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 2003, ...
		Miyake, Nara, Japan, Population, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 2003...
		Miyake (三宅町;; -cho) is a town located in Shiki District, Nara, Japan.
		As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 7,798 and a density of 1,915.97 persons per km²;.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Miyake__2C___Nara.html (110 words)

	Nara, Nara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nara (Japanese: 奈良市, Nara-shi) is the capital city of Nara Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan, near Kyoto.
		In the modern age, as the seat of the prefectural government, Nara has developed into a local center of commerce and government.
		Schools in Nara include the Todaiji Gakuen, founded by the temple in 1926.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Nara,_Nara.htm (327 words)

	Ancient Japan
		The name Yayoi derives from the name of the district in Tokyo where, in 1884, the unearthing of pottery of this type first drew the attention of scholars.
		Traces of paddy fields, their divisions marked with wooden piles, have been found close to sites of settlements in various districts, along with irrigation channels equipped with dams and underdrains, showing that techniques of making and maintaining paddy fields were quite advanced.
		It is from the very construction of the tombs themselves, from an examination of the grave goods, as well as from increasingly reliable written sources both domestic and foreign that a picture of the Yamato kingdom has emerged.
	www.crystalinks.com /japan1.html (4157 words)

	Shiki District, Nara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shiki District, Nara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Shiki (磯城郡; -gun) is a (A region marked off for administrative or other purposes) district located in (The independent agency that oversees management of federal government records including presidential libraries and historic collections) Nara, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
		As of 2003, the district has an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 50,009 and a (The amount per unit size) density of 1,607.49 persons per (additional info and facts about km²;) km²;.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Sh/Shiki_District,_Nara.htm (104 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: Canonizing Kannon: The ninth-century Esoteric Buddhist altar at Kanshinji
		During the Nara and early Heian periods, inventories called shizaicho or shizai rukicho usually were required of officially sponsored temples (typically) called jogakuji, "fixed-stipend temples" (seen.
		Shinsho was made betto (superintendent) of Todaiji, Nara, in 840 and rose to higher ranks in subsequent years, ending with the administration of Kanshinji and Zenrinji in Kyoto.
		Shinsho provided a capsule history of the temple in his petition, which is excerpted within the Register, stating that Jitsue established the Kanshinji for the benefit of the nation and that he recognized the local administrator of the ancient Kawachi Province as the temple's head, or betto.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_1_84/ai_84721207/pg_19 (1455 words)

	Japanese art - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In reaction to the growing wealth and power of organized Buddhism in Nara, the priest Kukai (best known by his posthumous title Kobo Daishi, 774-835) journeyed to China to study Shingon, a form of Vajrayana Buddhism, which he introduced into Japan in 806.
		At the core of Shingon worship are the various mandalas, diagrams of the spiritual universe which influenced temple design.
		Unkei's polychromed wood sculptures (1208, Kofukuji, Nara) of two Indian sages, Muchaku and Seshin, the legendary founders of the Hosso sect, are among the most accomplished realistic works of the period; as rendered by Unkei, they are remarkably individualized and believable images.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Japanese_art (4182 words)

	glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The second warrior government established by Ashikaga Takauji which ruled between 1338 and 1573 from its headquarters in the Muromachi district of Kyoto after 1378.
		Temples built by the government during the Nara period in each province as state institutions.
		The court noble or religious institution to whom a shôen was commended who became the central shôen proprietor; a level of shiki right accorded to the "legal protector."
	www.ic.ucsc.edu /~naso/hist159a/glossary.htm (2632 words)

	ceramics
		Despite these new techniques we have to wait until the Nara period to see the first ceramics with an applied glaze decoration.
		These so-called Nara sansai were almost exact copies of Chinese Tang ceramics.
		The spread of Nara Sansai was restricted to the upper class of Japan and disappeared with the introduction of the Heian period (782-1184).Hajiki and Sueki ceramics continued to exist (they underwent some metamorphoses).
	www.kitsunegaroo.com /ceramics.asp (606 words)

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		Enichiji was not a large temple in comparison to temples in Kyoto or in Nara, the eighth- century capital; but it was large enough to have been expensive to build.
		The historian Takahashi Tomio explains that the holder of a village seal had to be a district or village official, indicating that the temple performed some local government functions.
		Although tantric practice affected almost all Buddhist institutions in Japan in the Heian period, it is largely associated with the Tendai and Shingon schools, introduced into Japan from China at the beginning of the ninth century.
	www.cs.ucla.edu /~jmg/ah/eniheian.html (1971 words)

	Untitled Document
		Petition of district magistrates and farmers of Owari province against governor for gross misconduct.
		Retired Emperors 1050-1150: In the Nara period, Jito and Genmei retired early and used their power to oversee politics from behind the scenes.
		Shiki= layers of rights to the income of a piece of land.
	www.hist.umn.edu /~nagata/3461lect4.html (3573 words)

	MATSURI, KIMONO, HAKAMA, OBI, TABI, ZOURI, KASA, KATANA, NINJA, WARAJI japan, japanese, traditional, classic, clothing, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To pray for a bountiful harvest of rice, a group of women clad in a traditional farmer's costume plant rice seedlings in a rice paddy, singing rice-planting songs to the accompaniment of drums and flutes, usually played by men clad inYukata.
		This festival, held in celebration of the god of horses, is unique to horse-breeding districts as a prayer for the safety of horses and prosperity of their owners.
		Praying for their happy reunion on this evening, people hang long narrow strips of colored paper on which poems and wishes have been written or other colorful decorations, on the branches of a bamboo set up in the garden or in front of the house.
	www.shop-japan.co.jp /matsuri/yoteimaturi-e4.htm (5572 words)

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		Bukeyashiki aka âSamurai District'', the Bukeyashiki is an area in Kanazawa with old samurai houses from the Tokugawa Period.
		The term of office of members of the House of Councillors shall be six years, and election for half the members shall take place every three years.
		Electoral districts, method of voting and other matters pertaining to the method of election of members of both Houses shall be fixed by law.
	www.openhistory.org /jhdp/download/encyclopedia/0.3.3/ejh.txt (16714 words)

	Nara Prefecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the eighth century, the royal court, which had been itinerant from place to place, constructed a new capital modelled after the Chinese capital, Chang'an.
		Nara people tend to be very conservative, though the influx of new inhabitants is gradually changing the local political trends.　It was astonishing that Nara prefecture kept electing a famous ultra-nationalist diet member, Seisuke Okuno, for almost half a century.
		Category:Kansai region de:Präfektur Nara eo:Nara (prefektujo) es:Prefectura_de_Nara fr:Préfecture de Nara ja:奈良県 pt:Nara zh:奈良县
	nara-prefecture.ask.dyndns.dk (888 words)

	Plain wood's building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shrines at that time is said to have not formed a main building for the god, but have been symbolised by adjacent mountain.
		For example, Mt. Miwa in Nara district appears to symbolise the place of the gods, standing behind the O-miwa shrine.
		It is said that the Shinto temple may have been developed from primitive huts since Yayoi period; then, around 8th century, an archetypal shinto temple was established.
	dougukan.jp /eng/bunka-e/B131e.html (1174 words)

	Takaichi District, Nara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Takaichi District, Nara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Takaichi (高市郡; -gun) is a (A region marked off for administrative or other purposes) district located in (The independent agency that oversees management of federal government records including presidential libraries and historic collections) Nara, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
		As of 2003, the district has an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 14,624 and a (The amount per unit size) density of 293.36 persons per (additional info and facts about km²;) km²;.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/takaichi_district,_nara.htm (104 words)

	Japanese dictionary of geography and travels #12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is one of the oldest shrines in Japan because according to the annals of shrine, it was founded 660 B.C. Kasumigaseki
		Administratively speaking, the district belongs to Chuo Ward, i.e.
		It was founded in 1944 and has diversified its activity to different business such as bus lines, real estates, department stores and leisure lands.
	www.hikyaku.com /dico/geotxtg11.html (1225 words)

	Tokyo - Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Beginning in the 1970s, Japanese cities experienced a massive wave of expansion as laborers began migrating from rural areas, and Tokyo was one of the most dramatic examples.
		As it grew steadily into the economic bubble of the late 1980s, Tokyo became one of the most dynamic cities on Earth, with a tremendous range of social and economic activities, myriad restaurants and clubs, a major financial district, tremendous industrial strength, a wealth of shops, and world-class entertainment opportunities.
		The construction boom of the bubble years was one of the greatest in world history (as judged e.g.
	www.book-spot.co.uk /index.php/Tokyo (1193 words)

	Modern period (from Japanese literature) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		, Peonies Kana: Haiku by the Upasaka Shiki, trans.
		It was named for a district in Kyoto, where the first Ashikaga shogun, Takauji, established his administrative headquarters.
		Although Takauji took the title of shogun for himself and his heirs, complete control of Japan eluded him.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-61851 (977 words)

	Guide to Japan \| List of Volunteer Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		1) Nagoya Castle, 2) Atsuta Jingu Shrine, and 3) Tie-dyeing and Arimatsu district.
		Other tours of interest include the Shiki Memorial Museum Tour and Uchiko-Town (Edo Period Houses and "Haze-berry" (vegetable) Wax Factory).
		You can meet us at JR Nara Station or Kintetsu Nara Station.
	www.jnto.go.jp /eng/GJ/travelSupport/list_volunteerGuides.html (2022 words)

	Ikoma District, Nara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ikoma District, Nara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Ikoma (生駒郡;; -gun) is a (A region marked off for administrative or other purposes) district located in (The independent agency that oversees management of federal government records including presidential libraries and historic collections) Nara, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
		As of 2003, the district has an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 80,507 and a (The amount per unit size) density of 1,569.34 persons per (additional info and facts about km²) km².
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ik/ikoma_district,_nara.htm (112 words)

	asahi.com : English
		Industry executives say new investments are essential to arresting a slide in passenger numbers, a primary challenge at a time when the population is graying and birthrates are declining.
		In addition, construction of two commercial facilities is already under way, one in Osaka's Chayamachi district, northeast of Hankyu Umeda Station, and the other on the former site of the Takarazuka Family Land amusement park in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture.
		The company is drawing up a plan to make better use of the former site of the Ayameike Yuenchi amusement park in Nara, which was closed in June.
	www.asahi.com /english/business/TKY200411100121.html (649 words)

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