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Kasugayama Primeval Forest (春日山原始林, Kasugaya-yama genshi-rin) is an area of 298.6 hectares (738 acres) of primeval forest in Nara, Japan, that is protected as a Special Natural Monument and which forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara.
Kasuga-taisha (春日大社) is a Shinto shrine in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. [1] It is the shrine of the Fujiwara family , established in 768 CE and rebuilt several times over the centuries. The interior is famous for its many bronze lanterns, as well as the many stone lanterns that lead up to the shrine.
Kasuga Grand Shrine (春日大社, Kasuga-taisha) Shinto shrine: 8th century - Nara period: Originally established in 768. Kasuga-taisha is the shrine of the Fujiwara clan, which dominated the Japanese politics of Heian period (794–1185). The interior is famous for its many bronze lanterns, as well as the many stone lanterns that lead up the ...
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Manyo Botanical Garden Manyo Botanical Garden. The Manyo Botanical Garden (萬葉植物園, Man'yō Shokubutsuen), also known as the Kasuga Taisha Garden, is a botanical garden located next to the Kasuga Shrine at 160 Kasugano-cho, Nara, Nara, Japan.
The taisha-zukuri, sumiyoshi-zukuri, ōtori-zukuri and kasuga-zukuri belong to this type. [22] Proportions are also important. A building of a given style often must have certain proportions measured in ken (the distance between pillars, a quantity variable from one shrine to another or even within the same shrine).
Taisha is a term used to refer to a rank of Shinto shrines. A taisha ( 大社 ) (the characters are also read ōyashiro ) is literally a "great shrine" [ 1 ] that was classified as such under the old system of shrine ranking, the shakaku ( 社格 ) , abolished in 1946.
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