World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
Inscribed: 1998
Components
Main data
- Name of Property
- Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
- Components
- Tôdai-ji、Kôfuku-ji、Kasuga-Taisha、Kasugayama Primeval Forest、Gangô-ji、Yakushi-ji、Tôshôdai-ji、Nara Palace Site
- Place
- Nara City, Nara Prefecture
- Tentative List Submission
- Tentative List Submission: 1992
- Nommination
- Nommination: Jun/1997
- Inscribed
- Inscribed: Dec/1998
- Criteria
- (ⅱ)(ⅲ)(ⅳ)(ⅵ)
- Municipality
- Cultural Resource Utilization Division, Nara Prefecture
- Municipality Website
- http://www.pref.nara.jp/miryoku/ikasu-nara/en/sekai/
(Nara Prefecture) - UNESCO Website
- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/870
- Photo
- Photographer: Tatehiko Yano
Related Resources
Explanation
Nara was the capital of Japan from 710 to 784. During this period the framework of national government was consolidated and Nara enjoyed great prosperity, emerging as the fountainhead of Japanese culture. The city's historic monuments – Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and the excavated remains of the great Imperial Palace – provide a vivid picture of life in the Japanese capital in the 8th century, a period of profound political and cultural change.