Gallery
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Daisenryo Kofun, the largest burial mound in the world.
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Hōryū-ji Golden Hall, the oldest wooden structure in the world.
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Daibutsu at Tōdai-ji, the largest bronze statue in the world.
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Tōdai-ji Main Hall, the largest wooden structure in the world.
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Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan and 3rd oldest lake in the world.
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Izumo no Okuni, who founded Kabuki in Kyoto.
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Kongō Gumi, used to be the world's oldest continuously operating company, constructed several Japan's cultural assets.
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Amanohashidate, one of Three Views of Japan.
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Sen no Rikyū, a merchant from Sakai, perfected the courtesy of tea ceremony.
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Japan's tallest temple pagoda in Tō-ji, Kyoto.
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Nintendo became the world's most successful video game company.
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Osaka Castle.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de Medici placed beside a milliners doll.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)