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:
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“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 milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)