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18 unusual facts about NARA


Bankei Yōtaku

The following year Bankei returned to Harima for a short while, and then left for Yoshino in the Nara Prefecture to live again as a hermit.

Buddhism in Japan

These schools centered around the ancient capitals of Asuka and Nara, where great temples such as the Asuka-dera and Tōdai-ji were erected respectively.

Coicent

In 2710, a boy named Shinichi is on a school field trip to a rebuilt 21st century version of the city Nara.

Daylight, Moonlight: Kitaro Live In Yakushiji

It was recorded over three evenings at the Yakushiji temple in the ancient Japanese capitol of Nara.

Emperor Go-Murakami

In 1348, Kō no Moronao attacked Yoshino, and the Emperor left for modern-day Nishiyoshino Village in Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, which was then Yamato Province.

Emperor Kinmei

Although the imperial court was not moved to the Asuka region of Japan until 592, Emperor Kinmei's rule is considered by some to be the beginning of the Asuka period of Yamato Japan, particularly by those who associate the Asuka period primarily with the introduction of Buddhism to Japan from Korea.

Emperor Kōmyō

In the Shōhei Reunification, Kōmyō and his companions were placed under house arrest in Yamato Province, in what is today the village of Nishiyoshino, Yoshino District, Nara.

Hanezu

The story is set in contemporary time in the Asuka area and recalls the ancient history of the place.

Izo Iburi

Iburi was born in Murō, Nara in 1833, but was forced to leave when his family became despondent.

Kaoru Kobayashi

At the time of the murder, he was employed as a newspaper deliveryman for Mainichi Shimbun in the Ikoma district of Nara Prefecture.

Louis Calhern

Calhern died of a sudden heart attack in Nara, Japan, while filming The Teahouse of the August Moon.

Nara-Narayana

Narayana sent this nymph to Indra with them, and from her having been produced from the thigh (uru in Sanskrit) of the sage, she was called Urvashi.

New Zealand Parliament Buildings

It is the second-largest wooden building in the world (after Tōdai-ji in Nara, Japan), and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.

Taiheiki

Despite this, he was not arrested for lèse majesté, even when donning the Imperial Crest, because he had a koseki detailing his bloodline back to Go-Daigo in Yoshino, but has been unsuccessful at creating any political change other than sympathy.

Takemikazuchi

The Nakatomi clan, essentially the priestly branch of the Fujiwara clan, also placed the veneration of the Takemikazuchi/Kashima deity in the Kasuga Grand Shrine in Nara.

Tokushōryū Makoto

Tokushōryū Makoto (born August 22, 1986 as Makoto Aoki) is a professional sumo wrestler from Nara, Japan.

Twenty-Two Shrines

It became the middle shrine (nakasha) only after the shrine in Shimoichi and Kawakami were united with it.

Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems

CHES 2000 was also held at WPI; after that, the conference has been held at various locations worldwide, including in chronological order Paris, Cologne, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Yokohama, Vienna, Washington, D.C., Lausanne, Santa Barbara, California and Nara.


Alexey Zakharov

Aleksei Vladimirovich Zakharov (born 1985), Russian association football player with FC Nara-ShBFR Naro-Fominsk

Anton Piskunov

Anton Vyacheslavovich Piskunov (b. 1989), Russian footballer who last played for FC Nara-ShBFR Naro-Fominsk in the first half of 2009

Archival Recovery Team

Operating as part of NARA's Office of the Inspector General, they have had some notable successes in recovering items like presidential pardons from Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew Jackson or a Remington bronco statute given to George H.W. Bush.

Asuka-dera

Following the transfer of the capital from Asuka to Heijō-kyō (now Nara city), the buildings of Asuka-dera were also removed from the original site in Asuka to Nara in 718 CE, and developed into a huge temple under the name of Gangō-ji.

Battle of Saraighat

Their commander-in-chief, Lachit Borphukan and their admiral were both seriously ill, and the Nara Raja, the son of the Miri Sandikoi, was in command.

Freedom Deep

"Freedom Deep" was played live at The Great Music Experience in Nara, Japan in May 1994 at the UNESCO Concert, the idea being to bring together Japanese and Western Music.

Ghazi Nara

Ghazi Nara is a scenic and touristic hillside settlement near Jhelum City in the Punjab province of Pakistan approximately 15 km from Dina and 10 km from Khukha.

Hitomi Shimizu

Born in Nara, Japan, she majored in music composition at the Toho Gakuen School of Music.

Japanese sculpture

Earliest examples of Buddhist art may be seen in accumulated splendor at the seventh century Horyuji temple in Nara, whose buildings themselves, set in a prescribed pattern with main hall, belfy, pagodas, and other buildings enclosed within an encircling roofed corridor, retain an aura of the ancient era, together with the countless art treasures preserved within their halls.

Kong Bai Ji

His works are included in the permanent collections of many of the world's top museums and cultural institutions, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Lincoln Center in New York, The National Art Museum of China, in Beijing, The Shanghai Art Museum, Harvard University, Smith College Museum of Art, The Soyanzi Art Museum in Tokyo, The Peace Museum in Hokkaido, Japan, and the sacred Kimpusen-ji temple in Nara, Japan—a designated Japanese national treasure.

Kooperativa Förbundet

The grocery retail group, Coop, stands for around 85 per cent of the sale with store brands like Coop Konsum, Coop Nära, Coop Extra and Coop Forum.

Kurumi Nara

In 2004, after entering the middle school associated with Osaka Sangyo University, Nara won the girls' singles title in the All Japan Middle School Tennis Championship.

Lake Narach

Linguists think that its name is probably from the Indo-European root *nar- often found in names of bodies of water (e.g., the Nara and Neris rivers).

Mne s Toboy Horosho

The CD Single released contains 4 remixes of the song and the exclusive official English version: Don't Get Mad At Me (Nara Nara Na Na), being the Gabry Ponte Remix Radio Edit the most popular one and the one used in performances such as at the Dome 31.

Musikas

:"And in the second year (he), disregarding Satakamini, dispatches to the western regions an army strong in cavalry, elephants, infantry (nara) and chariots (ratha) and by that army having reached the Kanha-bemna, he throws the city of the Musikas into consternation."

Muzaffar Shah of Malacca

Seri Nara Diraja Tun Ali, the uncle of the Sultan also served as the bendahara of Malacca.

Nara Document on Authenticity

In this part, it is indicated that the Nara Document was stemmed from the Venice Charter of 1964.

Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties

The Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties is located in close proximity to the Yamato-Saidaiji Station on the Kintetsu Nara Line, Kyoto Line, and Kashihara Line.

Naval Air Facility Atsugi

Yamato is an alternative name for the Nara region, Ayase is generally associated with the area around Ayase Station in northeast Tokyo, and Shibuya is generally associated with the ward of Shibuya in central Tokyo.

Old Government Buildings, Wellington

It was completed in 1876, and until 1998 was the second-largest wooden building in the world (after Tōdai-ji in Nara, Japan).

Park Bum-shin

Of special note are Country of Fire (Bur ui nara) and Country of Water (Mul ui nara), which appeared in The Dong-a Ilbo in the early and mid-1980s and won critical recognition.

Presidential Records Act

Executive Order 12667 - Issued by President Reagan in January 1989, this executive order established the procedures for NARA and former and incumbent Presidents to implement the PRA.

Qurbani Jatt Di

Jeeto's three brothers Jora(Yograj Singh), Nara(Gugu Gill) & Dheera ( Deep Dhillon) not satisfied with this, of deceased attempt to break-up Jeeto's marriage with Jagroop(Raj Babbar), and also prevent her look-alike sister, Preeto, from getting married to Sucha's brother Karamjeet(Gurdas Maan), setting off a feud that will result in more acrimony, and many more deaths.

Rakuyōshū

Two complete copies were survived during the turbulent feudal period of Japanese history: one is now held by the Tenri Central Library, in Tenri, Nara, and the other is held by the British Library through Ernest Satow who bought this copy from antique dealer in Edo.

Religion in Eritrea

Additionally, many of the Nilo-Saharan-speaking Nara ethnic minorities also adhere to Islam, as do some of the Kunama Nilotes.

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

In March 2005, the Nixon Foundation invited the National Archives to jointly operate the Nixon Library, and then-Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein allowed for the Nixon Library to become the twelfth federally funded presidential library, operated and staffed by NARA in conjunction with the Nixon Foundation.

Sanae Takaichi

Born and raised in the city of Nara, Takaichi graduated from to Nara Prefectural Unebi Senior High School for her secondary education, then she received Bachelor of Business Administration from Kobe University in 1984.

Sansei Yamao

At that time, Sansei Yamao and Gary Snyder traversed the Ominesan mountain range in Nara, which is known as the Shugendō mountain, together for a week.

Seiyō Ogawa

He took photographs of Buddhist sculptures at the old temples in Nara and Kyoto, as well as of ruins in foreign countries, such as the Yungang Grottoes in China; Angkor Wat in Cambodia; and Borobudur and Candi Prambananin in Central Java.

Sento-kun

The city of Nara has a long tradition of adopting guardian deities such as Nio (a pair of temple guardians), Asura, Jūni Shinshō (Twelve Heavenly Generals) and Shitenno (Four Guardian Kings).

Shibori

In Japan, the earliest known example of cloth dyed with a shibori technique dates from the 8th century; it is among the goods donated by the Emperor Shōmu to the Tōdai-ji in Nara.

Tajwal

Tajwal is located in the south of the district and is in the north western part of Havelian Tehsil, it is bounded by the following union councils, Nathia Gali to the north, Palak to the east, Seer Gharbi and Nara to the south, as well as Dewal Manal and Nara to the west.

Tatunca Nara

In the 1970s, German foreign correspondent Karl Brugger met "Tatunca Nara", who told him of the history of Akakor, an underground city below the rain forest.

Tomio

Tomio Station (富雄駅), a train station on the Kintetsu Nara Line in Nara, Japan.

Tomoko Sugawara

With Swedish professor Bo Lawergren, whom she met at a kugo museum exhibit in Nara, Japan she engineered a fully working model of a kugo and hired American harp builder Bill Campbell to construct it.

Ugab River

Also found there indigenously are some stunted acacia trees, nara bushes, Acanthosicyos horridus, with their (almost leafless) spiky green stems, and improbably large melons.

Wanda Nara

Wanda Nara (born 9 December 1986) is an Argentine model and vedette, sister of Zaira Nara, ex-wife of Maxi López and has an affair with Mauro Icardi.

Yamagata, Gifu

The name, Yamagata, has already existed in one of the oldest Japanese family registry which was published in 702 and has been stored in Shosoin, Nara.

北山

Kitayama, Wakayama, exclave village of Wakayama on the Mie–Nara border, Japan