Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)

Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)

The Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities). This heritage refers to all historical sites such as temples, shrines, and castles in Kyoto, Uji, and Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. There are 17 of them thar have been included in the World Heritage List. They are recognized as an important historical and cultural treasure and protected as a typical cultural heritage of Japan. In 794 BC, the Japanese imperial family moved the capital to Heianjing. Heianjing is located in today’s Kyoto city, a city that imitates Luoyang, China. Since then until the middle of the 19th century, Ancient Kyoto remained the imperial capital of Japan, the political and cultural centre of Japan. It not only witnessed the development of Japanese wooden architecture, especially religious buildings, but also showed the world the changes in Japanese garden art. Now the Japanese garden design art has had a significant impact on landscape garden design all over the world.

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