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Elizabeth Market Researcher

Originally from England, I have spent many years in Japan studying and training in its traditional arts, dance, and religious practices. I since taught these subjects at universities in North America and Japan, and today I use my understanding of them to assist with museum and private collections and cultural consultation. I bring my knowledge and experiences to help visitors to Nara and its surroundings enjoy and appreciate its sophisticated culture on a deeper level.

Nara was once the imperial capital of Japan as well as a terminal point of the Silk Road, making it both a place of international confluence and a major center of domestic power. It has long been an important locus of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, and these birthed philosophies and forms of art that still inform Japanese culture as a whole.

Nara and its environs have a very special beauty that is imbued with the religious values that Japan embraced and developed. This can be found everywhere - not only in its architecture and fine art but also its mountain trails and sacred deer, and its sake production, graphic design, literature, and everyday customs. I am honored to be able to invite fellow travelers to experience this very special place, its history, and its many wonderful secrets.
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Latest Blog

A Mecca for Enthusiasts of Dance: The On-Matsuri Festival, A 3-Day Extravaganza of Ritual Performing Arts

  Kasuga Wakamiya On-Matsuri, better known as On-Matsuri, or “Grand Festival” and one of Nara’s biggest festivals, is an almost overwhelmingly rich time-capsule opened once a year every year since its establishme...

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Natural Treasures: Living with, Photographing, and Summoning (by French Horn) the Sacred Deer of Nara

The people living in Nara share the city with over a thousand deer who roam freely in its 1200-acre park, in the forests, and even along the shopping and residential streets. They keep the park’s grassy lawns trimmed ...

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The Making, Breaking, and Renewal of Vows at Fuku-in Temple

Fuku-in temple is one of the temples of Nara that represents the very earliest beginnings of Buddhism in Japan, and it attracts devotees of Buddhist sculpture for its main icon, a medieval eight-armed and three-eyed b...

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On “The Whispering Path” to Kasuga Grand Shrine, Japanese Writer Shiga Naoya’s Mountainside Residence

The Naramachi Mishiru (Seeing and Knowing Naramachi) initiative, launched as a means of showcasing the charms of Japan’s traditional townscapes, is halfway through its run till November 12th, and provides what could b...

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The 75th Annual Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures: Nara National Museum’s Unique Autumn Show

Given that the storehouse on the grounds of Nara’s Todaiji temple contains around nine thousand objects from which some sixty are selected for the yearly autumnal exhibition at Nara National Museum, it’s not an exagge...

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