Once upon a time, around a century or two after Buddhism was established in Japan, during the beginning of early Japanese poetry and probably long, long before anime was born (or I may have my timelines mixed up), legend has it that a mythological god arrived on a white deer to guard the new capital of Heijo-kyo or present-day Nara.
Fast forward more than 1,300 years and the ancient capital still possesses a storybook charm. There’s something almost magical about Nara.
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