East Asia & Himalaya

39 records from Japan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China. The region where the relationship between an estate and the state is the most interesting thing about the ground.

Amanemu holds private land inside Ise-Shima National Park, which is possible because Japanese parks are drawn as zones over mixed ownership rather than bought outright by the state. Ananda occupies a hundred acres of sal forest that still belongs to the family of the Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal, with a hotel company operating under them. Amanbagh holds a walled Mughal garden irrigated against an arid valley. Aman-i-Khás holds nothing at all: an unfenced camp outside Ranthambore that enters the park on a state permit twice a day and is struck for four months a year.

That last case set the floor of this collection's sensor. The House moved it to Selected after the card was written, and it now marks the point below which a property is a camp with a licence rather than an estate with a boundary.

What the region does not supply is coastline. These are mountain, forest and desert holdings, and the two Japanese entries that touch water look down on working bays they do not own.