Important Cultural Property of Aichi

Discover Tsushima Shrine's Important Cultural Properties - the 1605 Main Hall donated by Tokugawa family and the 1591 Tower Gate gifted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Experience authentic Japanese architecture and the spectacular Tenno Festival.

Discover the Important Cultural Property "Shigure" (Passing Autumn Rain), a black raku tea bowl handcrafted by legendary artist Hon'ami Koetsu in the 17th century. Learn about its unique glazing technique, poetic origins, and rich provenance from the Mitsui family collection.

Discover the Shoku Nihongi Kanazawa Bunko manuscript, Japan's oldest surviving copy of the imperial chronicle. This Important Cultural Property offers a window into Nara period history at Housa Bunko in Nagoya.

Discover the Purple Ground Haori with Aoi Mon, an Important Cultural Property featuring the rare tsujigahana dyeing technique worn by Tokugawa Ieyasu. Explore this exceptional textile masterpiece preserved at the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya.

A late-Heian tale of the Fujiwara regents and Michinaga's glory. The six-volume Tosho-bon in Aichi is an early copy, an Important Cultural Property since 1953.

Preserved in Aichi Prefecture and designated an Important Cultural Property in 1957, this unsigned katana is attributed to the Yoshioka Ichimonji school of Bizen Province, active from the mid to late Kamakura period. Although shortened (o-suriage), the blade retains a vivid midare-utsuri and a richly varied hamon of choji clove-blossoms mixed with gunome and tobiyaki—hallmarks of this celebrated school. With its excellent workmanship and remarkably healthy condition, it offers a rare window into the Bizen tradition, the apex of Japan's five great sword-making schools (Gokaden).

A grandly proportioned katana attributed to the Kamakura-to-Nanbokucho master Sadamune, this Important Cultural Property descended through the Owari Tokugawa family and is now displayed at the Nagoya Sword Museum (Touken World) in Aichi.

Shortened long ago and unsigned, this Kamakura blade in Nagoya is attributed to the Kyoto smith Kunitoshi by its temper and point, and is unusually well preserved.

An unsigned Kamakura katana attributed to Moritoshi of Bitchu's Old Aoe school, an Important Cultural Property since 1950, and where to see Aoe blades in Nagoya.

Discover the Sword (Unsigned, Rai Kunimitsu), an Important Cultural Property held privately in Aichi and once part of the Tokugawa shogunal collection. Forged in late Kamakura-period Kyoto by the master Rai Kunimitsu, this 69.6 cm blade exemplifies the refined Yamashiro tradition. Explore its history, artistry, 1960 designation, and where to see Kunimitsu's other works in Nagoya.

Discover the Three-Eared Jar with Chrysanthemum Design (Tamba ware), an Important Cultural Property of Japan housed at the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum. Crafted in the early 13th century at one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns, this exquisite jar features bold chrysanthemum incisions and a pristine form. Learn about its history, artistic significance, and visitor information.

The Kuroito Odoshi Domaru Gusoku (Black-Laced Domaru Armor) is an Important Cultural Property of Japan, worn by Honda Tadakatsu (1548–1610), one of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings. Featuring towering deer antler helmet crests, a fierce lion-biting front piece, and gold-leafed Buddhist rosary beads, this iconic armor embodies the spirit of a legendary warrior who fought in 57 battles without receiving a single wound. Currently deposited at the Mikawa Bushi no Yakata Ieyasukan in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture.

A Kamakura-period silk mandala of Butsugen Butsumo, the Buddha-Eye Mother whose eye embodies wisdom. It served an esoteric rite and survives privately in Aichi.

Pale green ash glaze runs down the shoulder while the foot scorches black. The Momoyama Iga flower vase Fuyo holds warped, deliberate beauty in 28 centimeters.

A surviving album of the Kokin Wakashu, Japan's first imperial poetry anthology, written on decorated paper and known as Sujikiri for its silver ruling lines.

Discover the Sekido-bon Kokin Wakashū, a National Treasure of Japan featuring exquisite 11th-century kana calligraphy on richly dyed paper. Learn about its history, artistry, and where to view fragments at museums in Nagoya, Tokyo, and New York.

Held in a private collection in Aichi Prefecture, this Important Cultural Property is a hexagonal plate made by the potter Ogata Kenzan with painting by his elder brother, the Rinpa master Ogata Korin. Dated 1710 on its base, it is the only known collaborative ceramic by the two brothers bearing a specific year, and its rare hexagonal form, Korin's crane and pine painting, and Kenzan's own poetic inscription make it a cornerstone reference work in the study of Rinpa ceramics.

An Important Cultural Property in Aichi, this Sunshōan Shikishi sets a Heian winter poem from the Kokin Wakashū in flowing kana on imported mica-printed paper.

An Important Cultural Property in Aichi, this 14th-century tachi is a rare signed work by the Sōden-Bizen smith Yoshikage, whose verified blades barely survive.

A late-Kamakura tachi by Kyoto's Rai Kunimitsu, slender for the master and shortened yet still signed. An Important Cultural Property now held in Nagoya, Aichi.