Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties of Chiba

Kazusa-bori is a hand-powered well-drilling craft perfected in Chiba in the late 1800s, driving a chisel-tipped iron pipe on split bamboo to reach deep groundwater.

Performed each August 16 at Kōshōji in Chiba, Kiraigō is Japan's only surviving hell play: a seven-act masked drama in which a damned sinner is saved by Jizō.

Designated a national folk property in 1992, the Shiramazu Ōmachi unfolds every four years on the Bōsō Peninsula, famed for its sun-and-moon banner-pulling contest.

Chiba’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.