Meiji

This late Meiji stable at Ueno in Katsuura divides its 11 metres into 3 stalls. Of the ten items registered here in 2008, it alone was listed as hard to recreate.

Built in 1907 at Ueno in Katsuura, this two-storey timber house closes the south side of the Yoshino Sake Brewery compound. Part of it still serves as the shop.

The smallest registered item at Yoshino Sake Brewery, this late Meiji shrine covers 10 square metres and carries fan rafters on its front. It was registered in 2008.

Built in 1907 behind the main house at Ueno in Katsuura, this small two-storey storehouse measures 9.1 by 6.4 metres. It was entered on the register in 2008.

The largest building at Yoshino Sake Brewery, this late Meiji hall runs 29 metres under a gabled roof with wide aisles on all four sides. It was registered in 2008.

Newly designated in 2024, 839 documents trace one Nichiren temple across 620 years, from a monk's vow to guard his master's writings to letters from the Edo shogun's court.

Letters, diaries and effects of Meiji statesman Okubo Toshimichi, 3,053 items at the National Museum of Japanese History, an Important Cultural Property since 2004.

A National Treasure near Tokyo: a Southern Song printing of the Hanshu in 61 fascicles, holding the earliest reliable Chinese record of Japan, the Wa people.

A complete Southern Song printing of the Book of the Later Han, kept in Sakura, whose account of the eastern peoples names Queen Himiko and an embassy of 57 CE.

A National Treasure near Tokyo: the Song-dynasty Shiji printed by Huang Shanfu, the oldest complete copy of the three-commentary edition, all 130 chapters intact.