Kamakura
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A Kamakura tanto by Awataguchi Yoshimitsu at the Kyushu Historical Museum, Fukuoka, a National Treasure since 1953, broad and short with a fine edge.
Held at the Kyushu National Museum, this Important Cultural Property is a Yuan-dynasty Chinese tea bowl from the 13th–14th century. A rare kiln effect at the boundary of its black and brown glazes produces a silvery 'rainbow' band that gave the bowl its name. Its provenance traces back to the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa.
A 3.35-meter granite pagoda on a Dazaifu hill, raised in the 13th century on the site of the lost Hannya-ji temple, its four faces carved with Sanskrit syllables.
The main hall of Fumonin in Asakura, Fukuoka, a late Kamakura hall three bays square under a tiled pyramidal roof with a three-bay porch, was designated in 1913.
Encounter the Nikko Ichimonji, a 13th-century Bizen Fukuoka Ichimonji masterpiece and National Treasure at Fukuoka City Museum, once treasured by the Hōjō clan and Kuroda family.