Important Cultural Property of Fukushima

The Iino Family Documents, 1,683 papers from the priests of Iino Hachimangu in Iwaki, Fukushima, begin in 1204; 210 medieval pieces record estate rule.

At Nyoho-ji in Koriyama, Fukushima, this stone slab stupa of 1276 is the best-preserved itabi memorial in Tohoku, an Amida-centered Important Cultural Property.

Discover the Iwashiro Yoneyama-ji Sutra Mound Excavated Items, a nationally designated Important Cultural Property housed at the Sukagawa City Museum in Fukushima Prefecture. This assemblage — including an inscribed ceramic outer container dated 1171, a bronze sutra cylinder, a small knife, a bronze mirror, a sword guard, and iron arrowheads — offers a vivid window onto late Heian-period sutra-mound beliefs rooted in mappō thought and devotion to the future Buddha Maitreya.

A rare transmitted ancient sword of Nara-period Japan, this kiriha-zukuri tachi has a rounded back, a barracuda-shaped point and a clean straight temper line.

A Nara-period straight, single-edged sword in kirihazukuri form, predating the curved Japanese sword. An Important Cultural Property held privately in Fukushima.

A privately held Heian straight sword in Fukushima, an Important Cultural Property since 1989. Its central shinogi ridge points toward the curved Japanese sword.

A Heian tachi in Fukushima, archaic in its rounded back and tang cord-hole yet built in ridge-line shinogi style, marking the shift toward the curved Japanese blade.

Unearthed from the wooded hillside behind Kōshakuzan Tennoji in the famous hot-spring town of Iizaka, this late Heian ceramic sutra container was designated a National Important Cultural Property in 1936. It is a quiet but powerful witness to how the late-Heian piety of sutra burial reached the northeastern provinces of Japan, and a compelling reason to extend any visit to Iizaka Onsen with a stop at this ancient temple.

Discover the rare wooden Kichijoten statue in Fukushima, a privately owned 9th-century Heian-period Important Cultural Property held at the Fukushima Museum in Aizu-Wakamatsu, reflecting the deep Buddhist legacy of "Buddhist Capital Aizu" connected to Nara's Kofukuji.

Ink writing on a post dates this Tadami farmhouse to 1718, the oldest in Fukushima. Designated in 1972, it was moved in 1973 and restored to its original form.

This 1729 Aizubange farmhouse has no ceilings, an earthen living floor laid with straw, and posts set on bare stones. Designated in 1971; by Tachiki Kannon.

A late Kamakura thatched hall in Aizubange, Fukushima, an Important Cultural Property, housing a giant wooden Thousand-Armed Kannon and its attendants.

A small late Muromachi hall with a thatched roof in Nishiaizu, Fukushima, an Important Cultural Property since 1966, worshipped locally as a protector of children.

The Jizo hall of Enmeiji near Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, a mid-Muromachi Zen-style hall with a pent roof, looks two-storeyed and is called the Fujikura Nikaido.

Okunoin Bentendo in Yanaizu, Fukushima, a late Muromachi thatched hall in the Zen style with bell-shaped windows and a painted interior, enshrines Benzaiten.

The Kannon hall at Shimogo in southern Aizu, Fukushima, a simple hall of about 1388 rare for its age in Aizu, is a stop on the Aizu Kannon pilgrimage.

Built around 1904 on a silkworm-egg fortune, this Date landmark joins a Western exterior and a semi-octagonal tower with Japanese parlors finished in rare hardwoods.

The Former Shōsō-ji Sansōdō, or Aizu Sazaedo, is a hexagonal wooden hall of about 1796 whose twin spiral ramps let visitors climb and descend without ever meeting.

Kumano Jinja Nagatoko in Kitakata, Fukushima, is an early-Kamakura worship hall of 44 open pillars and no walls. Walk among the columns beside its golden ginkgo.

A late-Kamakura shrine at Koan-ji in Fukushima once held a bronze Kannon triad. Restored in the 1970s, it now holds Benzaiten, among Aizu's oldest buildings.

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