Kamakura

Built in 1296, the two-storey gate of Enkyoji in Kitagata is pure wayo carpentry and among the oldest buildings in Gifu Prefecture. It is free to view at any hour.

The late-Kamakura tahoto at Nichiryubuji stands on Mount Takasawa in Seki, traditionally linked to Hojo Masako. It is cypress-bark roofed and free to view.

Standing in the precincts of Nagataki Hakusan Shrine in Gujō, Gifu Prefecture, this hexagonal stone lantern bears an inscription dating it to 1302, the late Kamakura period. Carved from andesite and rising over three metres tall, it is decorated with lotus petals, running lions, and a small seated Buddha figure. Designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan, it is one of the finest dated stone lanterns of medieval Japan and a rare surviving witness to the Mino-side centre of Hakusan mountain worship.

A Kamakura tachi of the Aoe school at the Hikari Museum, Takayama, a National Treasure since 1955, given by Ashikaga Yoshiaki to the Shimazu of Satsuma.

The oldest copy, made in 1291, of Ennin's diary of his nine years in Tang China, a National Treasure since 1952, deposited at the Kyoto National Museum.

Discover a life-sized early Kamakura-period bronze statue of Akasagarbha Bodhisattva — a nationally designated Important Cultural Property preserved with its original canopy and halo in the remote mountain village of Itoshiro, Gifu. Once the sacred body of Hakusan Chukyo Shrine, this masterpiece embodies the flourishing of Hakusan mountain faith.