Important Cultural Property of Hyogo
兵 庫 県 の 重 要 文 化 財Hyogo’s Important Cultural Properties — designated for their value to the nation’s cultural history.
Explore the Nagato Province Coin-Casting Artifacts, Important Cultural Properties from Japan's Nara period. These coin molds, crucibles, and bellows nozzles from the Nagato Mint reveal the origins of Wadō Kaichin, Japan's first official currency.
A Kamakura-period scroll at Ichijō-ji in Kasai, Hyōgo, in colour on silk, shows Amida Nyorai. An Important Cultural Property since 1908, it is rarely shown.
A silk scroll at Kōkyūji in Himeji shows Kanakavatsa, second of the Sixteen Arhats. A Nanbokuchō-period work, it has been an Important Cultural Property since 1917.
A Kamakura-period scroll at Tōsen Shrine in Arima near Kobe, this Kumano mandala maps the gods and buddhas of Kumano's three shrines onto silk. Protected since 1904.
A 69.1 cm Kamakura tachi at the Kurokawa Institute, Nishinomiya, signed only 'Ichi' and showing the bright clove temper of Bizen's Yoshioka Ichimonji school.
A signed early-Kamakura tachi by Kanetsugu of Bitchu's Ko-Aoe school, its high curve and crepe-like steel with dark sumihada spots typical of the line.
A late-Kamakura tachi by the Bizen master Kagemitsu at Hyogo's Kurokawa Institute, with an engraved vajra-hilted ritual sword half hidden by later shortening.
Discover 140 exquisite Heian-period bronze mirrors offered to a sacred mountain pond and now preserved at Hyogo's Kurokawa Institute — windows into Japan's ancient water-spirit worship.
Painted in 1890 by Honda Kinkichirō, Hagoromo Tennyo (The Heavenly Maiden in the Legend of Hagoromo) is a Meiji-era oil painting that depicts a celestial maiden soaring above Mt. Fuji and Miho-no-Matsubara. Designated a National Important Cultural Property in 2024, it is held at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe. This guide introduces the painting's blend of Japanese subject and Western technique, its painter's life, its remarkable journey across the Pacific, and how to visit.
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