Heian
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Ten Heian-period scrolls owned by Ichijoji in Hyogo Prefecture, showing the nine Tendai patriarchs with Prince Shotoku himself added on to the series.
This Tang dynasty manuscript (7th–8th century) is the oldest surviving copy of Volume 6 of the Shishuo Xinshu (Shishuo Xinyu), a celebrated Chinese anecdote collection. Designated as a National Treasure, this fragment features elegant Tang calligraphy, Heian-period reading marks, and esoteric Buddhist texts on the verso — a testament to over a millennium of Sino-Japanese cultural exchange.
The Ichijoji Temple Three-Storey Pagoda in Kasai, Hyogo, dated 1171 and a National Treasure since 1952, is Hyogo's oldest pagoda and the only dated late Heian one.
The Jogyo Hall at Kakurinji in Kakogawa is a late Heian hall for Tendai walking meditation, a hipped tile-roofed building entered from its short east end.
The Taishi Hall at Kakurinji in Kakogawa, built in 1112, is a National Treasure with a cypress-bark roof sweeping over its porch and Heian murals found by infrared.
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.