Important Cultural Property of Ibaraki

The 1577 main hall of Daiho Hachimangu in Shimotsuma, Ibaraki, built by a local castle lord: a tall three-bay hall on thick posts with small, intricate bracketing.

An L-shaped thatched magariya farmhouse from the early 18th century, moved in 1975 from Kanasago to the house museum in Koga Kubo Park; Ibaraki's oldest known one.

Naige Daijingu in Chikusei, Ibaraki, on a medieval estate of the Ise Grand Shrines, keeps twin shinmei-style main halls of 1679 and a thatched Gosenden of 1574.

The Nakazaki Family Residence in Mito, a thatched farmhouse traditionally dated to 1688, was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1968. Privately owned.

The main hall of Hachimangu Shrine in Mito, Ibaraki, built in 1598, is an Important Cultural Property, a three-bay shrine under a shingled hip-and-gable roof.

The Hanawa Family Residence in Kasama City, Ibaraki, is a late Edo farmhouse of 2 blocks roofed as one. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1976.

The Hirai Family Residence in Inashiki City, Ibaraki, is a thatched hall-plan farmhouse of the Genroku era. Designated in 1976, it was restored 2001 to 2003.

An octagonal hall at a Tendai temple in Mito, dated by beam inscriptions to 1585, with carvings of local Muromachi character; turned back to face south after 2011.

The main hall of Yakuoin in Mito, rebuilt in 1529: an unusually large seven-bay hall in a regional Muromachi style, later repaired under Tokugawa Mitsukuni.

An early-18th-century thatched L-shaped house in Kamisu, Ibaraki, home to village headmen and fishing masters; a rare fishing family house to be so designated.

Yokotone Lock Gate in Inashiki, Ibaraki, is the last brick and stone lock built in Japan. Completed in 1921 and designated an Important Cultural Property in 2000.

A late Muromachi pagoda at Raigoin in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki. The finial inscription names Toki Haruhide and the year 1556. Square below, round above, listed in 2006.

The Sanbutsudo of Ryuzenji in Toride, Ibaraki, a thatched hall from before 1569, enshrines three Buddhas and keeps a local blend of Zen and native styles.

The thatched four-legged gate of Ryogonji in Kasama, family temple of the Kasama clan, dates from the mid-Muromachi period and has been protected since 1917.

Hidden in a wooded hollow at Fukusenji Temple in Hokota City, Ibaraki Prefecture, this life-size standing Shakyamuni Buddha was carved in the late Kamakura period and designated a National Important Cultural Property in 1916. Its rope-coiled hair, exposed cypress finish, and concentric drapery follow the famous Seiryōji-style tradition tracing back through Song China to ancient Indian Gandhāran art. The statue is publicly opened once a year, on April 8.

Discover the National Important Cultural Property triad enshrined at Itabashi Fudōson (Seian-zan Ganjō-ji Fudō-in) in Tsukubamirai City, Ibaraki. Carved from Japanese cypress in the late Heian period, these elegant standing statues of Fudō Myōō and his two attendant boys reveal the refined sensibility of 12th-century Buddhist sculpture and continue to draw devotees from across the Kantō region.

Preserved at Muryōjuji Temple in Hokota City, Ibaraki, the Shūi Kotokuden is a colored picture scroll on paper composed by Kakunyo, third head priest of Hongan-ji. A surviving fragment from the 1608 fire, this Kamakura-period yamato-e was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1917.

Discover the Illustrated Biography of Prince Shōtoku, a Kamakura-period handscroll designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan and preserved at Jōgūji temple in Naka City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Painted in the soft yamato-e tradition, the 7.39-metre scroll narrates the life of Prince Shōtoku in fourteen scenes and arrived at this rural temple as a gift from Honganji's Kennyo following the Ishiyama War.

Discover the Silk-Painted Biography of Prince Shōtoku, a set of four hanging scrolls designated as a National Important Cultural Property and held by Myōan-ji temple in Bandō City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Created during the Kamakura period to support the Pure Land mission in eastern Japan, this masterpiece depicts about seventy scenes from Prince Shōtoku's legendary life. Learn about its founding by Jōnen, a disciple of Shinran, the painting's iconographic highlights, where to see the faithful replica, visitor access, and surrounding pilgrimage sites.