Important cultural property

A Momoyama shrine hall in Tsushima, Aichi, three bays wide in the nagare form. The Agency dates it to 1605; it became an Important Cultural Property in 1920.

An Edo-period tea bowl by Hon'ami Koetsu in Nagoya, Aichi. Black glaze covers it but thins in places, letting the clay body show through. Designated in 2007.

Forty volumes of the Shoku Nihongi at the Hosa Library in Nagoya. Volumes 11 to 40 are the oldest surviving copy, made in the later thirteenth century.

A Nanbokucho dagger at the Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art, 29.2 centimetres long. By Kunihiro of the Chikuzen Sa school; its two faces read differently.

A shrine hall in Tsuyama, Okayama, entered from the gable end. The Agency dates it to 1657; the shrine records building in 1562 and repair in that year.

A residence in the former castle town of Mizusawa, Iwate, seven buildings in all. The main house of 1888 is finished with painted panels and shell-flecked plaster.

A Buddhist hall of 1607 in Wakabayashi Ward, Sendai, five bays square. Bare timber at the gable ends, and a richly ornamented shrine standing inside it.

A shrine in Gion, Kyoto, where twenty-nine structures were designated together in December 2020, from its gates and fences to its subsidiary shrine halls.

An autograph record at the Yomei Bunko in Kyoto Prefecture. The body of it copies out those very court documents that were designated alongside them all.

A Muromachi-period tachi at Kitano Tenmangu in Kyoto. Its title copies out the blade's own inscription, which can be read only as far as the year itself.

48,275 Edo-period printing blocks at Hozoin in Kyoto, counted to the single block. The scriptures printed from them are recorded apart from these ones.

Old documents at Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto Prefecture. The title counts 2,205 separate pieces, while the quantity field counts the scrolls that hold them.

Six Edo-period handscrolls owned by the state and kept in Kyoto. Picture and text alike are attributed quite separately in the official record itself.

Two Edo-period shrine structures in Kochi Prefecture. Their own value here rests on how very few other cultural properties the region itself holds now.

An Edo-period Buddhist temple main hall in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture. Two other listed halls elsewhere in Japan carry this very same name here as well.

Eleven Edo-period items held at Ise in Mie Prefecture, Japan. The contents of this group there are counted in four quite different measures even today.

An Azuchi-Momoyama-period pictorial map held in Yamagata Prefecture. Its own commentary field there only points to an account held somewhere else now.

Mid-Edo-period shrine buildings in Yamanashi Prefecture. Their own marked regional character is itself given here as the reason for the value even now.

A Meiji-period hydroelectric installation in Yamanashi Prefecture. Its own structures there are recorded under two quite different owner names even now.

Jomon-period finds from Minami-Alps City in Yamanashi Prefecture. Their own quantity field there reads as just a single lot, with no number given at all.