Important cultural property
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An early Muromachi-period Buddhist main hall in Shiga Prefecture. The Agency's own commentary field for the hall there has been left entirely empty now.
A Buddhist temple guest hall in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. One single page there gives two quite different dates for it, half a century apart now.
An Edo-period stone factory in Kagoshima Prefecture. The very same ground carries a second listing there, one that was made some three years earlier still.
Two thatched buildings standing in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Ninety whole years separate the front one there from the rear one even now.
A Nanbokucho-period map owned by Jokomyoji in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. It bears no date at all, yet is placed within just two short years today.
A Jomon-period boar-shaped clay object held in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture. The very same piece appears here in two quite separate records online too.
A Kamakura-period dais held at the MOA Museum of Art in Atami, Shizuoka. Its own length and its own width there are recorded as one single figure only.
A Meiji-period assembly hall in Chiba Prefecture. Its own reading there differs between the national record and the city's very own one even now today.
Three Meiji-period townhouse buildings in Osaka Prefecture. Its own name says former while its own reading field there leaves that word out completely.
A late Kamakura-period Buddhist main hall in Kumatori, Osaka Prefecture. Its own front and its own depth there both measure exactly three bays even now.
An early Kamakura-period stone pagoda in Usuki, Oita Prefecture. Its own owner there is recorded in two quite different ways in the two records today.
An early Muromachi-period main hall in Bungo-Ono, Oita Prefecture, Japan. Empty fields there now stand beside other fields that simply say none at all.
Eight Taisho- and Showa-period buildings in Tottori Prefecture. Their own floor areas there are written out in full in Chinese numerals even now today.
Four Edo-period shrine buildings in Tottori Prefecture. The listing here keeps an older name, while the owner itself now uses a much newer one instead.
A farmhouse residence in Kagodani, Tottori Prefecture. Its own reading field there covers the bracketed location set within its own name here as well.
A haori held at the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya. Its own period field says Momoyama, while its own date range reaches well into the Edo era besides.
A manuscript owned by the Tokugawa Museum in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, which comes down to us here in its own two volumes, the upper and the lower one.
A document at the National Museum of Japanese History in Chiba, owned by an inter-university research corporation, a kind of owner that is quite new here.
A Kamakura-period blade held at the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno. Its own reading field there reproduces all of the punctuation of the name even now.
A Kamakura-period mandala on one scroll at the Nezu Museum in Tokyo. Two separate records describe it, one giving the background and one the picture itself.