Important cultural property

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12,889 total Important cultural property 47 prefectures
Showing 21 – 40 of 12,889
Kuwanomidera Temple Main Hall
Shiga 室町前期 Important cultural property
Kuwanomidera Temple Main Hall

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.

Seianji Temple Guest Hall
Shiga 江戸前期 Important cultural property
Seianji Temple Guest Hall

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.

Former Shuseikan Machinery Factory
Kagoshima 江戸末期 Important cultural property
Former Shuseikan Machinery Factory

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.

Nikaido Family Residence (Kimotsuki District, Kagoshima Prefecture)
Kagoshima 明治 Important cultural property
Nikaido Family Residence (Kimotsuki District, Kagoshima Prefecture)

Two thatched buildings standing in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Ninety whole years separate the front one there from the rear one even now.

Jokomyoji Temple Site Map
Kanagawa 南北朝 Important cultural property
Jokomyoji Temple Site Map

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.

Boar-Shaped Clay Object Excavated from the Tokoshinai No. 2 Site, Aomori Prefecture
Aomori 縄文 Important cultural property
Boar-Shaped Clay Object Excavated from the Tokoshinai No. 2 Site, Aomori Prefecture

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.

Raiban Dais in Black Lacquer with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay
Shizuoka 鎌倉 Important cultural property
Raiban Dais in Black Lacquer with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

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.

Former Gakushuin Elementary School Assembly Hall
Chiba 明治 Important cultural property
Former Gakushuin Elementary School Assembly Hall

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.

Former Konishi Family Residence
Osaka 明治 Important cultural property
Former Konishi Family Residence

Three Meiji-period townhouse buildings in Osaka Prefecture. Its own name says former while its own reading field there leaves that word out completely.

Raigoji Temple Main Hall
Osaka 鎌倉後期 Important cultural property
Raigoji Temple Main Hall

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.

Nine-Storied Stone Pagoda at Notsu, Usuki
Oita 鎌倉前期 Important cultural property
Nine-Storied Stone Pagoda at Notsu, Usuki

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.

Jinkakuji Temple Main Hall
Oita 室町前期 Important cultural property
Jinkakuji Temple Main Hall

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.

Ishitani Family Residence
Tottori 昭和 Important cultural property
Ishitani Family Residence

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.

Ochidani Shrine Buildings, now Tottori Toshogu
Tottori 江戸前期 Important cultural property
Ochidani Shrine Buildings, now Tottori Toshogu

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.

Fukuda Family Residence (Kamikodani, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture)
Tottori 江戸前期 Important cultural property
Fukuda Family Residence (Kamikodani, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture)

A farmhouse residence in Kagodani, Tottori Prefecture. Its own reading field there covers the bracketed location set within its own name here as well.

Tsujigahana-Dyed Haori with Hollyhock Leaves and Crests on Purple Ground
Tokyo 桃山 Important cultural property
Tsujigahana-Dyed Haori with Hollyhock Leaves and Crests on Purple Ground

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.

Nihon Shoki: the Age of the Gods (vols. 1 and 2)
Ibaraki 鎌倉 Important cultural property
Nihon Shoki: the Age of the Gods (vols. 1 and 2)

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.

Emperor's Family Tree Written in Ink on Paper
Chiba 南北朝 Important cultural property
Emperor's Family Tree Written in Ink on Paper

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.

Katana Sword (gold-inlaid inscription: Rai Kunimitsu, shortened; with the monogram of Hon'ami)
Tokyo 鎌倉 Important cultural property
Katana Sword (gold-inlaid inscription: Rai Kunimitsu, shortened; with the monogram of Hon'ami)

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.

Kasuga Fudarakusan Mandala (Color on Silk)
Tokyo 鎌倉 Important cultural property
Kasuga Fudarakusan Mandala (Color on Silk)

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.