Important cultural property
重 要 文 化 財 一 覧Explore Japan’s Important Cultural Properties in one searchable list. Filter by prefecture, period, and category, read concise stories, and plan visits with maps and travel tips.
A Jomon-period clay figurine held in Tokyo. Its own name carries the find-spot in Miyagi Prefecture, while its own reading field there does not at all.
A Kofun-period mirror owned by the Gotoh Museum in Setagaya, Tokyo. Its own commentary there now runs to just one single sentence and no more than this.
An ink painting on deposit at the Tokyo National Museum, owned by a foundation. Its title names Shide alone, and not the usual pair of the two figures.
An Edo-period porcelain sake bottle held at Dazaifu in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Its own matching fellow there, of the very same form, is still unlisted.
An early Edo-period Buddhist pagoda in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It stands on the great foundations there that are some 1000 years older still.
A Nanbokucho-period manuscript held at Tenri in Nara Prefecture. Its own category field there spans three headings, with others appended after them all.
An Edo-period gassho-zukuri farmhouse in Nanto, Toyama Prefecture. The two separate records there narrow down its own date very differently even today.
A Showa-period lift bridge between Fukuoka and Saga Prefectures. It was registered first there and it was only ever designated later on than that one.
A Showa-period steel suspension bridge in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. Reading glosses sit right within its own commentary there in round brackets.
Yayoi-period archaeological finds from Chikushino, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. One single excavation there was split between two quite separate listings.
Twelve Showa-period school buildings in Hyogo Prefecture. Three of them, with their own two corridors, are counted together as just a single one here.
Ten Showa-period distillery buildings in Hokkaido. Their own dates differ from one building to the next, and each one of them is approximate here now.
Three mid-Edo-period buildings in Kinokawa in Wakayama Prefecture. The place name bracketed in its own title there is still an older one even now today.
Built around 1700 inside Hikone Castle, this shingled L-shaped stable kept rows of standing bays for the lord's horses. No comparable building survives in Japan.
This Keicho-era gate turret guards the last approach to the keep of Hikone Castle. Its rear wall is replaced by an open balustraded gallery, a very rare arrangement.
A Keicho-era gate turret at Hikone Castle with a matched corner turret at each end. The stone base joins original masonry on one side to late Edo work on the other.
A three-tiered turret at the north-west corner of Hikone Castle's west bailey, commanding the rear approach across a dry cutting. It was heavily remodelled in 1853.
Rebuilt in 1771 after a fire, this long turret walled one side of the Sawaguchi gate enclosure at Hikone Castle. Its blunt north gable marks a lost gatehouse.
The Important Cultural Property Sumiyoshi Taisha in Osaka covers thirteen buildings, from Hideyori's 1607 South Gate and stone stage to the offering halls of 1810.
Built in 1708, the main hall of Daikai Shrine at Sumiyoshi Taisha is the oldest surviving Sumiyoshi-zukuri sanctuary, predating the National Treasure halls.