Important cultural property

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.

A collection of 2,435 Shingon ritual manuscripts handed down at Kajuji in Yamashina, Kyoto, spanning the 11th to 19th centuries and designated in 2020.

A late-Heian tale of the Fujiwara regents and Michinaga's glory. The six-volume Tosho-bon in Aichi is an early copy, an Important Cultural Property since 1953.

A Momoyama-period Oribe ware square bowl held privately in Aichi Prefecture, designated an Important Cultural Property in 1967 and fired at the Mino kilns.

Preserved in Aichi Prefecture and designated an Important Cultural Property in 1957, this unsigned katana is attributed to the Yoshioka Ichimonji school of Bizen Province, active from the mid to late Kamakura period. Although shortened (o-suriage), the blade retains a vivid midare-utsuri and a richly varied hamon of choji clove-blossoms mixed with gunome and tobiyaki—hallmarks of this celebrated school. With its excellent workmanship and remarkably healthy condition, it offers a rare window into the Bizen tradition, the apex of Japan's five great sword-making schools (Gokaden).

A grandly proportioned katana attributed to the Kamakura-to-Nanbokucho master Sadamune, this Important Cultural Property descended through the Owari Tokugawa family and is now displayed at the Nagoya Sword Museum (Touken World) in Aichi.

Shortened long ago and unsigned, this Kamakura blade in Nagoya is attributed to the Kyoto smith Kunitoshi by its temper and point, and is unusually well preserved.

An unsigned Kamakura katana attributed to Moritoshi of Bitchu's Old Aoe school, an Important Cultural Property since 1950, and where to see Aoe blades in Nagoya.