Important cultural property

Discover the Important Cultural Property Rōmon Gate of Gokoku-in at Kimiidera Temple in Wakayama. Built in 1509, this vermillion two-story gate blends Muromachi and Momoyama architectural styles and welcomes pilgrims to the second temple of the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage.

At Jōmyō-ji in Arida, Wakayama, this two-storied pagoda rises 12.95 meters. Built in the mid-Kamakura period, it holds five Wisdom Buddhas and old wall paintings.

In Arida, Wakayama, Jōmyō-ji's Main Hall is a late-Kamakura, tile-roofed hall that survived the 1585 fire which razed its temple. An Important Cultural Property.

Built in 1560 and named an Important Cultural Property in 1955, this single-bay Kasuga-style hall in mountainous Aridagawa keeps carved peonies and faded polychrome.

Built in 1785 for a village headman in Aridagawa, Wakayama, the Suzuki Residence is dated by its ridge tag and its four-room plan, an Important Cultural Property.

Rebuilt in 1462, the Main Hall of Tomobuchi Hachiman Shrine in Kinokawa is Wakayama's only three-bay nagare-zukuri with a front chamber and Kyoto-style carving.

The Main Halls of Niu Kanshofu Shrine in Kudoyama, Wakayama Prefecture, are three Shinto sanctuary buildings founded by the monk Kukai in 816 and designated as Important Cultural Properties of Japan and a UNESCO World Heritage component. Rebuilt in 1517 and 1541 in the single-bay Kasuga style with cypress-bark roofing, the halls feature stunning polychrome decoration and represent outstanding examples of late Muromachi-period shrine architecture. Located at the trailhead of the Koyasan Choishimichi pilgrimage route, they have served as the spiritual gateway to sacred Mount Koya for over twelve centuries.

A small karamon gate at Fugen-in on Kōyasan, once part of a Tōshōgū shrine for Tokugawa Ieyasu, moved here in 1892. Vermilion posts, vivid early-Edo carvings.

The main hall of Hōon-ji in Aridagawa, Wakayama, dates to 1457, fixed by a ridge plaque in its roof. A small, square, thatched hall protected nationally since 1917.

Hōzō-ji's bell tower in Wakayama is a Muromachi-period building with a hipped roof rare on such towers. Its bell reportedly warned villagers of the 1854 tsunami.

The main hall of Risho Gokokuji in Hashimoto, Wakayama, is a five-bay hipped-roof hall rebuilt around 1375, an Important Cultural Property with vermilion pillars.

Built in 1898, Japan's only surviving Japanese-style prefectural assembly hall hides a Western truss above its plaster-walled chamber. Restored at Negoro, Iwade.

Wakayama Castle's Okaguchi Gate, a 1621 turret gate, survived the 1945 firebombing that razed the keep. Its wall holds twelve gun ports cut from single stones.

Held by Horaisan Shrine in Katsuragi, Wakayama, this Kamakura-period map of Kaseda Estate records the houses, fields and rivers of a vanished medieval manor.

A Kamakura landscape screen at Kongōbuji on Mt. Kōya, showing sacred Shingon sites linked to Kūkai. Made for the kanjō rite, an Important Cultural Property.

A Kamakura Important Cultural Property at Hōjuin on Mt. Kōya. This mandala maps the realm of the Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī, basis of an esoteric rite for long life.

An Important Cultural Property at Sainanin on Mt. Kōya, showing the guardian deity Daigensui Myōō. The Agency for Cultural Affairs records it as a Yuan Chinese work.

A Kamakura ICP at Seijōshin-in on Mt. Kōya. It depicts the origin legend of the Taima Mandala, woven overnight from lotus thread for the devout Chūjō-hime.

An Important Cultural Property at Seikeiin on Mount Koya, painted by the young Hasegawa Tohaku. Long the standard face of Takeda Shingen, the sitter is now disputed.

An Important Cultural Property owned by Manganji in Wakayama. This Kamakura portrait of Emperor Toba survived the temple's 2012 fire while on deposit in Kyoto.