Important cultural property
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A three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary of 1572 with a cypress-bark roof in Kimino Town, Wakayama, designated in 1944. The precinct is open all year, free of charge.
A single-bay Kasuga-style hall of 1502 at Hirohachiman Shrine in Hirokawa, Wakayama, listed in 1929, matching its neighbour of 1493 in size and in form.
The 1652 hall for Sugawara no Michizane at Hirohachiman Shrine in Hirokawa, Wakayama, listed in 1947, carries a lion strut that reads differently from behind.
The small Kasuga-style hall of 1493 beside the main sanctuary at Hirohachiman Shrine in Hirokawa, Wakayama, listed in 1929, dated by eleven surviving ridge tags.
A gable-entry worship hall at Hirohachiman Shrine in Hirokawa, Wakayama, dated 1704 and listed in 1947, roofed in split shingles and still used for the autumn rite.
A three-bay cypress-bark sanctuary of about 1413 at Hirohachiman Shrine in Hirokawa, Wakayama, listed in 1929, with a symmetrical gentian strut at the rear.
The two-storied tiled gate of 1475 at the entrance to Hirohachiman Shrine in Hirokawa, Wakayama, listed in 1947 and the starting point of the autumn procession.
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.