Heian
Kagawa · 平安Browse Kagawa’s cultural heritage from the Heian period (794 – 1185). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
A Heian manuscript in Kagawa Prefecture recording the gazetteer of Hizen, now Saga and Nagasaki. One of five surviving fudoki. National Treasure since 1955.
A Heian-period text owned by Zentsuji in Kagawa Prefecture. Its own fields stand almost empty, while the title itself states how it was all made here.
A Tang-period staff head owned by Zentsuji in Kagawa Prefecture. It came over from China long ago and is said to have changed the metalwork made here.
Discover the National Treasure "Fujiwara no Sukemasa Hitsu Shi-Kaishi," the oldest surviving poetry paper in Japan. Written in 969 by one of the legendary Three Traces calligraphers, this masterpiece at Kagawa Prefectural Museum reveals the birth of Japanese-style calligraphy.