Important Cultural Property of Kochi
高 知 県 の 重 要 文 化 財Kochi’s Important Cultural Properties — designated for their value to the nation’s cultural history.
Two Edo-period shrine structures in Kochi Prefecture. Their own value here rests on how very few other cultural properties the region itself holds now.
Main hall of Asakura Shrine in Kochi, rebuilt in 1657 by Yamauchi Tadayoshi: a gabled hall with a karahafu porch, rich polychrome, lacquer and gilt fittings.
Kochi is the only Japanese castle where the whole honmaru survives and the original keep and lord's palace stand together, one of just twelve original keeps.
Main hall of Tosa Kokubunji, Temple 29 of the Shikoku pilgrimage in Nankoku, Kochi, rebuilt in 1558 by Chosokabe Motochika, its shingled roof recalling early halls.
Hall of around the late 15th century at Kinrinji in Umaji, Kochi, with rare board eaves and fine cypress and cedar work, one of few such early halls in Shikoku.
Built around 1797 in Otoyo Town, Kochi, this thatched shoin was the last lodging inside Tosa on the daimyo's overland journey to Edo. Designated in 1974.
Built in 1816 to receive the lords of Tosa, this shoin hall at Chikurinji in Kochi turns its rear rooms toward a pond garden designated a Place of Scenic Beauty.
Chikurinji's main hall at Godaisan in Kochi, designated in 1904, wears Zen-style fan rafters and packed bracketing, with heavenly musicians painted on the ceiling.
Tosa Jinja Koro in Kochi, built by Yamauchi Tadayoshi in 1649, is still filed as temple architecture, a trace of the era when shrine and temple stood as one.
Tosa Jinja Heiden and Haiden in Kochi forms a cross read as a dragonfly entering the sanctuary. Built about 1571 in bare timber, its floors drop in three stages.
Tosa Jinja Romon in Kochi, rebuilt by Yamauchi Tadayoshi in 1631, is an almost undecorated wayo gate whose second storey was given a ceiling and treated as a room.
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