Important Cultural Property of Nagano

Held privately in Nagano, this unsigned 70-centimeter katana is attributed to the Nanbokucho Hasebe school, the Kyoto line behind the famed Heshikiri Hasebe.

Held by the Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts in Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture, this Important Cultural Property is a single-figure fragment of the celebrated thirteenth-century Satake-bon Sanjūrokkasen-e — the foremost surviving cycle of Thirty-six Immortal Poets paintings of the Kamakura period. The fragment depicts Nakatsukasa, a tenth-century Heian poetess and daughter of Prince Atsuyoshi and the poetess Ise. Traditionally attributed to the master portraitist Fujiwara Nobuzane, with calligraphy attributed to Gokyōgoku Yoshitsune, the work survived the famous 1919 dispersal known as the Cutting of the Picture Scroll and now rests on the quiet shore of Lake Suwa.

The stepped channel of the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, built in 1917 after Alpine torrent works, drops through nineteen stone sills along 141 metres.

Antonin Raymond built this 1933 Karuizawa villa with log framing and a butterfly roof. An Important Cultural Property since 2023, it now houses the Musee Peynet.

The Bentendo of Kozenji in Komagane, Nagano, a plain one-bay hall of 1576 in a scenic Tendai precinct, holds a late Muromachi shrine cabinet, rare in the region.

The three-storey pagoda of Shinano Kokubunji in Ueda, Nagano, a mid-Muromachi tower mainly in the Japanese style, rises among village houses with curving eaves.

The inner hall of Kosuge Shrine in Iiyama, Nagano, a Muromachi building on posts against a rock 840 metres up the mountain, is a rare Shugendo survival.

The Komatsu Family Residence in Kataoka, Shiojiri, Nagano, a thatched farmhouse of the early 18th century, is counted among the oldest houses in eastern Japan.

The Sakato Bridge of 1932 in Nakagawa, Nagano, spans the Tenryu with a parabolic concrete arch of 70 metres, the longest span of any surviving prewar road bridge.

The 1766 house of wholesalers who also kept a hatago lodging house at Mochizuki-juku on the Nakasendo in Saku, Nagano, an Important Cultural Property since 1973.

The main hall of Sano Shrine in Yamanouchi, Nagano, a one-bay nagare-style hall of 1592 roofed with thick wooden shingles, is a dated Momoyama shrine building.

Built in the Kyoho era (1716-1735), the Shimazaki Family Residence in Shiojiri, Nagano is the oldest known fully formed honmune-zukuri farmhouse in Japan.

The shrine cabinet of Shakusonji, the Nunobiki Kannon of Komoro, Nagano, made in 1258, stands in the cave of a cliff-side hall reached by a steep mountain path.

The Yakushido Hall of Jokoji in Obuse, Nagano, a thatched hip-and-gable hall dated to 1408, is a Muromachi-period hall of the Healing Buddha, designated in 1907.

The kuri of Joshoji at Suhara in Kiso, a large gabled kitchen and priests' quarters of 1654, stands with the main hall and gate of the old Zen temple.

The gate of Joshoji at Suhara in Kiso, a four-legged gate of 1661 under cypress bark, leads to the early Edo main hall and kuri of the old Zen temple.

The main hall of Joshoji at Suhara on the Nakasendo, an early Edo Zen hall, belongs to the oldest of the three great temples of Kiso, closed until 2027.

A 2.74-meter andesite pagoda at Jōraku-ji in Bessho, Ueda, inscribed 1262. One of only two stone tahōtō ranked as Important Cultural Properties in Japan.

Jōrenji Kannon-dō in Ōmachi, Nagano is a late-Muromachi Important Cultural Property. Its chamfered posts and boat-shaped brackets keep Kamakura-era carpentry alive.

The main hall of Shirahige Shrine in Kinasa, Nagano, a shingled nagare hall of about the Momoyama period, keeps Muromachi features in its remote mountain setting.