Kamakura
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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 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.
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.
Chuzenji Yakushido in Ueda, Nagano, is a thatched three-bay hall designated in 1936. Its forward altar platform marks it as a late Heian Amida hall plan.