Important Cultural Property of Nara

A small square hall of 1447 on a detached plot of Taimadera, Nara: three bays by three, with a hipped roof and a Muromachi-era facade. Designated in 1971.

Built in 1572 and dated by its ridge tablets, the main hall of Takayama Hachimangu in Nara is a nagare-zukuri shrine named an Important Cultural Property in 1978.

Built in 1804 on Mount Tamaki in Nara, this Important Cultural Property holds Kano-school painted rooms above a basement retreat once used by mountain ascetics.

At the south edge of Tamukeyama Hachimangū, Tōdai-ji's guardian shrine since 749, this small late-Kamakura Sumiyoshi hall is an Important Cultural Property.

An eighth-century azekura log storehouse at Tamukeyama Hachimangu in Nara. Once part of Todai-ji's oil store and moved here in 1714, it can be studied up close.

Tanzan Shrine's 13 buildings in Sakurai, Nara, designated in 1977, include a polychrome main hall of 1850 and two earlier main halls that still stand for comparison.

The Tanzan Shrine Gonden Hall in Sakurai, Nara, was the Jogyodo of the old Myorakuji temple, a late Muromachi hall with a cypress-bark roof, designated in 1915.

Tanzan Shrine's Thirteen-Storied Pagoda in Sakurai, Nara, rebuilt in 1532, stacks thirteen cypress-bark roofs to about 17 metres and is said to be unique in wood.

The Tanzan Shrine Manirin Stupa in Sakurai, Nara, is a stone monument of 1303 by the shrine approach, a tall shaft topped by a large carved disc, designated in 1955.

Chogakuji Romon in Tenri, Nara, an Important Cultural Property since 1907, sets a late Heian upper storey above a Momoyama lower one and once held a temple bell.

Chofukuji Hondo in Ikoma, Nara, a late Kamakura hall designated in 1899, hid soot-blackened paintings recovered by infrared survey during its dismantling repair.

Built in 1499 and designated in 1907, this vermilion Kasuga-style hall stands on the Yamato highlands, where the watershed divides two of Nara's river systems.

Completed in 1894 by Katayama Tokuma, this brick hall in Nara Park became an Important Cultural Property in 1969. It closes for renovation in September 2026.

The main hall of Denkoji in Nara is a small hall of 1585, three bays square under a tiled hipped roof with a one-bay porch, designated together with a ridge tag.

The main hall of the Tenjin Shrine at Kitano, Yamazoe, Nara, a mid-Muromachi kasuga-style shrine with sixteen ridge tablets, hosts a dengaku rite each October.

The main hall of Tenno Shrine in Tenri, Nara, built in 1396, is a small one-bay kasuga-style hall roofed in cypress bark and designated with 5 ridge tags.

Todaiji's Great Bathhouse, a medieval bath hall dated to 1408 with three rooms and an iron tub cast for Chōgen in 1197, seen across a rice field from the back lane.

Todaiji's Corridor, two Edo-period ranges built 1716-1737 that run 41 bays from the Middle Gate to frame the Great Buddha Hall: its form, designation and access.

Todaiji's Kanjinsho Sutra Repository, an early Heian azekura inside the compound Kōkei used to run the Edo rebuilding, and the 5 October day when the compound opens.

Todaiji's Five-Ring Pagoda, an early Kamakura stone gorintō in Kawakamicho apart from the main precinct: how to read its form, what its date means and access notes.

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