Important Cultural Property of Nara

Todaiji's Sanmaido, or Shigatsudo, a three-bay hall of 1681 with Kamakura timbers and a Heian Fugen on an elephant, now closed for seismic work from May 2025.

Todaiji's Middle Gate, a five-bay rōmon of 1714 in front of the Great Buddha Hall: why it followed the hall, when its doors open and the window view of the Buddha.

Todaiji's western Tozai Gakumon Gate, an eight-legged gate of 1719 in the Great Buddha Hall corridor: how it fits the Edo rebuilding, its form and how to view it.

Todaiji's eastern Tozai Gakumon Gate, built in 1722 in the Great Buddha Hall corridor, and how it compares with the Nara-period Tegaimon Gate of the same type.

The Akaiya below Todaiji's Nigatsudo, a late Kamakura building over the Wakasai well tapped at the 12 March Omizutori, and its tie to Obama's water-sending.

Todaiji's Nigatsudo Sanrosho, a ten-bay lodging of 1277-1282 tied to the monks of the Shunie retreat: its size, why it is listed and where to see it from.

Todaiji's Nigatsudo Busshoya, an early Kamakura building where offerings for the Nigatsudo are prepared, four centuries older than the hall it serves.

Todaiji's Nenbutsu Hall, a three-bay hall of 1237 enshrining a Jizō carved the same year: its stepped Genroku-era roof, its place on the bell hill and hours.

Todaiji's Hokkedo North Gate, a four-legged gate of 1240 beside the temple's oldest hall: how the form works, its place in the Kamakura rebuilding and how to see it.

Todaiji's Hokkedo Sutra Repository, an early Heian azekura three bays square beside the Hokkedo: how it is built, how it compares with Todaiji's other log stores.

Todaiji's Hokkedo Temizuya, a seven-by-four-bay ablution building of 1335 beside the Hokkedo, far larger than a usual water pavilion: its size, date and access.

Designed by Sekino Tadashi in 1902, this Important Cultural Property in Nara Park echoes the Byodo-in Phoenix Hall, mixing Japanese, Western, and Islamic design.

Nanmyōji's main hall, near Nara, is a plain late-Kamakura building (1275-1332) sheltering three older Heian-period Buddhas. Designated in 1906; viewing now limited.

Niu Shrine Main Hall in eastern Nara is a one-bay Kasuga-style hall roofed in cypress bark, dated by inscription to 1442, a rare Muromachi example near Enjo-ji.

An early-Edo farmhouse in Nara's Yoshino hills, Nishida House keeps medieval rafter framing and a front-parlor plan, named an Important Cultural Property in 1968.

Nara Christ Church, an Anglican church of 1930 beside Kofukuji, was built by Oki Kichitaro in a fully Japanese style with a tiled roof and coffered ceilings.

Hakusan Shrine Main Hall at Abe Monjuin, Nara, is a small late-Muromachi nagare-zukuri hall and Important Cultural Property, now visited as a matchmaking shrine.

The sutra repository of Hannyaji in Nara, a plain gabled building of the late Kamakura period behind the stone pagoda, is one of few medieval sutra stores left.

The thirteen-storey stone pagoda of Hannyaji in Nara, completed in 1253 in the Kamakura revival of the temple, is designated together with two old finials.

Hitomaro Shrine Main Hall in Kashihara, Nara, is a single-bay kasuga-zukuri sanctuary of 1345 honoring the poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, dated by a ridge-beam text.

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