Edo

An Important Cultural Property at the National Archives of Japan, compiled from castaway Daikokuya Kodayu's account of Russia, with illustrated scrolls and maps.

A late sword guard by Tsuchiya Yasuchika, signed Tōu. In pierced suaka copper, drying fishing nets meet a flight of plovers, touched with his rubbed gold inlay.

Hosokawa Family Documents at Tokyo's Eisei Bunko: the 2013 designation of 266 papers holds 58 Oda Nobunaga letters; a 2025 addition raised the total to 9,612.

A bokuseki scroll at the Tokyo National Museum: a verse brushed by the Southern Song Zen monk Beijian Jujian in a Suzhou pavilion in 1229, an early tea scroll.

Discover the Warikōdai Chawan, a 16th-century Korean tea bowl with a daringly cross-cut foot ring, designated an Important Cultural Property and housed at the Ebara Hatakeyama Museum in Shirokanedai, Tokyo. A masterpiece beloved by industrialist-tea master Hatakeyama Sokuō.

The Gotoh Museum in Setagaya, Tokyo, preserves the National Treasure 'Six Patriarch Shouldering a Pole,' a thirteenth-century Southern Song ink painting bearing the seal of the painter Chokuō. Rendered in the delicate mōryōga style with washes of pale ink and selective accents of dark ink, the scroll depicts Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism, at the life-changing moment he hears the Diamond Sutra. An inscription by Chan master Enkei Kōmon dates the work with unusual precision. Discover the history, artistic value, and visiting information for this masterpiece.

Held by the Nezu Museum in Tokyo's Minami-Aoyama district, Fishing Village at Sunset (attributed to Muqi) is a National Treasure and one of the supreme achievements of Southern Song ink painting. A scene from the famous Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, it bears the seal of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and is exhibited only rarely, every few years.

A 1710 farmhouse above the upper Akui River in Kamiyama Town, dated by its ridgepole tablet and designated in 1976 as the oldest six-room house plan in the district.

Built in 1630 opposite the thirteenth Shikoku pilgrimage temple, this three-bay shrine hall layers a dormer gable over a cusped one and keeps its polychrome carving.

The Great Pagoda of Kirihataji in Awa, Tokushima, built in 1618 at Sumiyoshi Taisha in Osaka and moved here in early Meiji, is a two-storey pagoda unique in Japan.

The Kannon hall of Jorokuji in Tokushima City, a hall of 1648 with two tiers of hipped tiled roof, is one of the four designated buildings of the temple.

The sutra repository of Jorokuji in Tokushima City, a former monks' hall of 1644 with an octagonal revolving sutra case, joined the other three on the list in 1998.

The main hall of Jorokuji in Tokushima City, built in 1629 as the abbot's quarters, is a broad hall under a tiled hip-and-gable roof, one of the temple's four.

Tokushima's oldest farmhouse, built in the early Edo period above the Anabuki River in Mima. The family here still weaves hemp cloth for imperial enthronements.

Built in 1756, the vermilion Anrakuji Temple Main Gate in Mima, Tokushima pairs orthodox Zen bracketing above with an unconventional lower storey. Registered 2009.

At the sixth Shikoku pilgrimage temple in Kamiita, Tokushima, the late Edo Anrakuji Temple Hojo has a thatched roof edged in tile and a raised lord's room.

Oizumido in Tsurugi, Tokushima, a mid-Edo hall of a local pilgrimage of eighty-eight sites, stands open on three sides under a weighty pyramidal roof of full tiles.

Kaizedo in Tsurugi, Tokushima, a hall of 1816 on a local pilgrimage of eighty-eight sites, is open on two sides under a pyramidal roof and reflects local faith.

The Kamamura Family Residence Main House in Mima, Tokushima, is an 1839 farmhouse with lime-plastered walls, a low loft and layered tile roofs, registered in 2007.

The Kamamura Family Residence Courtyard Earthen Wall in Mima, Tokushima, is a 16-meter tiled earthen wall of the late Edo period whose database entry is mixed up.