Meiji

Just 24.2 cm tall, this National Treasure at Tokyo's Nezu Museum is a peak of Southern Song bird-and-flower painting, attributed to Li Anzhong and shown only rarely.

Painted by the Song court artist Li Di and dated 1197, this National Treasure pairs a white and a red cotton rose, one flower as it shifts colour across a day.

A fan-shaped Song-dynasty painting of one apple branch, its blossoms ranging from bud to full bloom. Now a National Treasure at Tokyo's Ebara Hatakeyama Museum.

A National Treasure at the Tokyo National Museum: a Southern Song three-scroll set by Liang Kai of a gaunt Buddha and snowy peaks, held by the Ashikaga shoguns.

A Southern Song scroll attributed to Ma Yuan, this National Treasure shows a lone traveler hurrying under a folded umbrella as wind and rain cross towering peaks.

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.

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.

Raised on a dressed-stone podium in Mima, Tokushima, the 1911 Anrakuji Temple Bell Tower has curved leaning posts, a coffered ceiling and a shachi on its ridge.

The Otanigawa Dam of about 1889 in Mima, Tokushima, a curved stone dam said to be planned by de Rijke for the Yoshino River works, still works and serves as a park.

The Kamamura Family Residence North Well in Mima, Tokushima, is a mid-Meiji well behind the main house, with a curb of four blue-stone slabs and a 3.3-meter shaft.

The Kamamura Family Residence Storehouse in Mima, Tokushima, is an 1891 two-storey earthen storehouse split into rice store and storeroom, its walls left unwhitened.

The Kamamura Family Residence Barn in Mima, Tokushima, built around 1897, housed people and animals under one roof and stands on a stone wall above the paddies.

The Kamamura Family Residence East Well in Mima, Tokushima, is a mid-Meiji stone well 7 meters deep, with a blue-stone curb and a washing area framed by curbstones.

The Kamamura Family Residence Bathhouse in Mima, Tokushima, is a mid-Meiji hut of 5.1 square meters, roofed in heavy tile, with a bath and a privy inside.

The Kamamura Family Residence Toilet in Mima, Tokushima, is a mid-Meiji privy with two stalls and a urinal, doors on the north and a collection hatch on the south.

The gate of Ganshoji in Mima, Tokushima, an eight-pillared gate of the Meiji period, is of original design, with a bell-shaped central arch and plant-motif ornament.

The former Kawaguchi post office in Miyoshi, Tokushima, built in 1905, joins a painted Western-style office and a latticed Japanese house in a T beside the river.

Built in 1901 for a family of herbal doctors, this house held a dispensary at the front. It is the only one of 7 Kitamuro structures registered as a model of design.

The oldest Kitamuro structure, this 1878 storehouse kept raw herbal ingredients behind plaster sealed to the eaves, with an interior lined in iron sheet.