Momoyama
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Zoku Hokanshu, a National Treasure on Mount Koya, binds 77 scrolls and 6 booklets of medieval documents, from imperial edicts to a farmer's katakana petition.
A Momoyama tachi signed Kunihiro, generally identified as the work of Horikawa Kunihiro, owned by Kongobu-ji on Mt Koya and shown at times in its Reihokan museum.
Four Nō costumes from a shrine below Mount Kōya: two embroidered hunting robes, a chōken and a happi, recorded in a 1610 diary, exceptionally rare Momoyama work.
A National Treasure at Kongōbu-ji on Mount Kōya, the Hōkanshū is 54 scrolls of some 692 medieval documents, including an autograph letter by Minamoto no Yoshitsune.
The largest of Kōyasan's three National Treasure document collections, holding 167 scrolls and 9 volumes, from imperial decrees to a peasants' petition in katakana.
Forged by Kunihiro in 1604 for a Kamigamo Shrine priest in Kyoto, this Important Cultural Property belonged to Ōyamazumi Shrine until it was stolen in 1942.