Important Cultural Property of Shiga

A late Kamakura stone pagoda, 247 centimetres tall, in Hogonji's precinct on Chikubushima, with four Buddhas carved on its first tier. Important Cultural Property.

The late Kamakura-period main hall of the auxiliary Wakamiya Shrine at Mikami Shrine in Yasu, Shiga: a small nagare-style building with early, plain details.

The late Kamakura-period worship hall of Mikami Shrine in Yasu, Shiga, an Important Cultural Property whose roof and brackets echo the main hall it faces.

The two-storey romon gate of Mikami Shrine in Yasu, Shiga, dated by an ink inscription to about 1365, with unusual upper bracket sets and Zen-style beam ends.

The Former Miyaji Family Residence, a small Edo-period thatched farmhouse moved from Kunitomo in Nagahama to Azuchi, Shiga, keeps a well-preserved interior.

Myōōin, a Tendai retreat founded in 859 north of Ōtsu, had four halls and its terraced precinct designated Important Cultural Properties in 1993. Free entry.

Read over the body of Eigen-ji's founder the day after his death in 1367, this ink funeral elegy is an Important Cultural Property at the Shiga Zen temple he built.

An ink manuscript written at Eigen-ji in 1377, recording the Dharma address spoken as the Zen master Jakushitsu Genko was enshrined in the founder's hall.

Three scrolls at Eigen-ji, Shiga, recording the sermon and incense verse for the 33rd memorial of founder Jakushitsu Genko, held on his death anniversary in 1399.

A 1367 ink scroll preserves the verse chanted over incense at founder Jakushitsu Genkō's seventh-day rite, when his disciples resolved to keep Eigenji alive.

Two ink-on-paper scrolls hold a Zen sermon spoken at Eigenji in 1379 for the founder's thirteenth-anniversary memorial. An Important Cultural Property since 1936.

The Gyorekisho records the monk Enchin's 853 to 858 journey through Tang China. The Ishiyama-dera scroll is a Kamakura-period copy, an Important Cultural Property.

Held at Ishiyama-dera near Lake Biwa, this two-scroll ink-on-paper land register from the 1190s lists fields, areas, and dues from the medieval estate system.

Eigenji's founder Jakushitsu Genko died in 1367 after writing this order: return the land, scatter, leave nothing behind. His monks refused, and the temple stands.

An ink letter by Jakushitsu Genkō, the Zen monk who founded Eigen-ji in 1361. An Important Cultural Property since 1936, kept among the temple's treasures in Shiga.

Three ink-on-paper scrolls show how Jōrakuji in Konan, Shiga rebuilt after the 1360 lightning fire that razed it. These medieval appeals funded the temple's National Treasure main hall and pagoda.

At Onjō-ji survive 592 volumes of a Buddhist canon the shogun Ashikaga Takauji had copied in 1354, praying for Emperor Go-Daigo and the war dead of both sides.

A Heian document at Enryaku-ji, Mount Hiei, tied to the 805 transmission of the bodhisattva precepts from the master Daosui to Saichō, founder of Tendai.

This Important Cultural Property scroll at Renge-ji, Shiga, names Hōjō Nakatoki and the 432 men who died with him at Banba in 1333, as the Kamakura shogunate fell.

At Eigen-ji in Shiga, this scroll holds a poem brushed by Jakushitsu Genko, the Zen monk who founded the temple. A 14th-century Important Cultural Property.

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