Kamakura

The Ishidoji Temple Five-Ring Pagodas in Higashiomi, Shiga: two granite gorinto dated 1304 and 1349, one naming a nembutsu fellowship. Designated in 1960.

The Ishidoji Temple Hoto Pagoda in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a late Kamakura stone tower inscribed 1302, with carved doors and lotus panels. Designated in 1960.

Seven-storied stone pagoda dated 1318 at Shakuninji in Higashiomi, Shiga, a temple said to mark where the Man'yoshu poet Yamabe no Akahito spent his last days.

The Ōki Shrine main hall inside Daihō Shrine in Rittō was built in 1283 and designated an Important Cultural Property in 1906, the oldest hall of its type.

The early Kamakura main hall of Chojuji in Konan, Shiga, a National Treasure since 1953, a pure Japanese-style hall preserving old features to its roof framing.

The late Kamakura west main hall of Namura Shrine in Ryuo, Shiga, a National Treasure since 1955, with a lattice-fronted front room and fine frog-leg struts.

The main hall of Hiyoshi Shrine in Yasu, Shiga, from the late Kamakura period, is a small one-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, a rare medieval shrine.

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 late Kamakura main hall of Mikami Shrine in Yasu, Shiga, a National Treasure since 1952, built like a Buddhist hall with a hip-and-gable roof and plaster walls.

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.

A Tang hemp kesa at Enryakuji, said to have been brought from China by Saicho, a National Treasure since 1966 and a rare surviving example in hemp.

Compiled in 543 and lost in China, the Yupian survives only in Tang manuscripts in Japan. This National Treasure at Ishiyama-dera is volume 27's latter half.

At Jinsho-ji in Shiga, sixteen copper trays cut with gold-and-silver openwork florals once held petals scattered at Buddhist rites. A peak of Japanese metalwork.

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.

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 Ishiyama-dera in Shiga, the Shaku Makaen Ron is a rare Tang-dynasty manuscript of a commentary on the Awakening of Faith, kept in five folding booklets.

On Lake Biwa's north shore, Sugaura's villagers kept 1,281 documents recording their medieval self-rule and land disputes. They became a National Treasure in 2018.