Kamakura

A Kamakura-period painting in several scrolls at Shojuraigoji in Otsu, Shiga. A copy of the work itself carries a prefectural listing entirely of its own.

A Tang-period text owned by Enryakuji in Shiga Prefecture. Its own country field reads China, while its own period field gives the Tang dynasty of it.

Discover the Ichiji Kinrin Image, a Kamakura-period silk painting designated an Important Cultural Property in 1940 and privately preserved in Ichinobe, Higashiomi, Shiga. Explore the mystical iconography of this supreme esoteric Buddhist deity and the rich cultural heritage of eastern Ōmi.

The stone thirteen-storey pagoda of Anyoji in Ritto, Shiga, made at the end of the Kamakura period, survives today with its ninth, tenth and eleventh tiers missing.

The Kasuga branch shrine at Ikuwa Shrine in Yasu, Shiga, a small nagare-style hall of the late Kamakura period, is thought to be older than the main hall itself.

The late Kamakura belfry of Ishiyama-dera in Otsu, an Important Cultural Property since 1907, with a white skirted base, bark roof and a Heian bell rung from below.

The National Treasure tahoto of Ishiyama-dera in Otsu, dated by inscription to 1194, is the oldest tahoto with a known year. Its form, Kaikei's Dainichi, visiting.

Nine-storied stone pagoda inscribed with an era name of 1256 to 1257 at Enkoji in Yasu, Shiga, rising in front of the temple's Kamakura-period main hall.

Main hall of 1257 at Enkoji in Yasu, Shiga, restored in 1956 to its rare gabled form with a long front eave that makes the temple look almost like a shrine.

Ono Shrine's tower gate in Ritto, Shiga is the oldest surviving romon at any shrine or temple in the prefecture, an early-Kamakura building in late Heian style.

Kagami Shrine Hokyoin Pagoda, a late Kamakura stone tower 210 cm tall on the Saikoji temple site in Ryuo, Shiga, is carved with facing peacocks and corner owls.

The Kakesho Stone Pagoda in Moriyama, Shiga, a stone hoto of the late Kamakura period, has a round body under a square roof stone and was designated in 1925.

Kasuga Shrine Main Hall in Otsu, built in 1319, is not Kasuga-zukuri but a rare two-bay hip-and-gable hall with carved kaerumata. Designated in 1902. How to visit.

A granite five-storied pagoda of 1246 stands unattended beside Route 477 in Omihachiman, Shiga. Its dated inscription anchors the chronology of Omi stone carving.

A small stone pagoda in the precinct of Saimyoji in Moriyama, Shiga, credited by tradition to regent Hojo Tokiyori. Now leaning, it is viewed from a few paces back.

The late Kamakura three-storied pagoda of Saimyoji in Kora, Shiga, a National Treasure since 1952, its first storey painted inside in brilliant colour.

The Kamakura main hall of Saimyoji in Kora, Shiga, a National Treasure since 1952, enlarged from five to seven bays square and a representative Japanese-style hall.

Shina Shrine's main hall in Kusatsu, built in 1298, keeps a ridgepole inscription naming its carpenter. A wind-god hall with Kamakura brackets and white plaster.

An unsigned granite hokyointo at Jakushoji in Hino, Shiga, dated to the late Kamakura period by its upright corner ornaments, carved Buddhas and lotus base.

A late Kamakura stone hoto at Shoboji in Hino, Shiga, dated by its own inscription to 1315 and an Important Cultural Property since 1960. Where to find it and visit.