Important Cultural Property of Tokushima
徳 島 県 の 重 要 文 化 財Tokushima’s Important Cultural Properties — designated for their value to the nation’s cultural history.
A 1710 farmhouse above the upper Akui River in Kamiyama Town, dated by its ridgepole tablet and designated in 1976 as the oldest six-room house plan in the district.
Built in 1630 opposite the thirteenth Shikoku pilgrimage temple, this three-bay shrine hall layers a dormer gable over a cusped one and keeps its polychrome carving.
The main hall of Ushihiko Shrine in Naruto, Tokushima, built in 1599, is a large three-bay nagare-style hall thought to be the oldest shrine hall in the prefecture.
The Great Pagoda of Kirihataji in Awa, Tokushima, built in 1618 at Sumiyoshi Taisha in Osaka and moved here in early Meiji, is a two-storey pagoda unique in Japan.
The Kannon hall of Jorokuji in Tokushima City, a hall of 1648 with two tiers of hipped tiled roof, is one of the four designated buildings of the temple.
The sutra repository of Jorokuji in Tokushima City, a former monks' hall of 1644 with an octagonal revolving sutra case, joined the other three on the list in 1998.
The main gate of Jorokuji in Tokushima City, a late Muromachi two-storey gate of three bays and three passages, is the oldest of the four designated buildings.
The main hall of Jorokuji in Tokushima City, built in 1629 as the abbot's quarters, is a broad hall under a tiled hip-and-gable roof, one of the temple's four.
Built around 1928 in Tokushima for a doctor who had studied in Berlin, this three-storey concrete house has a viewing tower, a wave-plan terrace and mustard walls.
Tokushima's oldest farmhouse, built in the early Edo period above the Anabuki River in Mima. The family here still weaves hemp cloth for imperial enthronements.
The Kannonji and Shikiji finds from Tokushima, designated in 2015, are ancient wooden tablets and pottery from the Awa provincial office, with an Analects text.
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