Important Cultural Property of Tokyo
東 京 都 の 重 要 文 化 財Tokyo’s Important Cultural Properties — designated for their value to the nation’s cultural history.
A bokuseki scroll at the Tokyo National Museum: a verse brushed by the Southern Song Zen monk Beijian Jujian in a Suzhou pavilion in 1229, an early tea scroll.
A fragment of the Faju Piyu Jing copied in 4th-century China and dated to 359 CE by its colophon, among the oldest dated Chinese Buddhist manuscripts. Held in Tokyo.
Chinese poems and prose by Fujiwara no Tadamichi, the late-Heian chancellor. Copied in 1183 as war neared Kyoto, this early album is a key witness to his writing.
Volume 197 of the Hossō Ruirin, a Heian legal encyclopedia once said to fill over 200 volumes. This Kanazawa Bunko copy, made in 1304, is an Important Cultural Property.
Discover the Warikōdai Chawan, a 16th-century Korean tea bowl with a daringly cross-cut foot ring, designated an Important Cultural Property and housed at the Ebara Hatakeyama Museum in Shirokanedai, Tokyo. A masterpiece beloved by industrialist-tea master Hatakeyama Sokuō.
Explore the Important Cultural Property 'Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki (Kōan Version)' at the Tokyo National Museum — eight surviving painted scenes from a 1278 illustrated handscroll depicting the life, exile, and deification of Sugawara no Michizane, Japan's beloved patron deity of scholarship.
Discover "Old Monkey" (Rōen), a remarkable wood sculpture by Takamura Kōun designated as an Important Cultural Property of Japan. Created in 1893 for the Chicago World's Fair, this masterwork blends traditional Japanese wood carving with Western realism. Visit it at the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno.
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