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.
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.
Kamakura-period scenes from the Koan version of the Kitano Tenjin scrolls at the Tokyo National Museum, an Important Cultural Property since 1956.
Takamura Koun's 1893 carving of an old monkey clutching eagle feathers, made for the Chicago World's Fair, at the Tokyo National Museum; an Important Cultural Property since 1999.
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