Important Cultural Property of Wakayama

A Kamakura landscape screen at Kongōbuji on Mt. Kōya, showing sacred Shingon sites linked to Kūkai. Made for the kanjō rite, an Important Cultural Property.

A Kamakura Important Cultural Property at Hōjuin on Mt. Kōya. This mandala maps the realm of the Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī, basis of an esoteric rite for long life.

An Important Cultural Property at Sainanin on Mt. Kōya, showing the guardian deity Daigensui Myōō. The Agency for Cultural Affairs records it as a Yuan Chinese work.

A Kamakura ICP at Seijōshin-in on Mt. Kōya. It depicts the origin legend of the Taima Mandala, woven overnight from lotus thread for the devout Chūjō-hime.

An Important Cultural Property at Seikeiin on Mount Koya, painted by the young Hasegawa Tohaku. Long the standard face of Takeda Shingen, the sitter is now disputed.

An Important Cultural Property owned by Manganji in Wakayama. This Kamakura portrait of Emperor Toba survived the temple's 2012 fire while on deposit in Kyoto.

An Important Cultural Property at Kongobuji. This Kamakura image depicts Niu Myojin, the goddess who by legend gave Mount Koya to Kukai, fusing Shinto and Buddhism.

An Important Cultural Property at Kongobuji, from Yuan-dynasty China. Tradition calls it Yakushi, the Medicine Buddha, but its official title names only a buddha.

A Kamakura silk painting from Shōchi-in on Mount Kōya: Mañjuśrī with eight topknots and raised sword, ringed by eight youths, the icon of a rite to avert disaster.

A Kamakura silk painting at Zenjū-in on Mount Kōya: the legend of Kūkai appearing as Dainichi Nyorai while debating the eight Buddhist schools before Emperor Saga.

A Kamakura silk painting at Kōdai-in on Mount Kōya: Bishamonten, armoured guardian of the north with a treasure pagoda, worshipped for protection and good fortune.

A Kamakura silk painting at Shōchi-in on Mount Kōya: Fugen Enmei, the esoteric bodhisattva of long life, central icon of a rite to extend lifespan and worldly gain.

An early Kamakura nirvana painting at Jōkyō-ji in Arida-gawa, Wakayama, breaking convention with a great canopy and dragon king, from the Myōe-linked Saishō-ji.

This Kamakura scroll at Gobo Jakujo-in on Mount Koya shows the Immovable Wisdom King in flame with three attendant boys, by tradition ascribed to the monk Gangyo.

The Red Fudo of Myoo-in on Mount Koya is one of Japan's Three Great Fudo, a painting linked by legend to the monk Enchin and carried into exile by Emperor Go-Daigo.

Painted by Kakue in 1315, this Kokoku-ji portrait honours Hotto Kokushi, the Zen monk who brought Kinzanji miso and the shakuhachi flute from Song China to Japan.

At Jison-in, the Women's Koya, this worn late-Heian scroll is the only single-figure Maitreya painting from the period, its halo ringed by forty-nine Buddhas.

An iron-bound wooden grain measure dated 1396, the Kōya masu set the rice tax for Mount Kōya's Kanshōfu Estate and is Japan's oldest standard measure of known date.

A 6,285-volume Korean Goryeo Buddhist canon at Koyasan, dedicated in 1599 by Ishida Mitsunari for his late mother and kept in an octagonal revolving bookcase.

An Important Cultural Property tachi by master swordsmith Sanenaga, one of the "Three Masters of Osafune," housed at the historic Nokami Hachimangu Shrine in Wakayama's Kimino Town.