Important Cultural Property of Yamaguchi

A silk sea pass issued in 1581 by Murakami Takeyoshi, with letters tracing the Noshima Murakami's path to Mori vassalage. Important Cultural Property, 2015.

An Important Cultural Property at Jōei-ji, Yamaguchi: a rare gold-rich portrait of the Zen abbot Ishō Enyū, painted about 1611 to 1614 by ink master Unkoku Tōgan.

A silk portrait of the ink master Sesshu by Unkoku Toeki, who claimed to be his fourth-generation heir, bearing a verse by a Daitoku-ji abbot. Designated in 2023.

This 16-meter handscroll at Hōfu's Mōri Museum is Unkoku Tōeki's copy of Sesshū's National Treasure landscape, designated an Important Cultural Property in 2023.

A paper scroll of 1200 listing the paddies and fields of Amidaji in Suō, with a roster of resident provincial officials, including forebears of the Ōuchi warlords.

A 1195 scroll fixing the boundaries of Miyano Estate in Suō, sealed by Chōgen, who rebuilt Nara's Great Buddha Hall. It ties a quiet farming valley to Tōdaiji.

The Takasu Family Documents are a collection of 127 historical documents spanning from 1351 to 1643, along with a rare Ming dynasty trade ship flag. Designated as an Important Cultural Property, this archive reveals the activities of the Takasu clan as deputy governors of Akama-ga-seki (Shimonoseki) under the Mōri, managing international trade between Japan and Ming China.

The Tetsuin (Iron Seal) inscribed with 'Tōdai-ji' is a Kamakura-period iron branding stamp used to certify timber for the reconstruction of Tōdai-ji temple in Nara. Preserved at Amida-ji Temple in Hōfu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, this Important Cultural Property bears witness to the massive medieval reconstruction effort led by the monk Chōgen over 800 years ago.

The Hilted Slender Bronze Sword (Yūhei Hosogata Dōken), excavated from the Ōyashiki Site in Nagato City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, is a rare middle Yayoi-period bronze artifact whose blade, hilt, and antenna-shaped pommel were cast as a single piece. One of only five such swords found in Japan—and the only one ever discovered on Honshu—it is designated an Important Cultural Property. Discover the story of its accidental 1901 unearthing, its mysterious link to the Yoshinogari Site, and the scenic Mukatsuku Peninsula that surrounds it.

Ima Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall in Yamaguchi joins gate and main hall on one axis, an early form of gongen-zukuri. A late Muromachi building designated in 1907.

Ima Hachiman Shrine Main Hall in Yamaguchi, said to be rebuilt in 1503, is a nagare-zukuri sanctuary with rare carvings of sun, moon and fish; designated in 1907.

Ima Hachiman Shrine Tower Gate in Yamaguchi has floored wings that make it a worship hall, a type copied across the region; designated 1907, Ouchi crests on top.

On the wooded summit of Mount Iwaki in Yamaguchi, this Shinto hall dates to 1469. Its hip-and-gable front, gable rear, and carved struts show late Muromachi craft.

The Ube City Watanabe-O Memorial Hall (1937), an Important Cultural Property by Murano Togo, was built by seven local firms to honor industrialist Watanabe Yusaku.

Thatched hall at Gachirinji in Tokuji, Yamaguchi, said to have been rebuilt by the monk Chogen in 1189 and thought to be the oldest building in the prefecture.

The house of the Kikuya merchants of Hagi, Yamaguchi, whose five buildings became an Important Cultural Property in 1974, among the oldest large townhouses in Japan.

Brick shaft kiln of 1883 built by Onoda Cement, Japan's first private cement firm, in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi; the Tokkuri Kiln is the only such kiln left.

Built in 1906, the Former British Consulate at Shimonoseki is Japan's oldest surviving consulate building, a Queen Anne design by British architect William Cowan.

The golden hall of the Suo provincial temple in Hofu, Yamaguchi, built in 1779 by the Mori lord, is a rare surviving great hall on its original Nara-period stones.

The Shikairo of 1879 at Murotsu, Yamaguchi, a four-storey plastered house built for a shipping agent, is decorated with plaster dragons and coloured glass.

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