National Treasures of Yamaguchi
山 口 県 の 国 宝Yamaguchi’s national treasures — properties designated kokuhō for their exceptional value to the nation.
Discover Kozan-ji Temple's 1320 National Treasure Buddha Hall in Shimonoseki - Japan's oldest confirmed Zen-style architecture where samurai Takasugi Shinsaku launched the uprising that sparked the Meiji Restoration. Experience 700 years of architectural excellence and revolutionary history.
Discover Japan's most beautiful pagoda at Ruriko-ji Temple in Yamaguchi. This 580-year-old National Treasure offers world-class architecture, stunning seasonal beauty, evening illumination, and free admission—all without the crowds of Kyoto and Nara.
Discover the Kiku-zukuri Koshigatana, a Japanese National Treasure featuring exquisite chrysanthemum metalwork and a Kamakura-period blade attributed to the Taima school. Housed at the Mōri Museum in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Discover the magnificent Four Seasons Landscape Scroll by Sesshu, a 16-meter masterpiece at Mouri Museum. Experience Japan's greatest Zen painter's work amidst beautiful gardens in Hofu, Yamaguchi.
Discover the National Treasure main hall of Sumiyoshi Shrine in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi. Built in 1370, this rare nine-bay nagare-zukuri structure is one of Japan's Three Great Sumiyoshi shrines and a masterpiece of Muromachi-period sacred architecture.
The Inaba Go, a National Treasure held by the Kashiwabara Art Museum in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, is a Nanbokuchō-period blade by the master Gō Yoshihiro. It passed from the Inaba family to Tokugawa Ieyasu, then to Yūki Hideyasu and the Tsuyama Matsudaira clan, and was designated a National Treasure in 1951. Only eleven authenticated Gō Yoshihiro swords exist, making this gold-inlaid blade one of Japan's most celebrated meibutsu swords.
The eighth volume of the Koyagire, the oldest surviving copy of Japan's first imperial poetry anthology and one of only three left whole, at the Mori Museum in Hofu.
Held at the Mōri Museum in Hōfu, this single handscroll is Japan's oldest dated copy of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, brushed and annotated in 1073.
Housed at the Kikkawa Museum in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, this National Treasure tachi was forged in the early Kamakura period by Tamenji of the Ko-Aoe school. Carried by Kikkou Kojiro Tomokane, ancestor of the Kikkawa clan, at the 1200 Battle of Kitsunegasaki against the Kajiwara clan — an event recorded in the Azuma Kagami — the blade survives in remarkably pristine condition together with its original black-lacquered leather-wrapped mounting.
A National Treasure at Amidaji in Hofu, this 1197 cast-iron pagoda was made for Chogen's rebuilding of Todaiji and enshrines a crystal stupa holding a Buddha relic.
More from Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.
The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.
Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.