Important Cultural Property of Yamanashi

Eight halls built 1736-1753 with donations gathered by the pilgrim leader Murakami Kosei, from the worship hall to a lava-basin water pavilion, designated in 2017.

A Meiji-period hydroelectric installation in Yamanashi Prefecture. Its own structures there are recorded under two quite different owner names even now.

Jomon-period finds from Minami-Alps City in Yamanashi Prefecture. Their own quantity field there reads as just a single lot, with no number given at all.

An iron sword guard carved with shore pines and plovers by Tsuchiya Yasuchika, a leading master of Edo metalwork. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1955.

An Important Cultural Property in Yamanashi, this iron sword guard by Hayashi Matashichi pierces cherry blossoms and nine-luminary crests, the two Hosokawa emblems.

Rebuilt by Takeda Shingen in 1558 at the site where Kai Province's first-ranked shrine began, this cypress-bark hall carries helmets carved on its struts.

Designated in 1935, this one-bay Momoyama sanctuary in central Kofu keeps painted carving and metal-fitted doors. Its name recalls a legend of draining the basin.

The kuri at Unpoji in Koshu, Yamanashi, held the kitchen and living quarters: a long thatched, gable-entry building of the early Edo period, the widest of the four halls.

Unpoji's shoin in Koshu, Yamanashi, is a mid-Edo Important Cultural Property of 1716: a hipped, thatched residential hall behind the garden, the newest of its four.

The Niomon at Unpoji in Koshu, Yamanashi, is a late-Muromachi three-bay eight-legged gate, copper-roofed and flanked by two Nio guardian kings on the stone approach.

Unpoji's main hall in Koshu, Yamanashi, is a late-Muromachi Important Cultural Property with a cypress-bark hip-and-gable roof and a curved karahafu worship porch.

Rebuilt by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1606 after Erinji burned, this vermilion four-legged gate is the temple's oldest building and is free to walk through today.

On Mt. Yumura in Kōfu, Entaku-ji's hipped-roof Jizō-dō shelters a stone Jizō. An Important Cultural Property since 1949, its soot-black interior rewards a visit.

A late-Kamakura Important Cultural Property in Kosuge, Yamanashi, this hall preserves rare Heian residential carpentry and shelters a hidden Nyoirin Kannon.

Rebuilt by Takeda Shingen in 1561 as the main hall and moved aside in 1594, this small nagare-zukuri hall is the oldest building at the shrine, designated in 1907.

Built as the main hall by Asano Ujishige in 1594 and moved west in 1615, this nagare-zukuri hall keeps old timbers, fine door carving and kaerumata struts.

Built in 1615 by Torii Narutsugu, the irimoya-roofed main hall behind the worship hall is praised for lacquer, carving and gilt fittings equal to Momoyama work.

Kubo Hachiman Shrine Shinmon Gate, dated to 1511, is a bark-roofed four-legged gate facing east, designated together with the arched stone bridge set in front of it.

Wakamiya Hachiman Worship Hall at Kubo Hachiman Shrine, built in 1536, is a plain hip-and-gable hall about twenty years older than the long main worship hall nearby.

Wakamiya Hachiman Main Hall, an auxiliary sanctuary at Kubo Hachiman Shrine in Yamanashi, is a three-bay nagare-zukuri hall thought to be the oldest in the grounds.

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