Important Cultural Properties (Japan)

Shinshō-ji is a Shingon Buddhist temple located in Muroto, Kōchi, Japan. It is the 25th temple of the Shikoku Pilgrimage.

Shinto shrine in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

auditorium in Waseda University, Japan

bridge in Saga-city, Japan

Shinto shrine in Osaka Prefecture, Japan

dam in Ōita Prefecture, Japan

university

thumb|right|300px|Entrance to Jukō-in, a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji thumb|right|150px|Miyoshi Nagayoshi, painting on silk (1566); an Important Cultural Property

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is a fabric of Echigo, Japan on national Important Cultural Properties listing in 1955, and UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list since 2009. It is made from fine bast fiber from the ramie plant (Boehmeria nivea), also called hemp, although not directly related to cannabis hemp. After it is woven on a jibata backstrap loom (), the fabric is spread on snowfields (yuki-zarashi) where ultraviolet light from the sun creates ozone and bleaches it white. Echigo-jofu has even been found in the Shōsōin repository from over 1,200 years ago. The production of Echigo-jofu is recorded in

thumb|right|300px|The Main Hall, A National Treasure Chōkō-ji (朝光寺 Chōkōji) is a Buddhist temple, in Yashiro, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

is a Buddhist temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, Japan. It is the head temple of the Shingon Omuro sect. and also known under its mountain-name as . It is the 7th temple on the and is notable for the large number of designated cultural properties. The precincts of the temple were designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1934 with the area under protection expanded in 2011.

Shinto shrine in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

building in Tokyo, Japan

'''''' is a Buddhist temple located in the Azuchi neighborhood of the city of Ōmihachiman in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Its mountain name is . The temple belongs to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen.

, is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen Buddhism, located in the city of Yamanashi, Japan. Its main image is a statue of Shaka Nyōrai.

Shinto shrine in Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

thumb|250px|Amida-do, An Important Cultural Property thumb|250px|Main Hall

, is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. Located in the city of Kōshū, Yamanashi, Japan. It is the clan temple of the Takeda clan, noted Sengoku period warlords and rulers of Kai Province from the Muromachi period. Its main image is a statue of Shaka Nyōrai.

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, originally Kōgaku-an, is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. located in the city of Kōshū, Yamanashi, Japan. It is the head temple of one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school. Its main image is a statue of Shaka Nyōrai. The temple, including its famed Japanese garden is not open to the general public.

Shinto shrine in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Shinto shrine in Ibusuki, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan

Shinto shrine in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

Buddhist temple in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Shinto shrine in Ichinomiya, Chōsei District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

thumb|250px|Myōō-in, the tō|five-storied pagoda, A National Treasure thumb

thumb|right|300px|Kanzeon-ji's Asuka period bell, a National Treasure thumb|right|300px|Inventory of Kanzeon-ji from 905, now in Tokyo; a National Treasure thumb|200px|Avalokiteśvara

Shingon temple in Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, which is Temple 10 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage

Shinto shrine in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Shinto shrine in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

is a Buddhist temple of the Shingon-shu Buzan-ha sect in Yugawa, Kawanuma District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

canal lock in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan

thumb|250px|Ryogen-in Ryōgen-in (龍源院) is a subtemple of the Daitoku-ji Buddhist complex, located in Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It was constructed in 1502.

Shinto shrine in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Shinto shrine in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Buddhist temple in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

municipal archive

thumb|300px|Ōbai-in is an autonomous sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan, the headquarters of the Daitoku-ji school of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism. The Hondō (1586) and Kuri (1589) have been designated Important Cultural Properties. Momoyama period monochrome fusuma paintings of Seven hermits in a bamboo grove (16 panels), Landscape with figures (14 panels), and Geese (14 panels), by Unkoku Tōgan (1588), have also been designated Important Cultural Properties. The severed head of the statue of Sen no Rikyū, its position fatally regarded as hubristic by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was once kept

Shinto shrine in Hakui, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan

() was a Buddhist temple located in the Tomari neighborhood of the city of Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It belonged to the Rinzai school sect of Japanese Zen. The temple's full name is (). It was the Royal ancestral shrine of the kings of Second Shō dynasty of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. The site of the temple was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2025.

Shinto shrine in Gunma Prefecture, Japan

is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in northern Kantō region of Japan. The temple is famous for its bas-relief carvings on a cliff face. It belongs to the Tendai sect and its honzon is a statue of Senjū Kannon Bosatsu (Sahasrabhūja). The temple's full name is Tenkai-zan Jodo-in Ōya-ji (天開山 浄土院 大谷寺).The temple is the 19th stop on the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage route.

is a Buddhist temple located in the Motoki neighborhood of the city of Sakuragawa, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It belongs to the Buzan-branch of Shingon Buddhism and its honzon is a statue of Kannon Bosatsu named the , also popularly known as the . The temple is the 24th stop on the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage route.

Shinto shrine in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

five-volume treatise of c. 1605/6 by Taichū Ryōtei (袋中良定, 1552–1639) about religions in Ryukyu

Shinto shrine in Fuefuki, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan

The is a historical building and a wedding venue, located in Nakajima Park, Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. The building has previously been a hotel, guest house, event venue, and military camp. Currently, the Hōheikan is registered as one of the National Important Cultural Properties, and is used as a wedding venue, restaurant and meeting facility. The building is run by the Sapporo city.

sculpture museum in Hokkaidō, Japan

building in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

stone inscription in Japan

Shinto shrine in Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan

Buddhist temple in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan

Shinto shrine in Ichinomiya-Sumiyoshi, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan

Japanese relief sculptures

The old residence of is located on the island of Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Erected around 1819 by the local governor, it has been designated an Important Cultural Property as representative of the architecture of the Yaeyama Islands. The gardens are a Place of Scenic Beauty.

Shintō shrine in Tsuyama, Japan

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