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[[File:Hoitsu-autumngrasses.JPG|right|thumb|320px|"Spring and Autumn Flowering Grasses," folding screens, by [[Sakai Hoitsu|Sakai Hôitsu]] ([[Tokyo National Museum]])]]
 
[[File:Hoitsu-autumngrasses.JPG|right|thumb|320px|"Spring and Autumn Flowering Grasses," folding screens, by [[Sakai Hoitsu|Sakai Hôitsu]] ([[Tokyo National Museum]])]]
 
[[File:Hibo-kannon.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Kano Hogai|Kanô Hôgai]], ''[[Kannon]] as Compassionate Mother'' (''[[Hibo Kannon]]''), 1883. Freer Gallery of Art<ref>While the Freer piece seen here is permanently housed outside of Japan, and is therefore not an Important Cultural Property, an earlier version of the same work, held today by the Tokyo University of the Arts, does bear that designation.</ref>]]
 
[[File:Hibo-kannon.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Kano Hogai|Kanô Hôgai]], ''[[Kannon]] as Compassionate Mother'' (''[[Hibo Kannon]]''), 1883. Freer Gallery of Art<ref>While the Freer piece seen here is permanently housed outside of Japan, and is therefore not an Important Cultural Property, an earlier version of the same work, held today by the Tokyo University of the Arts, does bear that designation.</ref>]]
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[[File:Ueno-karamon.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The Karamon gate of [[Ueno Toshogu|Ueno Tôshôgû]]]]
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[[File:Akamon.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The Akamon ("red gate") which now serves as a gate to the [[University of Tokyo]] main campus]]
 
*[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] (''Bunkachô''):
 
*[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] (''Bunkachô''):
 
**''[[Saigyo Hoshi|Saigyô Hôshi]] gyôjô-e'', handscroll painting by [[Tawaraya Sotatsu|Tawaraya Sôtatsu]]
 
**''[[Saigyo Hoshi|Saigyô Hôshi]] gyôjô-e'', handscroll painting by [[Tawaraya Sotatsu|Tawaraya Sôtatsu]]
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*[[Meiji Gakuin University]]: Imbrie Pavilion (rep. of Meiji Western-style missionary architecture)<ref>[http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/guide/imbrie_en.html Imbrie Pavilion], Meiji Gakuin University website.</ref>
 
*[[Meiji Gakuin University]]: Imbrie Pavilion (rep. of Meiji Western-style missionary architecture)<ref>[http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/guide/imbrie_en.html Imbrie Pavilion], Meiji Gakuin University website.</ref>
 
*Mitsui Corporation Main Building (''Mitsui honkan'')
 
*Mitsui Corporation Main Building (''Mitsui honkan'')
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*[[National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo]]:
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**[[Harada Naojiro|Harada Naojirô]] - "Kannon Riding a Dragon," oil on canvas
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**[[Wada Sanzo|Wada Sanzô]] - "South Wind", oil on canvas
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**[[Yorozu Tetsugoro|Yorozu Tetsugorô]] - "Nude Beauty," oil on canvas
 
*[[Nezu Museum]]:
 
*[[Nezu Museum]]:
 
**[[Mu Qi]] - hanging scroll painting, "Sparrows on Bamboo in the Rain"<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Mu Qi]] - hanging scroll painting, "Sparrows on Bamboo in the Rain"<ref name=lacma/>
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**Akamon ("Red Gate"), former gate of the [[Kaga Edo mansion]] (Hongô campus)
 
**Akamon ("Red Gate"), former gate of the [[Kaga Edo mansion]] (Hongô campus)
 
**Former [[Maeda clan|Maeda Family]] Main Residence (Komaba campus)
 
**Former [[Maeda clan|Maeda Family]] Main Residence (Komaba campus)
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**Diary of [[Uwai Akitane|Uwai Kakken]] (held at [[Shiryohensanjo|Shiryôhensanjo]])
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**''Daimyôji monjo'', records of [[Daimyo-ji|Daimyô-ji]] temple in [[Osumi province|Ôsumi province]] (held at [[Shiryohensanjo|Shiryôhensanjo]])
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**''Gumaiki'', diary of [[Sanjo Sanefusa|Sanjô Sanefusa]], and ''Go-Gumaiki'', diary of [[Sanjo Kintada|Sanjô Kintada]] (held at [[Shiryohensanjo|Shiryôhensanjo]])
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**Documents related to the [[Hayashi clan]] (held at [[Shiryohensanjo|Shiryôhensanjo]])
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**Documents related to the Hishijima family of [[Satsuma province]] (held at [[Shiryohensanjo|Shiryôhensanjo]])
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**''Jien oshô musôki'', a diary of the monk [[Jien]] (held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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**Documents related to [[Kondo Juzo|Kondô Jûzô]] (held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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**''Minkoku sappu'', a Ming document granting official office to [[Maeda Geni|Maeda Gen'i]] (held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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**''Nakanoin ipponki'', a diary of [[Nakanoin Michifuyu]] (held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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**''Namu Amida butsu sazenshû'', diary of the monk [[Chogen|Chôgen]] (held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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**Documents related to the [[Nikaido clan|Nikaidô clan]] (held at [[Shiryohensanjo|Shiryôhensanjo]])
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**''[[Sappan kyuki zatsuroku|Sappan kyûki zatsuroku]]'' (held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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**''Satsuma no kuni Hioki Hongô shimoji chûbun ezu'', a 14th c. Kyushu map (held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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**''Shôshû shibun'', a [[1556]] document sent by [[Ming dynasty|Ming]] envoy [[Jiang Zhou]] regarding the ''[[wako|wakô]]'' (held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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**''Shûgaishô'' (medieval encyclopedia, held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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**''Sanetaka kôki'', diary of [[Sanjonichi Sanetaka|Sanjônishi Sanetaka]] (held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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**''Taiki'', diary of [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] (held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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**Diary of [[Uwai Akitane|Uwai Kakken]] (held at Shiryôhensanjo)
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*''Wakamanajoshû'' (collection of prefaces to ''[[waka]]'' poetry collection, held at Shiryôhensanjo)
 
*[[Waseda University]]: Ôkuma Auditorium
 
*[[Waseda University]]: Ôkuma Auditorium
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*[[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]]: Sangedatsumon ''sanmon'' gate; Taitokuin mausoleum gate; Yûshôin mausoleum Nitenmon gate
  
 
===Kanagawa Prefecture===
 
===Kanagawa Prefecture===
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**Gekkaden, formerly of [[Fushimi castle]], built [[1603]] by [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]
 
**Gekkaden, formerly of [[Fushimi castle]], built [[1603]] by [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]
 
**Pagoda - formerly of [[Tomyo-ji|Tômyô-ji]], [[Muromachi period]], oldest pagoda in the Kantô
 
**Pagoda - formerly of [[Tomyo-ji|Tômyô-ji]], [[Muromachi period]], oldest pagoda in the Kantô
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**Rinshunkaku -  summer home for [[Kishu Tokugawa|Kishû Tokugawa]] family head [[Tokugawa Yorinobu]], [[1649]], Wakayama
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**Rinshunkaku -  summer home for [[Kishu Tokugawa clan|Kishû Tokugawa]] family head [[Tokugawa Yorinobu]], [[1649]], Wakayama
 
**Shunsôrô tearoom built by [[Oda Urakusai]]
 
**Shunsôrô tearoom built by [[Oda Urakusai]]
 
**Former main hall of Tômyô-ji, Muromachi period, Kyoto
 
**Former main hall of Tômyô-ji, Muromachi period, Kyoto
 
*[[Sogen-ji (Kanagawa)|Sôgen-ji]], Twelve Heavenly Generals ([[Kamakura period]] sculptures, representative of [[Unkei]]'s style)
 
*[[Sogen-ji (Kanagawa)|Sôgen-ji]], Twelve Heavenly Generals ([[Kamakura period]] sculptures, representative of [[Unkei]]'s style)
 
*Former [[Yokohama Specie Bank]] Headquarters - example of Meiji period architecture
 
*Former [[Yokohama Specie Bank]] Headquarters - example of Meiji period architecture
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*[[Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall]] - example of Taishô period architecture
  
 
===Shizuoka Prefecture===
 
===Shizuoka Prefecture===
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*[[Honpo-ji|Honpô-ji]] - two portraits by [[Hasegawa Tohaku|Hasegawa Tôhaku]] of Buddhist priests
 
*[[Honpo-ji|Honpô-ji]] - two portraits by [[Hasegawa Tohaku|Hasegawa Tôhaku]] of Buddhist priests
 
*[[Kodai-ji|Kôdai-ji]] - various buildings, incl. Shigure-tei tea room
 
*[[Kodai-ji|Kôdai-ji]] - various buildings, incl. Shigure-tei tea room
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*Kyoto University Museum:
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**Fake letter from King of Korea to Japan, forged by [[Tsushima han]], [[1607]]
 
*[[Manpuku-ji]] - various buildings
 
*[[Manpuku-ji]] - various buildings
 
*[[Nanzen-ji]] [[tatchu|sub-temple]] [[Tenju-an]]:
 
*[[Nanzen-ji]] [[tatchu|sub-temple]] [[Tenju-an]]:
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**[[Dong Qichang]] - handscroll paining, "The Pan'gu Farewell"<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Dong Qichang]] - handscroll paining, "The Pan'gu Farewell"<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Wang Wei]] (attr.) - handscroll painting, "Fu Sheng Transmitting the Classic"<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Wang Wei]] (attr.) - handscroll painting, "Fu Sheng Transmitting the Classic"<ref name=lacma/>
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===Wakayama Prefecture===
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*[[Kishu Toshogu Shrine|Kishû Tôshôgû Shrine]] - seven structures
  
 
===Okayama Prefecture===
 
===Okayama Prefecture===
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===Hiroshima Prefecture===
 
===Hiroshima Prefecture===
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[[File:Otake-jutaku.JPG|right|thumb|320px|The Ôta family house (left) and Chôsôtei (right) in [[Tomonoura]]]]
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[[File:Otake-jutaku.JPG|right|thumb|400px|The Ôta family house (left) and Chôsôtei (right) in [[Tomonoura]]]]
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*[[Abuto Kannon]] (Fukuyama)
 
*Fushimi yagura (tower) and Sujigane-gomon (gate) at [[Fukuyama castle]].
 
*Fushimi yagura (tower) and Sujigane-gomon (gate) at [[Fukuyama castle]].
 
*Ôta family house (former Nakamura family house) and Chôsôtei lodgings in [[Tomonoura]]; merchant home where [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]], various ''daimyô'', and ''[[kuge]]'' stayed at times.
 
*Ôta family house (former Nakamura family house) and Chôsôtei lodgings in [[Tomonoura]]; merchant home where [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]], various ''daimyô'', and ''[[kuge]]'' stayed at times.
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===Ehime Prefecture===
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*[[Uwajima castle]]: ''tenshu''
  
 
===Kôchi Prefecture===
 
===Kôchi Prefecture===
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*Ichi-no-[[torii]] at [[Hakozaki Shrine]], [[1609]]
 
*Ichi-no-[[torii]] at [[Hakozaki Shrine]], [[1609]]
 
*Letters from [[Nguyen Hoang]] to [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] ([[1591]]) and [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] ([[1601]]), [[Kyushu National Museum]]
 
*Letters from [[Nguyen Hoang]] to [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] ([[1591]]) and [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] ([[1601]]), [[Kyushu National Museum]]
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===Nagasaki Prefecture===
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*Nagasaki Prefectural Research Center for History of Tsushima:
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**Seating chart for shogunal audience addressing the [[Yanagawa Affair]] ([[1635]]/3/11).
  
 
===Kumamoto Prefecture===
 
===Kumamoto Prefecture===
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===Kagoshima Prefecture===
 
===Kagoshima Prefecture===
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[[File:Nariakira-photo.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Daguerreotype photograph of Nariakira taken by [[Ichiki Shiro|Ichiki Shirô]] in [[1857]]. The oldest known surviving photograph by a Japanese photographer. On display at the [[Museum of the Meiji Restoration]]]]
 
*Three [[bronze mirrors]] held at [[Nitta Hachiman Shrine]], [[Satsumasendai]]  
 
*Three [[bronze mirrors]] held at [[Nitta Hachiman Shrine]], [[Satsumasendai]]  
 
*Main Building (''honkan'') at [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]], [[1865]]
 
*Main Building (''honkan'') at [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]], [[1865]]
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*[[Bridge of Nations Bell]] - collection of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum
 
*[[Bridge of Nations Bell]] - collection of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum
 
*[[Engaku-ji (Okinawa)|Engaku-ji]] - named a National Treasure in 1933; destroyed in 1945. Rebuilt gates and bridge named Important Cultural Property in 1975. Former temple bell (cast c. [[1495]]-[[1496]]), and a [[1697]] recreation of that bell both survive and have both been designated.
 
*[[Engaku-ji (Okinawa)|Engaku-ji]] - named a National Treasure in 1933; destroyed in 1945. Rebuilt gates and bridge named Important Cultural Property in 1975. Former temple bell (cast c. [[1495]]-[[1496]]), and a [[1697]] recreation of that bell both survive and have both been designated.
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*Documents and objects related to the [[Ie udun]] family. Designated in 2019.
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*[[Ie udun tomb]], Shuri
 
*Collection of [[Kamakura Yoshitaro|Kamakura Yoshitarô's]] photographs from his survey of Okinawan arts; held by Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts.
 
*Collection of [[Kamakura Yoshitaro|Kamakura Yoshitarô's]] photographs from his survey of Okinawan arts; held by Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts.
 
*''[[Magiri-zu]]'' maps, held by Okinawa Prefectural Museum
 
*''[[Magiri-zu]]'' maps, held by Okinawa Prefectural Museum

Latest revision as of 07:33, 21 October 2024

Sign at Kan'ei-ji in Tokyo, bearing the Bunkachô logo, and identifying the site as containing Important Cultural Properties.
  • System Established: 1950
  • Japanese: 重要文化財 (juuyou bunkazai)

In 1950, the Japanese government created a new system of cultural heritage, dividing the category of National Treasures - the top tier of sites and objects designated as being of exceptional cultural and historical importance - into an upper tier of National Treasures and a lower tier of Important Cultural Properties.

Important Cultural Properties are more numerous than National Treasures, and are generally considered to be of somewhat less considerable cultural or historical importance. There are currently approximately 12,821[1] objects & structures registered as Important Cultural Properties, identified by the Bunkachô (Agency for Cultural Affairs) logo, a stylized impression of a pair of hands holding up roof tiles.[2]

Selected List of Important Cultural Properties

Hokkaidô

Miyagi Prefecture

Ishikawa Prefecture

Shima teahouse in Kanazawa

Chiba Prefecture

Tokyo

Symphony Hall of the Tokyo Music School
"Spring and Autumn Flowering Grasses," folding screens, by Sakai Hôitsu (Tokyo National Museum)
Kanô Hôgai, Kannon as Compassionate Mother (Hibo Kannon), 1883. Freer Gallery of Art[3]
The Karamon gate of Ueno Tôshôgû
The Akamon ("red gate") which now serves as a gate to the University of Tokyo main campus

Kanagawa Prefecture

A view of Sankeien in Yokohama, with the pagoda visible in the distance

Shizuoka Prefecture

Aichi Prefecture

The southeast corner tower at Nagoya castle

Shiga Prefecture

  • Hikone castle - various buildings, including Ninomaru Sawaguchitamon-yagura and stables (umaya). Main tenshu is a National Treasure.
  • Hôshû-kai, Takatsuki Town - various documents and paintings associated with Amenomori Hôshû[6]

Nara Prefecture

Kyoto Prefecture

Windows of the upper story of Clarke Memorial Hall at Dôshisha University
Pagoda at Ninna-ji, Kyoto

Osaka Prefecture

Wakayama Prefecture

Okayama Prefecture

Hiroshima Prefecture

The Ôta family house (left) and Chôsôtei (right) in Tomonoura

Ehime Prefecture

Kôchi Prefecture

  • Kôchi castle: a number of buildings, including the tenshu, Kaitokukan (shoin-zukuri style daimyô residence), East and West tamon yagura, Kokutetsu-mon, Kurogane-mon, and Roka-mon gates.

Fukuoka Prefecture

The ichi-no-torii ("first gate") at Hakozaki Shrine in Fukuoka

Nagasaki Prefecture

  • Nagasaki Prefectural Research Center for History of Tsushima:

Kumamoto Prefecture

Kagoshima Prefecture

Daguerreotype photograph of Nariakira taken by Ichiki Shirô in 1857. The oldest known surviving photograph by a Japanese photographer. On display at the Museum of the Meiji Restoration

Okinawa Prefecture

  • Aragaki house and agari-nu-gama pottery kilns in Tsuboya, Naha
  • Bridge of Nations Bell - collection of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum
  • Engaku-ji - named a National Treasure in 1933; destroyed in 1945. Rebuilt gates and bridge named Important Cultural Property in 1975. Former temple bell (cast c. 1495-1496), and a 1697 recreation of that bell both survive and have both been designated.
  • Documents and objects related to the Ie udun family. Designated in 2019.
  • Ie udun tomb, Shuri
  • Collection of Kamakura Yoshitarô's photographs from his survey of Okinawan arts; held by Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts.
  • Magiri-zu maps, held by Okinawa Prefectural Museum
  • Mekaru tombs group site (incl. Izena dunchi tomb, near Shintoshin Park, Naha)
  • Nakamura House in Nakagusuku Village
  • Sôgen-ji - designated a National Treasure in 1933; destroyed in 1945. Surviving stone walls & gates are today an Important Cultural Property.
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References

  • Gallery labels and explanatory plaques at various sites.
  • Pamphlets available on-site.
  1. ↑ "Cultural Properties for Future Generations," Pamphlet, Agency of Cultural Affairs (2013), 2.
  2. ↑ Hyung-il Pai, AAS Roundtable, "Who Moved My Masterpiece?...Cultural Heritage of Kyoto," Association for Asian Studies annual conference, San Diego, March 23 2013.
  3. ↑ While the Freer piece seen here is permanently housed outside of Japan, and is therefore not an Important Cultural Property, an earlier version of the same work, held today by the Tokyo University of the Arts, does bear that designation.
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 Exhibition checklist, "Chinese Paintings from Japanese Collections," LACMA, May 10 2014.
  5. ↑ Imbrie Pavilion, Meiji Gakuin University website.
  6. ↑ Chôsen tsûshinshi to Okayama, Okayama Prefectural Museum (2007), 67-68.
  7. ↑ Chôsen tsûshinshi to Okayama, 34.
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