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**[[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/>
 
*[[Seikado Bunko Art Museum|Seikadô Bunko Art Museum]]:
 
*[[Seikado Bunko Art Museum|Seikadô Bunko Art Museum]]:
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**[[Lan Ying]] - hanging scroll, "Autumn Landscape in the manner of [[Wang Meng]]"<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Zhang Ruitu]] - hanging scroll painting, "Pine-covered Mountains Rising Through Clouds"<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Zhang Ruitu]] - hanging scroll painting, "Pine-covered Mountains Rising Through Clouds"<ref name=lacma/>
 
*[[Senso-ji|Sensô-ji]] ''Nitenmon'' gate - downgraded from National Treasure in 1950
 
*[[Senso-ji|Sensô-ji]] ''Nitenmon'' gate - downgraded from National Treasure in 1950
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**Gate of the [[Inshu-Ikeda Edo mansion|Inshû-Ikeda Residence]]
 
**Gate of the [[Inshu-Ikeda Edo mansion|Inshû-Ikeda Residence]]
 
**[[Liang Kai]] - hanging scroll painting of [[Li Bai]]<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Liang Kai]] - hanging scroll painting of [[Li Bai]]<ref name=lacma/>
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**[[Lu Ji]] - set of four hanging scrolls, "Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons"<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Ma Yuan]] (attr.) - hanging scroll, "The Priest Dongshan Wading Across a Stream"<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Ma Yuan]] (attr.) - hanging scroll, "The Priest Dongshan Wading Across a Stream"<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Ogata Korin|Ogata Kôrin]] - Fûjin/Raijin screen paintings
 
**[[Ogata Korin|Ogata Kôrin]] - Fûjin/Raijin screen paintings
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**[[Shi Ke]] (attr.) - pair of hanging scrolls, "Two Patriarchs Harmonizing Their Minds"<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Shi Ke]] (attr.) - pair of hanging scrolls, "Two Patriarchs Harmonizing Their Minds"<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Sun Junze]] (attr.) - hanging scroll landscape<ref name=lacma/>
 
**[[Sun Junze]] (attr.) - hanging scroll landscape<ref name=lacma/>
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**[[Yan Hui]] (attr.) - pair of hanging scroll paintings of [[Hanshan]] and [[Shide]]<ref name=lacma/>
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**[[Zhu Duan]] - hanging scroll, "Solitary Angler on a Winter River"<ref name=lacma/>
 
*[[Ueno Toshogu|Ueno Tôshôgû]]
 
*[[Ueno Toshogu|Ueno Tôshôgû]]
  
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[[File:Nagoya-SEtower.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The southeast corner tower at [[Nagoya castle]]]]
 
[[File:Nagoya-SEtower.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The southeast corner tower at [[Nagoya castle]]]]
 
*[[Nagoya castle]] - the three remaining corner towers, of an original eleven, are designated Important Cultural Properties
 
*[[Nagoya castle]] - the three remaining corner towers, of an original eleven, are designated Important Cultural Properties
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*[[Tokugawa Art Museum]]:
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**[[Chen Rong]] - hanging scroll painting of a dragon<ref name=lacma/>
  
 
===Shiga Prefecture===
 
===Shiga Prefecture===
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**''Yûtsû nenbutsu engi'' by [[Tosa Mitsunobu]] (colors on silk)
 
**''Yûtsû nenbutsu engi'' by [[Tosa Mitsunobu]] (colors on silk)
 
**''Yûtsû nenbutsu engi [[kanjincho|kanjinchô]]'' (colors on paper)
 
**''Yûtsû nenbutsu engi [[kanjincho|kanjinchô]]'' (colors on paper)
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===Osaka Prefecture===
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*[[Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts]]:
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**[[Dong Qichang]] - handscroll paining, "The Pan'gu Farewell"<ref name=lacma/>
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**[[Wang Wei]] (attr.) - handscroll painting, "Fu Sheng Transmitting the Classic"<ref name=lacma/>
  
 
===Hiroshima Prefecture===
 
===Hiroshima Prefecture===

Revision as of 12:50, 1 June 2014

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 12,760 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.[1]

Selected List of Important Cultural Properties

Ishikawa Prefecture

Chiba Prefecture

Tokyo

"Spring and Autumn Flowering Grasses," folding screens, by Sakai Hôitsu (Tokyo National Museum)

Kanagawa Prefecture

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

Aichi Prefecture

The southeast corner tower at Nagoya castle

Shiga Prefecture

  • Hikone castle - various buildings, including Ninomaru Sawaguchitamon-yagura. Main tenshu is a National Treasure.

Nara Prefecture

Kyoto Prefecture

Windows of the upper story of Clarke Memorial Hall at Dôshisha University
Pagoda at Ninna-ji, Kyoto
  • Byôdô-in - Yôrin'an shoin, moved to the Byôdô-in from Fushimi castle in 1601
  • Clarke Memorial Hall at Dôshisha University
  • Daitoku-ji Shinju-an - various paintings, works of calligraphy, etc. including works of calligraphy by Daitô Kokushi.
  • Ginkaku-ji - entire complex; includes two buildings designated as National Treasures.
  • Nanzen-ji sub-temple Tenju-an:
    • 32 fusuma paintings by Hasegawa Tôhaku, self-portrait of Daimin-kokushi, self-portrait of Shôichi-kokushi, portrait of the priest Heiden, and two portraits of Hosokawa Yûsai and his wife
  • Ninna-ji:
    • Bell tower (shôrô, c. 1620s-1640s)
    • Kannon-dô (1640s)
    • Mie-dô (c. 1624-44)
    • Niô-mon (c. 1620s-1640s)
    • Pagoda (1644)
    • Ryôkakutei
    • Seated sculpture of Yakushi-nyôrai, in the Reimei-den
    • Sutra Hall (kyôzô, c. 1620s-40s)
  • Shimogamo Shrine - 53 various objects.
  • Zenrin-ji:
    • Mikaeri Amida sculpture
    • Painting of sixteen Arhats (ink & colors on silk, Kamakura period, Important Cultural Property)
    • Painting of the raging sea on gilded paper, by Hasegawa Tôhaku (hatô-zu)
    • Painting of Shaka Trinity by Kanô Motonobu (colors on paper)
    • Painting of Shaka and Ten Disciples, attr. Zhang Sigong (color on silk)
    • Painting of Amida and Twenty-Five Bodhisattvas raigô
    • Painting of Amida Trinity (Kamakura period)
    • Painting of Buddha entering Nirvana (nehanzu, ink and colors on paper)
    • Painting of Yakushi nyorai (ink and colors on silk)
    • Painting of Shaka and 16 good gods (Shaka 16 zenjin-zô)
    • Painting of Ten Worlds (colors on silk)
    • Painted door of 25 bodhisattvas raigô
    • Reliquary
    • Taima Mandala (1262)
    • Taima Mandala (c. 1213-1218)
    • Yûtsû nenbutsu engi by Tosa Mitsunobu (colors on silk)
    • Yûtsû nenbutsu engi kanjinchô (colors on paper)

Osaka Prefecture

Hiroshima Prefecture

Fukuoka Prefecture

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

Kagoshima Prefecture

Okinawa Prefecture

  • Engaku-ji - named a National Treasure in 1933; destroyed in 1945. Rebuilt gates and bridge named Important Cultural Property in 1975.
  • Sôgen-ji - designated a National Treasure in 1933; destroyed in 1945. Surviving stone walls & gates are today an Important Cultural Property.

References

  • Gallery labels and explanatory plaques at various sites.
  • Pamphlets available on-site.
  1. Hyung-il Pai, AAS Roundtable, "Who Moved My Masterpiece?...Cultural Heritage of Kyoto," Association for Asian Studies annual conference, San Diego, March 23 2013.
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 Exhibition checklist, "Chinese Paintings from Japanese Collections," LACMA, May 10 2014.