National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties
of National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan

Segment of Shishuo xinshu (New Account of Tales of the World)

Tang dynasty, China/7th century　

Kyoto National Museum （B甲549）

Segment of Shishuo xinshu (New Account of Tales of the World)

Kyoto National Museum （B甲549）

Part of the Collected Writings of Wang Bo, volume 29 and 30

1 scroll　 Ink on paper　 Tang dynasty/7-8th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1203）

Elegant Orchid in the Stone Tablet Mode,

1 scroll　 Ink on paper　 Tang dynasty/7-8th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1393）

Shishuo xinshu, Segment of Volume 6

1 scroll　 Ink on paper　 Tang dynasty/7-8th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1570）

Old-Script Document of Antiquities (Guwen Shangshu), Volume 6

1 scroll　 Ink on paper　 Tang dynasty/7th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1572）

Teaching on Enlightenment ("Torn Xutang")

By Xutang Zhiyu　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Southern Song dynasty/13th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1169）

Certificate of Buddhist Spiritual Achievement ("Floating Yuanwu")

By Yuanwu Keqin　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Northern Song dynasty/Senwa(Xuanhe) 6(1124)　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1171）

Letter of Dahui Zonggao

By Dahui Zonggao　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Southern Song dynasty/12th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1173）

Letter of Wuzhun Shifan ("Calligraphy of the Board Gift")

By Wuzhun Shifan　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Southern Song dynasty/Junyuu(Chunyou) 2(1242)　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1174）

Teaching on Enlightenment

By Liaoan Qingyu 　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Yuan dynasty/Shisei(Chih-cheng) 7(1341)　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1175）

Poems Dedicated to Muin Genkai

By Feng Zizhen　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Yuan dynasty/14th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1176）

Dafangguang fo huayan jing (Avatamsaka Sutra), Volume 8

Handscroll　 Tang dynasty, China/8th century　

Kyoto National Museum （B甲232）

Taishang yebao yinyuanjin (Scripture on Retribution, Cause, and Circumstances), Volume 8

Handscroll　 Tang dynasty (China)　

Kyoto National Museum （B甲236）

Fragment of a Tang Chinese poetry anthology

Handscroll　 Ink on paper　 Tang dynasty (China), 9th century　

Kyushu National Museum （B12）

Segment of writing by Liu shi

1 scroll　 Ink on paper　 Tang period/7-8th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1204）

Segment of 29th volume of anthology of Wang Bo

1 scroll　 Ink on paper　 Tang period/7-8th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1571）

Fragments of Chapter 7 of Volume 29: Kakyosho (book about irrigation works) of Shiki (Ch: Shiji, Records of the Historian)

1 piece (accordion book)　 Tang Dynasty period　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1573）

Neidian suihanyin shu (Commentary on the Reading and Meaning of Characters in the Monastic Discipline for Buddhist Nuns), Volume 307

Handscroll　

Kyoto National Museum （B甲234）

Chan (Zen) Calligraphy by Chijue Daochon

Hanging scroll　

Kyoto National Museum （B甲770）

Letter from Wuan Puning and Letter to Togan Ean

By Wuan Puning　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on wax-relief decorated paper (rosen)　Hanging scroll　 Southern Song dynasty, China/Xianchun 6(1270)　

Nara National Museum （1119(書74 B)）

Teachings of Yuanwu (Song-dynasty edition)

2 books　 Ink printing on paper　 Southern Song dynasty (China), 13th century　

Kyushu National Museum （B17）

Writing by Zen (Ch Chan) priest Xutang

By Xutang Zhiyu　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Southern Song period/13th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1170）

Writing by Zen (Ch Chan) priest Dahui

By Dahui　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Southern Song period/12th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1172）

Writing by Zen (Ch Chan) priest Beijian Jujian

By Beijian Jujian 　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Southern Song period/Shaoding 2 (1229)　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1179）

Writing by Zen (Ch Chan) priest Xutang Zhiyu

By Xutang Zhiyu　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Southern Song period/13th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1197）

Writing by Zen (Ch Chan) priest Chijue Daochong

By Chijue Daochong 　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Southern Song period/Chunyou 7 (1247)　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1198）

Framed Calligraphy for Zen temple, "Shakyamuni Treasure Hall"

By Wuzhun Shifan 　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Southern Song period/13th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1446）

Unchotokufu's letters to Shōichi Kokushi

By Unchotokufu　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Southern Song period/13th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1638）

Book of Tang Volume 71, Part 2 (Part 2 of The Genealogy of Prime Ministers Section 11), the Song period version

1 volume　 Southern Song Dynasty period　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1574）

Calligraphy by Feng Zizhen: On Hōgyū Kōrin

By Feng Zizhen　 Hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Yuan dynasty (China), 14th century　

Kyushu National Museum （B35）

Bubatsu for Honeiji temple

By Feng Zizhen. Gulin Qingmou 　 1 hanging scroll　 Ink on paper　 Yuan period/Taiding 4 (1327)　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1600）

Ancient-style Poem in Five-character Phrases in Running and Cursive Scripts

By Jixiu Qiliao (1269-1351)　 Ink on paper　 Yuan dynasty, 14th century　

Tokyo National Museum （TB-1701）