Important Cultural Properties of Japan
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Types of Cultural Properties
Japan's government made a Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties a Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). to protect its culture. It chooses important items and names them as Cultural Properties[note 2] The law sets rules about changing, repairing, or exporting these items.[1]
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There are different levels of designation. Designation can be at a Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value)., Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). or Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). level.
Designations of a different level can coexist. For example, Sankei-en, a traditional Japanese-style garden in Naka Ward, Yokohama, owns both city designated and nationally designated Important Cultural Properties.[2]
Some Important Cultural Properties of Japan
Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Tokyo
The Former Hokkaidō government office building
Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture
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Nihon Bridge in Nihonbashi, Tokyo
Meiji Seimei Kan in Tokyo
Notes
- ↑ The term is often shortened into just Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value).
- ↑ In this article, capitals indicate an official designation as opposed to a simple, unofficial definition, e.g. "Cultural Properties" as opposed to "cultural properties".
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cultural Properties for Future Generations" (PDF). Administration of Cultural Affairs in Japan ― Fiscal 2009. Agency for Cultural Affairs. June 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
- ↑ Yokohama Sankei Garden Archived 2017-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Sankei-en's official site accessed on November 3, 2009 (in Japanese)