Talk:National Treasures of Japan

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As noted, Japan has more than 1000 national treasures and I don't think it's realistic to list all of them. Instead, I am thinking to make a gallery of notable National Treasures of Japan. Does anyone have some comment? --219.122.169.128 08:49, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Illustrated scroll of the Tale of Genji

Pine Trees(right), Hasegawa Tōhaku
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Dry-lacquer statue of Ganjin,Tōshōdai-ji

Wind God and Thunder God, Tawaraya Sōtatsu

Amanohashidate, Sesshū

Keep of Matsumoto Castle

Said to be the portrait of Minamoto no Yoritomo

Joan, Tea house

The five story pagoda, Mt. Haguro, Three Mountains of Dewa

Ōura Church

None of this makes any sense. The Zenkō-ji in Nagano, and its constituent parts are, in fact, National Treasures, but the prefecture is not even listed among the statistical numbers. What gives? All of this needs to be researched much better... NeoThe1

P.S. Do you even know how to make galleries? Please do not spam talk pages with huge, disorganised images. NeoThe1 15:00, 29 June 2007 (UTC)


OK. This chart may satisfy you.

Prefecture Building Structures Art Works
Hokkaido 0 0
Aomori 0 2
Iwate 1 7
Miyagi 3 3
Akita 0 1
Yamagata 1 4
Fukushima 1 2
Ibaragi 0 2
Tochigi 6 10
Gunma 0 0
Saitama 0 1
Chiba 0 8
Tokyo 1 233
Kanagawa 1 18
Niigata 0 1
Toyama 1 0
Ishikawa 0 3
Fukui 2 4
Yamanashi 2 3
Nagano 5 2
Gifu 3 3
Shizuoka 0 11
Aichi 3 6
Mie 0 4
Shiga 22 33
Kyoto 48 207
Osaka 5 55
Hyogo 11 9
Nara 64 143
Wakayama 7 29
Tottori 1 2
Shimane 2 2
Okayama 2 4
Hiroshima 7 12
Yamaguchi 3 6
Tokushima 0 0
Kagawa 2 4
Ehime 3 9
Kochi 1 1
Fukuoka 0 12
Saga 0 0
Nagasaki 3 0
Kumamoto 0 0
Oita 2 2
Miyazaki 0 0
Kagoshima 0 1
Okinawa 0 1
Total 213 860

Source: Database of National Cultural Properties, the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan.

Hey, this is pretty damn cool! NeoThe1 15:35, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

There is still a problem. Do you have any idea how to do with the section of List of National Treasures.

These are obviously wrong,

These are inaccurate,

I dont, and I dont wish you to urge me to build the list of ALL the national treasures.--60.56.39.14 06:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Why the hell not? It would ve a) very cool and b) very encyclopaedic...if you could substantiate it, like the list above. NeoThe1 15:36, 5 July 2007 (UTC)