List of Cultural Properties of Japan - paintings (Miyagi)

This list is of paintings located within the Prefecture of Miyagi, Japan, that have been designated Cultural Properties.^[1]

National Cultural Properties

As of 1 October 2013, two properties have been designated Important Cultural Properties, being of national significance.^[2][3][4]

Property	Date	Municipality	Ownership	Comments	Image	Dimensions	Coordinates	Ref.
Partition paintings at Kanrantei 観瀾亭障壁画 Kanrantei shōhekiga	early C17	Matsushima	Kanrantei	21 panels, colours on gold ground; paper pasted on bamboo shōji (12), hinoki fusuma (6), and the hinoki walls of the tokonoma (3); the paintings include trees, rocks, waters, and spring flowers - dandelions, daffodils, azaleas, violets, and crab apples; attributed on stylistic grounds to Kanō Sakyō (狩野左京), a painter of the Kanō School in the employ of the Sendai Domain[5]			38°22′10″N 141°03′41″E / 38.369437°N 141.061342°E
Partition paintings in the Zuigan-ji Hondō 本堂障壁画 hondō shōhekiga	1620-28	Matsushima	Zuigan-ji	161 panels, colours on gold ground; paintings of pines and peacocks in the Peacock Room (孔雀の間 kujaku-no-ma), of Lü Shang and King Wen in the Room of King Bun (文王の間 Bunnō-no-ma), of bamboo and plum trees, trees and flowers in the High Room and Highest Room (上段・上々段の間 jōdan-no-ma・jōjōdan-no-ma), of cherry trees in the Buddhist Room (仏間 Butsu-no-ma), of hawks and birds in the Hawk Room (鷹の間 taka-no-ma), of pines and cherry trees in the Pine Room (松の間 matsu-no-ma), and of chrysanthemums in the Chrysanthemum Room (菊の間 kiku-no-ma); the paintings are attributed to Hasegawa Tōhaku, Kanō Sakyō (狩野左京), and his pupil Kurota (九郎太); the designation includes twenty-two panels by Kibi Kōeki (吉備幸益) in the Hermit Ink Painting Room (仙人墨絵間 sennin sumie-no-ma) and twelve painted cedar doors; the paintings, dated by an ink inscription of 1730, have now been replaced with replicas and are stored in the temple museum[6]		various sizes	38°22′20″N 141°03′35″E / 38.372213°N 141.059765°E

Prefectural Cultural Properties

As of 1 May 2013, fourteen properties have been designated at a prefectural level.^[4][7]

Property	Date	Municipality	Ownership	Comments	Image	Dimensions	Coordinates	Ref.
Nirvana painting 仏涅槃図 Butsu nehan-zu	Muromachi period	Kesennuma	Hōsen-ji (峰仙寺)	colours on silk; showing the parinirvana of Shaka, the historical Buddha, underneath the sal tree, surrounded by mourners man and beast, high and low; the painting was brought from Kyōto in 1539 and since the Keichō era (1596-1615) has been remounted four times[8]		189.7 centimetres (6.22 ft) by 150.3 centimetres (4.93 ft)	38°47′38″N 141°30′24″E / 38.793898°N 141.506792°E
Mandala of the Two Realms, colours on silk 絹本着色両界曼茶羅図 kenpon chakushoku ryōkai mandara-zu	1385	Shibata	Daikō-in (大光院)	colours on silk; remounted in 1502 and 1734		Diamond Realm Mandala: 157.9 centimetres (5.18 ft) by 129.7 centimetres (4.26 ft); Womb Realm Mandala: 175.1 centimetres (5.74 ft) by 129.4 centimetres (4.25 ft)	38°04′05″N 140°45′55″E / 38.068011°N 140.765162°E
Godaidō at Matsushima 松島五大堂図 Matsushima Godaidō zu	c.1881	Sendai	The Miyagi Museum of Art (宮城県美術館)	by Takahashi Yuichi (1828-1894); painted at the same time as his Before the Gate of the Miyagi Prefectural Office (1881); the first yōga or Western-style painting of this popular subject		108.6 centimetres (3.56 ft) by 57.7 centimetres (1.89 ft)	38°15′50″N 140°51′18″E / 38.263793°N 140.855005°E
Matsushima 松島図 Matsushima zu	c.1881	Sendai	The Miyagi Museum of Art (宮城県美術館)	by Takahashi Yuichi (1828-1894); also painted at the same time as his Before the Gate of the Miyagi Prefectural Office (1881)		92.5 centimetres (3.03 ft) by 47.3 centimetres (1.55 ft)	38°15′50″N 140°51′18″E / 38.263793°N 140.855005°E
Before the Gate of the Miyagi Prefectural Office 宮城県庁門前図 Miyagi kenchō mon mae zu	1881	Sendai	The Miyagi Museum of Art (宮城県美術館)	oil painting by Takahashi Yuichi (1828-1894); the building previously functioned as the Yōkendō (養賢堂) han school and was destroyed by fire in July 1945; the painting was commissioned by Miyagi Prefecture at the same time as two landscape paintings of Matsushima		122.0 centimetres (4.003 ft) by 61.1 centimetres (2.00 ft)	38°15′50″N 140°51′18″E / 38.263793°N 140.855005°E
Seikai Mandala 清海曼茶羅図 Seikai mandala zu	Muromachi period	Sendai	Jōkaku-ji (成覚寺)	the Seikai Mandala, along with the Taima Mandala and the Chikō Mandala, is one of the three Pure Land Mandalas (浄土三曼荼羅 jōdo sanmandara); based on the Amitayurdhyana Sutra, it depicts a vision of the Pure Land granted to the monk Seikai (清海) in 996; the painting was brought from Hōrin-ji (法林寺) in Kyōto in 1630[9][10]		183 centimetres (6.00 ft) by 151 centimetres (4.95 ft)	38°15′18″N 140°53′21″E / 38.255066°N 140.889144°E
Shaka with Sixteen Benevolent Deities 釈迦十六善神像図 Shaka jūroku zenjin zō zu	Muromachi period	Kesennuma	Hōsen-ji (峰仙寺)	colours on silk, with kirikane, gold paint, cinnabar, yellow ochre, ultramarine, verdigris, and black ink; the Sixteen Benevolent Deities, protectors of the Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra, appear eight on each side of Shaka and the attendant bodhisattvas Fugen Bosatsu and Monju Bosatsu; the painting was brought from Kyōto in 1539[11]		126.1 centimetres (4.14 ft) by 61.4 centimetres (2.01 ft)	38°47′38″N 141°30′24″E / 38.793898°N 141.506792°E
Nirvana painting 仏涅槃図 Butsu nehan zu	Muromachi period	Matsushima	Zuigan-ji	colours on silk; traditionally attributed by the temple to Kanō Motonobu[8]		227 centimetres (7.45 ft) by 183 centimetres (6.00 ft)	38°22′20″N 141°03′35″E / 38.372213°N 141.059765°E
Shaka preaching 釈迦説法図 Shaka seppō zu	Muromachi period	Matsushima	Zuigan-ji	colours on silk		159.8 centimetres (5.24 ft) by 113 centimetres (3.71 ft)	38°22′20″N 141°03′35″E / 38.372213°N 141.059765°E
Shōsai Hōshin 性西法身像 Shōsai Hōshin zō	late Kamakura or early Muromachi period	Matsushima	Zuigan-ji	colours on silk; refounder of the Heian-period temple of Enpukuzen-ji (円福禅寺) as Zuigan-ji		101 centimetres (3.31 ft) by 49.5 centimetres (1.62 ft)	38°22′20″N 141°03′35″E / 38.372213°N 141.059765°E
Rankei Dōryū 蘭渓道隆像 Rankei Dōryū zō	late Kamakura or early Muromachi period	Matsushima	Zuigan-ji	colours on silk; second chief priest of Zuigan-ji		101 centimetres (3.31 ft) by 49.5 centimetres (1.62 ft)	38°22′20″N 141°03′35″E / 38.372213°N 141.059765°E
Minki Sōgu 明極聰愚像 Minki Sōgu zō	late Kamakura or early Muromachi period	Matsushima	Zuigan-ji	colours on silk; tenth chief priest of Zuigan-ji		93.5 centimetres (3.07 ft) by 45.3 centimetres (1.49 ft)	38°22′20″N 141°03′35″E / 38.372213°N 141.059765°E
Partition painting of phoenixes from the Honmaru great hall of Sendai Castle 仙台城本丸大広間障壁画鳳凰図 Sendai-jō honmaru dai-hiroma shōhekiga hōō zu	Momoyama period	Matsushima	Matsushima Town (kept at the Kanrantei Matsushima Museum)	colours on paper with gold ground; by an artist of the Kanō school for Date Masamune		3.19 metres (10.5 ft) by 1.606 metres (5.27 ft)	38°22′52″N 141°04′08″E / 38.381162°N 141.068916°E
Partition painting of fans from the Honmaru great hall of Sendai Castle 仙台城本丸大広間障壁画鳳凰図 Sendai-jō honmaru dai-hiroma shōhekiga senmen zu	Momoyama period	Sendai	Sendai City Museum	colours on paper; the fans depict subjects including a bridge and waterwheel, Musashino (武蔵野), Hamamatsu, wisteria with running water, and phoenixes with paulownias; few partition paintings survive from castles, so these are of particular significance		3.30 metres (10.8 ft) by 1.585 metres (5.20 ft)	38°15′21″N 140°51′24″E / 38.255891°N 140.856721°E

See also

• Cultural Properties of Japan
• List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings)
• Japanese painting
• List of Historic Sites of Japan (Miyagi)

References

1. "Preservation and Utilization of Cultural Properties" (PDF). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
2. 国宝・重要文化財 [Number of National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties by Prefecture] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. 1 October. Retrieved 5 October 2013. Check date values in: |date= (help)
3. "Database of National Cultural Properties: 国宝・重要文化財（美術品）(絵画 宮城県)" (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
4. 宮城県の国・県指定文化財 [National and Prefectural Cultural Properties in Miyagi Prefecture] (in Japanese). Miyagi Prefecture. 16 August 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
5. 観瀾亭障壁画 [Partition paintings at Kanrantei] (in Japanese). Miyagi Prefecture. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
6. 瑞巌寺本堂障壁画 [Partition paintings in the Zuiganji Hondō] (in Japanese). Miyagi Prefecture. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
7. 都道府県別指定等文化財件数（都道府県分） [Number of Prefectural Cultural Properties by Prefecture] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
8. "Nehan-zu". Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
9. "Seikai mandara". Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
10. "Jōdo sanmandara". Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
11. "Juuroku zenshin". Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System. Retrieved 5 October 2013.

External links

• (Japanese) Cultural Properties in Miyagi Prefecture