Important Cultural Properties of Japan

The term is often shortened into just  is a list of items made by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. These are places and things that are especially important to the Japanese people.

Types of Cultural Properties
Japan's government made a Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties a  to protect its culture. It chooses important items and names them as Cultural PropertiesIn this article, capitals indicate an official designation as opposed to a simple, unofficial definition, e.g. "Cultural Properties" as opposed to "cultural properties". The law sets rules about changing, repairing, or exporting these items.

There is also , which sets a lower level of protection and support for  Registered Cultural Properties than for Designated Cultural Properties.

There are different levels of designation.  Designation can be at a ,  or  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.Yokohama Sankei Garden , Sankei-en's official site accessed on November 3, 2009 (in Japanese)

Some Important Cultural Properties of Japan

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Category:Japanese culture