Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A late Edo thatched teahouse in Yumura, Kofu, moved in 1948 and 1991, with a tiny tea room and a ceiling of soot-darkened bamboo and paulownia. Registered in 2025.
The stone upper mouth, built in 1913, of the Katayama Tunnel that sent treated water from Kofu's Hirase plant to the city: an iron-doored portal 4.6 metres wide.
The town-side mouth of Kofu's Katayama Tunnel, completed in 1913: a plain stone portal with an arched iron door, a nameplate above and an iron main inside the rock.
A 1913 stone portal, 14.4 metres wide, where the Arakawa intake conduit entered the Hirase plant; the only one of six Hirase sites registered as a model of design.
A tiny round concrete well house of 1913 at Kofu's Hirase plant, where a valve set the pace of filtration; a pedimented door bears an inscription read right to left.
A 1913 granite gate at the head of the tunnel that carried Arakawa River water to Kofu's Hirase plant, with a four-character tablet and edokiri-style masonry.
The Hirase plant's 1935 office, a tiled timber building with a double-arched porch, later an officer's residence and home since 1988 to the Suikoan water museum.
The Enshido at Minobusan Kuonji is a small 1876 hall above the main buildings, housing a stone memorial tower, with fans and celestial maidens carved on its porch.
The Okunoin bell house at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1935 copper-roofed bell tower on the 1,153-metre summit, its 4 round posts leaning in under deep, bracketed eaves.
The Kanromon at Minobusan Kuonji is an 1868 koraimon gate, moved in 1941, whose main posts carry the ridge directly, with a gatekeeper's lodge at the back.
The Former Shoin at Minobusan Kuonji is an 1876 reception building whose heavy tiled exterior hides high ceilings and openwork carved transoms between its rooms.
The Goshinkotsudo at Minobusan Kuonji is a white plastered octagon of 1881 that keeps relics of Nichiren around a golden stupa in a gilded, vividly painted interior.
The Goshinkotsudo Worship Hall at Minobusan Kuonji, built in 1881 for Nichiren's 600th memorial, has Zen-style brackets, deep fanned eaves and a cusped porch gable.
The Sanmaido at Minobusan Kuonji is an 1823 hall moved to the Nishidani heights in 1941, with three-stepped brackets, a carved porch and a double coffered ceiling.
The Sanmon at Minobusan Kuonji is a two-storey Zen-style gate of 1907 with fanned rafters above and a plaque by the 79th abbot, at the foot of the Bodaitei steps.
The Jishoro at Minobusan Kuonji is a tall time bell tower of 1952 at the entrance to the main area, with a flared skirt and zodiac animals carved under its balcony.
The Shishinkaku Niomon at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1935 gate on the 1,153-metre summit, a copper-roofed hakkyakumon housing Nio guardian statues behind carved brackets.
The Joshoden at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1958 cypress-bark hall at the entrance to Nichiren's grave, its 45-mat room glazed to face the tower; the grave office is here.
The New Shoin at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1931 building on artificial ground, with 3 tatami rooms of 24 mats under high coffered ceilings and lattice-filled gables.
The Suigyodo at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1952 open-sided pavilion for water austerities, a tiled gable roof on chamfered posts and close brackets over a water basin.
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