Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Zuimon at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1953 yakuimon gate with side walls closing off the Sanmaido, built of thick timber with bearing blocks and boat-shaped arms.

The Somon Teahouse at Minobusan Kuonji is a plain timber building of 1894 inside the outer gate that once received pilgrims, a rare tea station at a Nichiren temple.

The Soshido at Minobusan Kuonji is the 1881 hall enshrining Nichiren, a T-shaped building with a carved inner sanctuary where the okaicho reveals his image.

An 1879 canopy over the incense burner before the Soshido at Minobusan Kuonji, built in the Zen style with lion-head beam ends and a carved dragon on the ceiling.

The Sobyo Mizuya at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1944 log-built water pavilion before Nichiren's grave, where a hollowed boulder basin holds water from the Minobu River.

The Sobyo tower at Minobusan Kuonji is a 12-metre marble-faced octagon of 1942 over Nichiren's grave, sheltering the original gorinto stone memorial of his tomb.

The Sobyo Worship Hall at Minobusan Kuonji is a 1942 log-framed hall under cypress bark, with a stone-paved floor for standing worship before Nichiren's grave.

The Great Guest Hall at Minobusan Kuonji is a long 1886 reception hall with a grand curved-gable entrance and 5 tatami rooms, including a raised 20-mat chamber.

The Taishido at Minobusan Kuonji is a storehouse-style hall of 1912, plastered to the eaves above a stone base and linked to the veneration of Prince Shotoku.

The Great Bell Tower at Minobusan Kuonji is an open-sided tower of 1882 before the founder's hall, with thick round columns, deep bracketed eaves and carving.

The Butsuden and Nohaido at Minobusan Kuonji, built in 1931, join a Buddha hall to 2 memorial-tablet wings; anyone can join its services at noon and 3:00 p.m.

The Hokido at Minobusan Kuonji is an 1883 hall, 10 bays by 9, whose earth-floored front room shows a huge central pillar and beams cut from giant trees.

The Hocchinkaku at Minobusan Kuonji, built in 1739, is the oldest registered hall, set on stone steps inside the outer gate, with painted spirits and carved dragons.

The Honjido at Minobusan Kuonji is a square raised hall of 1852 behind the main area, with a bracketed veranda and a jewel finial on its pyramidal copper roof.

Dry-stone erosion control dam of 1910 to 1918 in Fuefuki, Yamanashi, built after the floods of 1907, 66 metres long and still protecting the village below.

The smallest of four listed structures at Yamagata Shrine in Kai City, this 1921 purification pavilion covers 5.1 square metres over a natural boulder basin.

At the southern entrance of Yamagata Shrine in Kai City stands a 1923 torii of reinforced concrete, 6.8 metres high and shaped like a wooden shinmei gateway.

The worship hall of Yamagata Shrine in Kai City, built in 1921, sets a stone-paved floor under a ceiling whose slope differs from the copper roof above it.

Built in 1921 at the north end of Yamagata Shrine in Kai City, this small shinmei-zukuri hall rests on a white plastered podium and was registered in 2016.

Chapel and auditorium of 1949 at Yamanashi Eiwa school in Kofu, Yamanashi, built after the war by Shiokawa Akira with a lofty timber hall; named for a missionary.

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