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Minobusan Kuonji Zuimon Gate
Yamanashi 昭和中 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Zuimon Gate

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Somon Teahouse
Yamanashi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Somon Teahouse

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Soshido Hall and Gokusho
Yamanashi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Soshido Hall and Gokusho

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Soshido Incense Burner Pavilion
Yamanashi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Soshido Incense Burner Pavilion

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Mizuya Pavilion
Yamanashi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Mizuya Pavilion

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Mausoleum Tower
Yamanashi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Mausoleum Tower

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Worship Hall
Yamanashi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Sobyo Worship Hall

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Great Guest Hall
Yamanashi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Great Guest Hall

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Taishido Hall
Yamanashi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Taishido Hall

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Great Bell Tower
Yamanashi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Great Bell Tower

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Butsuden and Nohaido Halls
Yamanashi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Butsuden and Nohaido Halls

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Hokido Hall
Yamanashi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Hokido Hall

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Hocchinkaku Hall
Yamanashi 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Hocchinkaku Hall

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.

Minobusan Kuonji Honjido Hall
Yamanashi 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Minobusan Kuonji Honjido Hall

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.

Yashiki Irisawa No. 7 Stone Dam
Yamanashi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yashiki Irisawa No. 7 Stone Dam

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.

Yamagata Shrine Chozuya
Yamanashi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yamagata Shrine Chozuya

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.

Yamagata Shrine Torii
Yamanashi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yamagata Shrine Torii

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.

Yamagata Shrine Worship Hall
Yamanashi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yamagata Shrine Worship Hall

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.

Yamagata Shrine Main Hall
Yamanashi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yamagata Shrine Main Hall

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.

Yamanashi Eiwa Junior and Senior High School Auditorium (Greenbank Chapel)
Yamanashi 昭和中 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yamanashi Eiwa Junior and Senior High School Auditorium (Greenbank Chapel)

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.