Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Yugyo-ji's Obankata is the formal reception building of the residential quarters. Its large carved irimoya porch served the head priest's departures. Built in 1913.
Yugyo-ji's bell tower stands on a raised stone base, an open bay of 1934 with inward-leaning octagonal posts. Its bell bears a 1356 inscription, a prefectural property.
Yugyo-ji's Somon is a large black gate about 7.2 metres tall, the local Kuromon, facing the old Tokaido at Fujisawa-juku. Registered with its walls for landscape value.
The pavilion before Yugyo-ji's Main Hall is a single open bay dense with carving, from openwork beam-ends to animals among the brackets. It is early Meiji work.
Yugyo-ji's Hundred-ken Corridor links the Main Hall to the reception quarters, rising and turning with the sloping precinct, its walls lined with pointed-arch windows.
Shojoko-ji's 1937 Main Hall, seat of the Ji-shu sect in Fujisawa, spans roughly 30 metres each way, its central sanctuary wrapped in outer bays under high ceilings.
Showa Denko Kawasaki Factory Head Office: a 1931 two-storey concrete office on reclaimed land in Kawasaki, built for an ammonia works and still in use today.
The gate of Minato Junior High School in Yokohama reuses the Art Deco stone pillars and lamps of Hanazono Bridge, built in 1928 after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Shinzanso, the former Fujiyama Raita villa of about 1935, stands in the Hakone Museum of Art garden in Gora, joining thatched wings and a green-tiled Western wing.
A sixteen-meter garden wall at the former Yamamoto Jotaro villa in Kamakura stacks earth and tile in nine courses on a cobble base, built with the tea room around 1956.
The machiai at the former Yamamoto Jotaro villa in Kamakura is a tiny tea-ceremony waiting arbor of cedar logs and bark-faced walls, built around 1956 and now registered.
The gate at the former Yamamoto Jotaro villa in Kamakura is a single-bay bracket of polished logs with a copper roof, a middle gate on the approach and now registered.
Reigenkaku in Hase, Kamakura, is a 1918 sukiya villa by Yamamoto Jotaro. Now a registered cultural property, it survived the 1923 earthquake and overlooks Yuigahama.
A 1932 timber house near Zushi Beach, Kanagawa, its central corridor serving Western and tatami rooms, its facade a line of window hoods. Registered 2022.
A boiler house built about 1946 by GHQ by the 1932 main house of the Sudo Family Residence in Zushi, Kanagawa, once with a boiler and coal store. Registered 2022.
The Sunshodo storehouse of 1936 in Kamakura, joined to the corner of the carving shop, has heavy plastered windows and no stair, each floor entered from the shop.
The Sunshodo main house of 1936 in Kamakura, a shop for Kamakura-bori carving, mixes a temple-like front and a finial-topped tower with castle-like plastered walls.
Seikantei, on the hill south of the Odawara Castle site, Kanagawa, is a house of the early Taisho era (1912–1925) with a staggered plan and sukiya interiors.
Built in 1920, the Sojiji Koshakudai is a 2-storey Zen kitchen hall with a bold carved gable, now the reception and home to a giant wooden Daikoku. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Koshokutsu, an 1850s shoin house moved from Tsuruoka in 1911, is the chief abbot's home, with carved transoms and two tatami rooms. Registered 2005.
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