Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Built around 1911, the Sojiji Koshokutsu Connecting Corridor links the Hokodo to the abbot's house, arching like a drum bridge over a path below. Registered in 2023.
The Sojiji Goreiden, built in 1937, enshrines Emperor Go-Daigo in a shrine-like row of worship hall, offering hall and inner sanctuary. Registered in 2005.
The Sojiji Sanshokan, built in 1920, is an all-zelkova koraimon with a guardhouse, and its plaque recalls three pines at the old Noto site. Registered in 2005.
Built in 1942, the Sojiji Sanpoden is a guardian shrine hall whose open, boat-hull-ceilinged front and porch lead toward the sanctuary. Registered in 2005.
Built in 1915, the Sojiji Shiundai is the chief abbot's audience hall: a long hip-and-gable exterior with a karahafu porch and calm shoin rooms. Registered in 2005.
Donated by Murai Kichibei in 1915, the Sojiji Bell and Drum Tower has a passage below and a bell above, mixing railed verandas and Zen windows. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Shoryo, built in 1915, is a Zen study hall in a plain residential style, with an earthen floor and slatted doors, next to the Daisodo. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Bell Tower of 1915 is an open belfry with 2:1 bay spacing and raking corner posts, the only structure at the temple listed as hard to reproduce.
Built in 1937, the Sojiji Daisodo is a working Zen monks' hall with tatami meditation platforms, two central columns and bell-shaped windows. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Taihokan joins a 1915 Owari Tokugawa reception hall, moved here in 1957, to a karahafu entrance saved from a quake-damaged 1912 building. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Hikari Kannon Pedestal, carved in 1923, is a tapering hexagonal granite base with Sanskrit syllables and petal ornaments that holds up a Kannon statue.
Built around 1915, the Sojiji Hyakken Corridor runs 142 meters past the Buddha Hall, with three gates named for morning, midday and night. Registered in 2005.
The Sojiji Buddha Hall in Yokohama, built in 1915, pairs a mokoshi skirt roof with three-stepped brackets and a plan split by two central columns. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Hokodo, an 1850s hall moved from Tsuruoka in 1911, hosted the first service at the relocated temple and keeps late-Edo carving across a 30 m front.
Built in 1925, the Sojiji Mukai Karamon is a cypress-bark gate with karahafu gables front and back and deep carving, opened only for ceremonies. Registered 2005.
A 1938 house of a former purveyor on a hill above Nagaura Bay in Yokosuka, registered in 2022, combining a stick-style Western wing and a Japanese wing.
Oiso Church Chapel in Oiso, Kanagawa: a 1937 weatherboarded timber chapel on the old Tokaido, with gabled bays, a pointed-arch entrance and a Gothic-style altar.
A timber church of about 1930 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, registered in 2003, with pointed-arch sash windows and a turret bearing a cross, shared with a kindergarten.
The largest and latest of the five buildings, added around 1922 by second owner Hara Sankei. Its eastern part is built out over the sloping ground on tall posts.
The oldest of five thatched buildings in Hakone Gora Park, this farmhouse-style tea room by tea master Masuda Don’o has a sunken hearth and old salvaged timber.
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