Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Shogyoji Temple Main Hall in Nakatsu is a late Edo Shin Buddhist hall about 27 m across, with a gomon plan, zelkova frame and coffered ceilings. Registered in 2013.
The Jodoji Temple Ippakuko Mausoleum in Oita holds the memorial stone of Matsudaira Tadanao, grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu, under a cusped gable and fine brackets.
The Jodoji Temple Front Gate in Oita is a late Meiji four-legged gate with fan rafters, a coffered ceiling and carved dragons, baku and lions before the Main Hall.
The Jodoji Temple North Gate in Oita, built in 1925, is a gabled four-legged gate with shachi on its ridge and an unusual plate block under its head beam.
The Jodoji Temple Priests' Quarters in Oita is a late Edo residence under a hipped tile roof, with chamfered posts and a temple tradition linking it to a castle.
The Jodoji Temple Entrance and Corridor in Oita links the Main Hall and Priests' Quarters; its floor turns from boards to tatami. Boat timbers are said to be reused.
The Jodoji Temple Daibenzaiten Stone Shrine in Oita is a 1911 miniature shrine carved from four blocks of local tuff, with brackets and rafters cut in stone.
The Jodoji Temple Main Hall in Oita, rebuilt in 1849 after a fire, is a seven-bay Jodo-sect hall with a tiled hip-and-gable roof and a projecting sanctuary.
The stone bridge and channel wall before the gate of the Higashi Betsuin in Usa. A late-Edo girder bridge, 9.5 m wide with nine cambered girders, framing the front.
The sutra repository of the Higashi Betsuin in Usa, completed in 1799, the compound's oldest building. Inside turns an octagonal revolving case in a fine storehouse.
The drum tower of the Higashi Betsuin in Usa, a late-Edo two-storey structure housing a drum. With cusped windows east and west, it accents the temple skyline.
The earthen wall and stone base on the north edge of the Higashi Betsuin in Usa. A late-Edo plaster wall on random-coursed andesite, shaping the historic streetscape.
The main hall of the Higashi Betsuin in Usa, rebuilt in 1880 after fire. One of Kyushu's largest Shin Buddhist halls, with a broad plan and a decorated inner sanctuary.
The Sunori Bridge of 1927 in Innai, Usa, Oita, is a slender two-span stone arch bridge, 40 metres long, set lightly 17 metres above the river in its gorge.
The Sekisaki Lighthouse of 1901 at the eastern tip of the Saganoseki Peninsula, Oita, is an 11-metre iron tower of riveted plate, a rare Meiji-era iron lighthouse.
The Takaiwa Bridge of 1928 in Innai, Usa, Oita, spans the Era River with a flat stone arch of 27 metres, one of 75 stone bridges that survive in the Innai area.
Built in 1872 by local carpenter Higashi Hidezo, this small Usuki townhouse carries deep eaves on projecting brackets above latticed windows. A private home.
Built around 1913 as the Ichimiro restaurant beside the Inaba River in Taketa, Oita, this wooden hall keeps tatami rooms below and a staged banquet room above.
An 1864 yakuimon gate at the Tada headman's estate in Bungo-Ono, Oita, set before the Onari-yashiki to receive the Usuki lord, with a gently sweeping roof.
An 1864 hall at the Tada headman's estate in Bungo-Ono, Oita, built to receive the lord of Usuki and later used as the Meiji district office. Registered property.
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