Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The mid-Meiji ridge gate of the Hoashi branch residence: 2.7 metres wide, tiled, set back beside the main house, with a wicket door and plaster walls on both sides.
West of the Hoashi branch kitchen, a 12 square metre mid-Meiji bathing block joins a washing room and a bath room at right angles under two kinds of tiled roof.
A late Edo ridge gate two bays wide on the street front of the Hoashi estate in Hetsugi, Oita, with sliding solid and lattice doors. Registered in 2006.
A store for pledged goods built about 1916 at the Hoashi estate in Hetsugi, Oita: seven bays of white plaster over a namako dado and stone base. Registered 2006.
The 1865 main house of the Hoashi sake family in Hetsugi, Oita, with a samurai-style formal entrance and raised reception room. Registered in 2006; now a gallery.
A late Edo bracket-arm gate beside the formal entrance of the Hoashi main house in Hetsugi, Oita; with its 12-metre wall it screens off the garden. Registered 2006.
A single-storey reception wing of 1937 joined to the Hoashi main house in Hetsugi, Oita. Its eight-mat room pairs shoin style with modern touches. Registered 2006.
A roofed Taisho-period timber garden wall, 51 metres long, at the Hoashi estate in Hetsugi, Oita, with stone base, deep eaves, a gate and a shrine. Registered 2006.
A Taisho-period earthen storehouse for family valuables at the Hoashi estate in Hetsugi, Oita, on a raised stone platform, each floor a single room. Registered 2006.
A 1916 reception wing at the Hoashi estate in Hetsugi, Oita, its mortar walls scored to pass for stone, with Western and tatami rooms. Registered 2006; a restaurant.
The youngest of the temple's 11 registered buildings at Usa in Oita, this 107-square-metre retiring hall of the early Showa era shows free sukiya detailing.
An 1885 hexagonal sutra repository at Usa in Oita, plaster-sealed on a stepped stone podium, holding an octagonal revolving case inside. Registered in 2016.
A 530-square-metre Taisho range at Usa in Oita joining the temple kitchen, a 28-mat meeting room and a wing housing envoys of subordinate temples. Listed 2016.
A mid-Edo four-legged gate at Usa in Oita, 4.8 metres wide, its carving concentrated in the eaves. Oldest of the temple's 11 registered buildings, listed 2016.
A late-Edo belfry at Usa in Oita, three bays by two, with a flared skirt and two-tiered brackets. Paired with the plastered drum tower opposite. Registered 2016.
Built about 1915 at Usa in Oita for the Hoonko rite, this 337-square-metre hall borrows the three-part plan of a main hall's outer sanctuary. Registered in 2016.
Built in 1847 at Usa in Oita, this plaster-sealed drum tower rises on a stone podium, its posts and ties modelled in relief under the render. Registered in 2016.
An early-Meiji audience hall at Usa in Oita, 205 square metres, pairing rooms of 18 and 10 mats with the smaller raised as a dais. Registered in 2016.
A late-Taisho rest hall at Usa in Oita, 65 square metres, its front bay open to the approach and its coffered ceiling painted with temple crests. Registered 2016.
A tall late-Edo koraimon at Usa in Oita, 4.2 metres wide, marking where the street ends. From beneath it the Main Gate and main hall line up. Registered in 2016.
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