Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Joined to the north flank of the main hall at Jizoji in Tokushima, this late Edo hall is built around a central goma fire altar, and its carved gable is admired.
A Taisho gate 2.3 metres wide with a cloud-pierced transom and pocket lattice doors, and a copper-coped board wall running 34 metres along Hojuin's south edge.
Beside the 1904 main house in Komatsushima, this Taisho kitchen house has a stone-paved cooking floor with stoves and, upstairs, servants' rooms divided by a void.
The oldest building at Hojuin, this 1903 earthen storehouse in Komatsushima measures 11 by 4.8 metres and anchors the northwest corner with the white west wall.
Built in 1904 in Komatsushima, Tokushima, this two-storey home has a round-tiled gable roof, pan-tiled eaves, a veranda-edged reception room and 12-mat room above.
A Taisho wall and plank-doored gate running south from the main house entrance at Hojuin, Komatsushima, dividing the approach from the garden with bamboo lattice.
A Taisho-era earthen wall 25 metres long and 3.6 metres high closing the west side of Hojuin in Komatsushima, with board facing below and white plaster above.
A Taisho-era annex behind the 1904 main house in Komatsushima: bath and lavatory below, and upstairs a single room with a yakusugi cedar ceiling and papered walls.
A Taisho guest lavatory of 8.6 square metres off the main house veranda in Komatsushima, with a woven ajiro ceiling, a display shelf, log rafters and bamboo facing.
Built in the 1710s at Shikoku pilgrimage temple No. 5 in Itano, Tokushima, this three-bay hip-and-gable hall is a good early-modern example of a pilgrim main hall.
The 1877 shop and main house of the Shimao family in Ikawa, Miyoshi, Tokushima, registered in 2017, a long townhouse facing the street.
A four-storey timber pavilion of about 1877 in Ikawa, Miyoshi, Tokushima, registered in 2017, with cusped windows and a top-floor games room.
The main hall of Senkoin in Awa, Tokushima, an early Showa Shingon hall with a tiled gable roof, front porch and side aisles, stands at the head of a valley fan.
The tea house of Zojuin in Tokushima City, a late Edo sukiya building of two wings joined at an angle, gives each room its own character with lavish fine timbers.
The Maikomi Well of Zojuin in Tokushima City, a late Edo well, winds down a funnel-shaped pit lined with schist slabs by a spiral path to its well curb.
The Taisanji Temple Corridor in Kamiita, Tokushima, a late Edo passage joining two halls, houses a row of 33 Kannon statues behind lattice doors. Registered in 2011.
The Taisanji Temple Bell Tower Gate in Kamiita, Tokushima, is a late Edo two-story gate with a bell above, fan rafters and a railed veranda. Registered in 2011.
The Taisanji Temple Daishido Hall in Kamiita, Tokushima, built in 1863 for Kobo Daishi, is a small pyramid-roofed hall with grouped rafters. Registered in 2011.
The Taisanji Temple Main Hall in Kamiita, Tokushima, is a three-bay mid-Edo hall moved here in 1796, its porch carved with dragons and baku. Registered in 2011.
A 1901 hall on the eastern side of the Tairyuji precinct in Anan, Tokushima, rebuilt after the fire of 1894. The daily fire rite is still performed here.
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