Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The oldest Kusumoto building in Hashimoto, Wakayama: a 12.5-ken late Edo barn whose lane side is plastered and boarded while the inner wall leaves its posts bare.

An early Meiji guest wing behind the main house in Hashimoto, Wakayama, with three tatami rooms set in an L and a roof ending hip-and-gable, hipped and gabled.

Dated to 1808 by its building account book, this low-eaved house in Gobo has an earth-floored doma, two rows of three rooms and old-style three-groove beams.

Added in the early Taisho period, this guest wing in Gobo joins the Edo main house by a corridor and has formal tatami rooms and colored-glass shoji screens.

A late Edo gatehouse in Gobo combining a gateway with a sliding plank door and a storehouse under one tiled gable roof, with plastered rear eaves. Registered 2021.

An early Taisho reinforced-concrete wall running 27 m along the west and south of a Gobo estate, with pilasters, curved-corner panels and textured mortar finishes.

Kokokuji Temple Founder's Hall in Yura, Wakayama, is a c.1823 cypress hall with a pyramidal roof, holding the stone grave tower of Master Hotto; registered 2025.

Kokokuji Temple Zazen Hall in Yura, Wakayama, is a late Edo meditation hall with a T-shaped plan, tiled floor and tatami platforms for monks; registered in 2025.

Kokokuji Temple Great Gate in Yura, Wakayama, is a tall 1938 four-legged gate of zelkova with a gabled tiled roof and peony carving, moved in 1997; registered 2025.

Kokokuji Temple Dharma Hall in Yura, Wakayama, is a 1797 Zen hall with a two-tiered tiled roof, curved and dormer gables, and a dragon ceiling; registered 2025.

Kokokuji Temple Abbot's Quarters in Yura, Wakayama, is a 1698 hipped-roof hojo with a curved-gable porch and six rooms; the oldest of five halls registered in 2025.

The sutra repository of Kodaiin on Koyasan, Wakayama, built in 1927 in the log-built azekura style, stands on a cut-stone base under a pyramidal copper roof.

The tahoto pagoda of Kodaiin on Koyasan, Wakayama, built in 1917 on a hill in the temple garden, is finely made with four-stepped brackets and chrysanthemum crests.

The Kono Amida Hall in Katsuragi, Wakayama, a thatched three-bay village hall of 1686 with zelkova and chestnut posts, is a fine northern Kii village hall.

Koyasan University Library on Mount Koya, Wakayama, a concrete library of 1929 by Takeda Goichi built for 300,000 Buddhist books, has a five-level stack.

Koyasan Reihokan Entrance, North and Central Corridors: a 1920 reception block whose walkways step up at the ridge to meet the halls; the one tiled roof of the five.

Koyasan Reihokan Shiunden Hall is the 1920 main hall of Koyasan's treasure museum, named for the purple cloud of Amida's descent. History, design and visiting rules.

Koyasan Reihokan Hokokaku is a 1920 gallery under a two-tiered pyramidal roof, with simple brackets below, dense ones above, and iron louvers to temper the light.

Koyasan Reihokan Treasure Storehouse is a 1920 concrete storehouse in log-store form, thought to be Ōe Shintarō's trial run for the Meiji Jingu Treasure House.

Koyasan Reihokan South and West Corridors: a 1920 L-shaped gallery joining two halls, 21 shaku wide, with a pyramidal corner tower to balance the museum's massing.