Important cultural property
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Ima Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall in Yamaguchi joins gate and main hall on one axis, an early form of gongen-zukuri. A late Muromachi building designated in 1907.
Ima Hachiman Shrine Main Hall in Yamaguchi, said to be rebuilt in 1503, is a nagare-zukuri sanctuary with rare carvings of sun, moon and fish; designated in 1907.
Ima Hachiman Shrine Tower Gate in Yamaguchi has floored wings that make it a worship hall, a type copied across the region; designated 1907, Ouchi crests on top.
On the wooded summit of Mount Iwaki in Yamaguchi, this Shinto hall dates to 1469. Its hip-and-gable front, gable rear, and carved struts show late Muromachi craft.
The Ube City Watanabe-O Memorial Hall (1937), an Important Cultural Property by Murano Togo, was built by seven local firms to honor industrialist Watanabe Yusaku.
Thatched hall at Gachirinji in Tokuji, Yamaguchi, said to have been rebuilt by the monk Chogen in 1189 and thought to be the oldest building in the prefecture.
The house of the Kikuya merchants of Hagi, Yamaguchi, whose five buildings became an Important Cultural Property in 1974, among the oldest large townhouses in Japan.
Brick shaft kiln of 1883 built by Onoda Cement, Japan's first private cement firm, in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi; the Tokkuri Kiln is the only such kiln left.
Built in 1906, the Former British Consulate at Shimonoseki is Japan's oldest surviving consulate building, a Queen Anne design by British architect William Cowan.
The golden hall of the Suo provincial temple in Hofu, Yamaguchi, built in 1779 by the Mori lord, is a rare surviving great hall on its original Nara-period stones.
The Shikairo of 1879 at Murotsu, Yamaguchi, a four-storey plastered house built for a shipping agent, is decorated with plaster dragons and coloured glass.
The front gate of Jonenji in Hagi, Yamaguchi, a Momoyama four-legged gate, is said to be a back gate of Hideyoshi's Jurakudai, given to Mori Terumoto and moved here.
The 1539 worship hall of Sumiyoshi Shrine in Shimonoseki, said to be a gift of Mori Motonari: a three-by-one-bay, gable-fronted hall roofed in cypress bark.
Daishoin in Hagi, Yamaguchi, Zen family temple of the Mori lords of Hagi, keeps five buildings rebuilt in 1750 and 1755, among them a large main hall and a gate.
The Worship Hall of Furukuma Shrine in Yamaguchi City, designated in 1949, fuses a two-storey gate with a worship room, its wings linking it to the Main Hall.
Designated in 1917, the Main Hall of Furukuma Shrine in Yamaguchi City carries carved struts of pine, bamboo and plum, held to be the oldest surviving in Japan.
An 1871 stone lighthouse on the cliffs of Mutsurejima off Shimonoseki, built under R. H. Brunton and made an Important Cultural Property in 2020. It still works.
Rebuilt by Takeda Shingen in 1558 at the site where Kai Province's first-ranked shrine began, this cypress-bark hall carries helmets carved on its struts.
Designated in 1935, this one-bay Momoyama sanctuary in central Kofu keeps painted carving and metal-fitted doors. Its name recalls a legend of draining the basin.
The kuri at Unpoji in Koshu, Yamanashi, held the kitchen and living quarters: a long thatched, gable-entry building of the early Edo period, the widest of the four halls.