Bairin Tenmangu Shrine Haiden

A Worship Hall with a Plum-Crest Strut

The Bairin Tenmangu Shrine Haiden (梅林天満宮拝殿) is a hip-and-gable worship hall of the late Edo period in Tsuru, Tamana City, Kumamoto Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on September 19, 2003 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a single-storey timber hall roofed in copper sheet, with a building area of 32 square metres; registration number 43-0055.

A Worship Hall with a Cusped Porch

The Bairin Tenmangu Shrine Haiden, the worship hall, is a hip-and-gable hall 3 bays square, entered on its long side, roofed in copper sheet, with a one-bay porch under a cusped gable at the front (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Its bracket sets project one step, frog-leg struts fill the spaces between the columns, and the rafters of its two-tier eaves are set in pairs (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Why It Was Registered

The Agency notes the distinctive veranda with a railing and bridge-post finials along the front and sides, and the cusped porch with openwork brackets and a large frog-leg strut carved with the plum-blossom crest; it was registered as a model of design.

What to Look For

Look for the plum-blossom crest carved on the large frog-leg strut of the porch, and the railed veranda (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

It is owned by Bairin Tenmangu Shrine (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The four registered structures are introduced together on the Bairin Tenmangu Shrine page. No official visiting information was found.