Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Oita

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.

Built in 1859 at Usa in Oita, this 30-metre hall is held to be the largest timber building in Kyushu and the only one of 11 registered structures listed for design.

Myojuji Chumon in Bungotakada, Oita, is a late-Edo four-legged gate registered nationally in 2018, carved with baku, shishi and kirin beast heads at its beam ends.

Myojuji Hondo in Bungotakada, Oita, was built around 1902 to drawings by Sasaki Iwajiro, an Imperial Household Artist, and was registered nationally in 2018.

A stone-walled canal running along a plateau ridge in Taketa, Oita. Rebuilt from a wooden flume in the 1920s, registered in 1996, it still waters 698 hectares.

On the Mikuma River bank at Hita, 25 metres of mortared cobble rise about three metres, topped by a metre-high brick fence with iron gates above the river steps.

A late Edo well behind a Hita merchant house: an andesite curb cut with half-lap joints, ringed by a stone washing floor and roofed by a small gabled shelter.

Built in 1816 in Hita's merchant quarter, this 22-metre townhouse carries plaster walls, tiled namako banding and a low eave of heavy pantiles above the street.