Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Oita

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.

The sutra repository of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, a plastered hall of the early 18th century, holds an octagonal revolving sutra case at its centre.

The main gate of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, a mid-Edo four-legged gate 3.5 metres wide, keeps an older style with a large gable strut and carved waves.

The bell tower of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, dated to 1761 by an ink inscription, has splayed posts, a raised coffered ceiling and a broad peony carving.

The middle gate of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, a late Edo four-legged gate 4.5 metres wide, bears carved baku, lions, qilin and chrysanthemum struts.

The main hall of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, built in about 1902 to designs by Sasaki Iwajiro, is a 764-square-metre Shin Buddhist hall with fine eaves.

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.

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