Edo

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 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.

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.

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.