Meiji
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In the garden north of the Hoashi branch main house, a mid-Meiji plastered pawn storehouse with a tiled base stands on cut stone behind its own fence and gate.
Built in 1906 on Hetsugi Honmachi's main street, this 2-story shop house pairs an earthen passage with fine guest rooms, the only one of 11 listed as hard to copy.
A mid-Meiji wing behind the Hoashi branch main house: one 8-mat room, a wide veranda on the inner garden, and a tile-capped fence and gate registered with it.
A mid-Meiji plastered tool storehouse on the Hoashi branch estate's northwest edge, with a namako-kabe base, two iron-shuttered windows and rows of rain tiles.
A mid-Meiji street wall at the Hoashi branch residence: cut stone, clapboard and plaster with two lattice windows, ending in a small garden gate 1.8 metres wide.
Built in 1889 beside the Hoashi grain store, this single-story miso storehouse is the only timber-framed one of four, boarded on its west and north walls.
The mid-Meiji ridge gate of the Hoashi branch residence: 2.7 metres wide, tiled, set back beside the main house, with a wicket door and plaster walls on both sides.
West of the Hoashi branch kitchen, a 12 square metre mid-Meiji bathing block joins a washing room and a bath room at right angles under two kinds of tiled roof.
An 1885 hexagonal sutra repository at Usa in Oita, plaster-sealed on a stepped stone podium, holding an octagonal revolving case inside. 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.
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.