Taishō
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A Taisho-period earthen storehouse for family valuables at the Hoashi estate in Hetsugi, Oita, on a raised stone platform, each floor a single room. Registered 2006.
A 1916 reception wing at the Hoashi estate in Hetsugi, Oita, its mortar walls scored to pass for stone, with Western and tatami rooms. Registered 2006; a restaurant.
A 530-square-metre Taisho range at Usa in Oita joining the temple kitchen, a 28-mat meeting room and a wing housing envoys of subordinate temples. Listed 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.
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 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.