Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Okayama

A four-legged gate of 1806 before the Founder's Hall of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: tiled gable roof, wing walls and a carved lozenge panel. Registered in 2009.

The 1764 sutra repository of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: a 2-bay clay-walled storehouse with a pyramid roof, karahafu porch and ogee windows. Registered 2009.

The mid-Edo priests' quarters of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: a 2-story, 432-square-meter building whose gable facade shows its posts, beams and tie beams.

The late-Edo entrance hall and dining hall of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: a karahafu gable and formal step for guests in front, a monks' refectory behind.

The late-Meiji two-story Main Gate of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, facing east before the Buddha Hall: a single-bay gate with bracket sets and a coffered ceiling.

Late-Edo walls flanking the Main Gate of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: 2.5 m andesite retaining walls in tortoise-shell masonry topped by white plastered earthen walls.

A mid-Meiji study hall joined to the abbot's quarters of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, whose 4.5-mat room has an alcove beam of natural wood. Registered in 2009.

An open bell tower of 1818 at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: 4 inward-leaning posts, bracket sets and a low, gently pitched tiled roof. Registered in April 2009.

An early-Edo well southwest of the Buddha Hall at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: thin granite slabs lap-jointed into a wide curb. Said to be the oldest on the grounds.

The 1814 Zen meditation hall of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, with ogee windows, raised sitting platforms and a diagonal tile floor. Registered in April 2009.

A roofed kitchen well of 1814 south of the tenzo's kitchen at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: a granite curb under a tiled shelter open on 2 sides. Registered 2009.

A granite girder bridge of 1828 east of the Main Gate steps at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: arched girders, stone slabs and ridged railings. Registered in 2009.

A late-Edo roofed well against the dining hall veranda of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, with a granite curb and a bucket hung from the beam. Registered in 2009.

The 1735 Buddha Hall at the heart of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: a Zen hall with fan rafters and round windows in place of the usual ogee type. Registered 2009.

The late-Edo abbot's quarters of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: the largest building on the grounds at 486 square meters, with 4 tiers of beams in its gables.

A late-Edo white-plastered wall, 65 m long, around the forecourt of the abbot's quarters at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, changing height and coping along its length.

A 1793 clay-walled storehouse behind the priests' quarters of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, its namako tilework carried up the corners and under the windows.

Built in 1893 at the northwest corner of an island family's plot in Kasaoka, Okayama, this registered storehouse carries namako tilework and a banded upper wall.

Facing the lane before the main house on Manabeshima in Kasaoka, Okayama, this early Meiji gate bends the four-legged type: shallow depth, coloured earth facade.

Muku Bridge is a stone bridge built in 1920 within the grounds of Tanjoji Temple in Kumenan Town, Okayama Prefecture. Spanning the legendary Katame River, this 7.3-meter-long, 2.6-meter-wide structure is a nationally registered tangible cultural property and an integral part of the historic landscape of the temple, which marks the birthplace of Honen, founder of the Jodo (Pure Land) sect of Buddhism.