Edo

Dated to the early 1700s, Shoboji Temple Kannon Hall is a small east-facing hall whose southern half divides into two sanctuaries behind a fully bracketed partition.

Built in 1802, this two-storey plastered storehouse at Shoboji Temple carries a detached roof and frames each opening in the shape of a torii under the temple crest.

Built in 1704 and the oldest of the six registered buildings at Shoboji Temple, this sutra repository sets temple bracketing above the walls of a storehouse.

A four-legged gate of the later Edo period, Shoboji Temple Main Gate opens the precinct on Sado Island and gathers a dragon and mythical beasts overhead.

Built in 1820, this open bell tower at Shoboji Temple is one bay square, its posts leaning inward and every coffer of its ceiling carrying a painting.

Built in 1721, Shoboji Temple Main Hall on Sado Island keeps a six-room hojo plan and tucks the founder's hall under a dropped rear roof. Registered in 2011.

Sesonji Temple Red Gate, a mid-Edo four-legged gate before the Main Hall on Sado, links ridge and purlins with curved shrimp beams and was registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Front Gate, a bracket-arm gate at the roadside entrance of a Sado temple, dates to about 1800, has a plank ceiling, and was registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Household Goods Storehouse on Sado, built in 1831 and moved in 1887, frames its upper windows in torii-shaped plaster and was registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Treasure House, a late-Edo clay storehouse on high ground at a Sado temple, has a separate okiyane roof and ornate plaster relief, registered in 2006.

Nine years older than the main hall it adjoins, this 1785 priests' wing in Tainai, Niigata, was registered in 2018 for its sequence of shoin reception rooms.

Built in 1794 in Tainai, Niigata, this Shin Buddhist main hall was registered in 2018 for its design: dragon carvings on the entrance canopy and oversized struts.

Dairinji's sutra repository of 1857 is a small plastered storehouse. Its canopy beam is carved with grapes and a squirrel, and cloud-and-dragon work rings the altar.

Dairinji's Sanmon of 1863 is a doorless bell-tower gate dense with carving. Its upper storey holds a bell attributed to Living Treasure Katori Masahiko.

Dairinji's outer gate of about 1852 is a four-legged gate on the old Yonezawa road, its round and square pillars rising from a stone platform on the central axis.

An 1806 open belfry in Joetsu with close-set brackets and carved panels, housing a 1783 bell that was taken in 1944 and returned the next year, the temple says.

A three-bay 1827 gate in Joetsu with Zen-style triple bracketing, a big hip-and-gable roof, and unpainted keyaki carved with Chinese legends and zodiac animals.

Built in 1827 with the Great Gate, this 56 m wall in Joetsu turns forward at each end, with five rank lines on its white street face and plain boards inside.

Choonji Temple Kannon Hall in Ojiya, Niigata, is an 1817 hall whose three-step brackets carry carved sacred birds and beasts. It was registered in 2018.

Choonji Temple Main Gate in Ojiya, Niigata, is a 2.9-meter four-legged gate of the late 1700s with round columns and carved gables, registered in 2018.