Edo
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Shogyoji Temple Main Gate in Nakatsu is a late Edo four-legged gate 4.3 m wide, with deep carved tie-beams and a gable strut shaped like a dragon. Registered 2013.
Shogyoji Temple Bell Tower in Nakatsu is a small open belfry of the late Edo period, with Zen-style stone bases and closely packed tail-rafter brackets. Listed 2013.
Shogyoji Temple Flanking Walls in Nakatsu run 20 m from the gate. These late Edo walls have a washed-mortar base, 5 ruled lines and a wicket door. Registered 2013.
Shogyoji Temple Main Hall in Nakatsu is a late Edo Shin Buddhist hall about 27 m across, with a gomon plan, zelkova frame and coffered ceilings. Registered in 2013.
The Jodoji Temple Ippakuko Mausoleum in Oita holds the memorial stone of Matsudaira Tadanao, grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu, under a cusped gable and fine brackets.
The Jodoji Temple Priests' Quarters in Oita is a late Edo residence under a hipped tile roof, with chamfered posts and a temple tradition linking it to a castle.
The Jodoji Temple Entrance and Corridor in Oita links the Main Hall and Priests' Quarters; its floor turns from boards to tatami. Boat timbers are said to be reused.
The Jodoji Temple Main Hall in Oita, rebuilt in 1849 after a fire, is a seven-bay Jodo-sect hall with a tiled hip-and-gable roof and a projecting sanctuary.
The stone bridge and channel wall before the gate of the Higashi Betsuin in Usa. A late-Edo girder bridge, 9.5 m wide with nine cambered girders, framing the front.
The sutra repository of the Higashi Betsuin in Usa, completed in 1799, the compound's oldest building. Inside turns an octagonal revolving case in a fine storehouse.
The drum tower of the Higashi Betsuin in Usa, a late-Edo two-storey structure housing a drum. With cusped windows east and west, it accents the temple skyline.
The earthen wall and stone base on the north edge of the Higashi Betsuin in Usa. A late-Edo plaster wall on random-coursed andesite, shaping the historic streetscape.
An 1864 yakuimon gate at the Tada headman's estate in Bungo-Ono, Oita, set before the Onari-yashiki to receive the Usuki lord, with a gently sweeping roof.
An 1864 hall at the Tada headman's estate in Bungo-Ono, Oita, built to receive the lord of Usuki and later used as the Meiji district office. Registered property.
An 1864 rice storehouse at the Tada headman's estate in Bungo-Ono, Oita, raised on a stone base with namako tiles and plastered walls. Registered property.
The 1864 main house of the Tada headman's estate in Bungo-Ono, Oita, set beside the Onari-yashiki around a garden and given a deliberately humbler design.
A late Edo ridge gate two bays wide on the street front of the Hoashi estate in Hetsugi, Oita, with sliding solid and lattice doors. Registered in 2006.
The 1865 main house of the Hoashi sake family in Hetsugi, Oita, with a samurai-style formal entrance and raised reception room. Registered in 2006; now a gallery.
A late Edo bracket-arm gate beside the formal entrance of the Hoashi main house in Hetsugi, Oita; with its 12-metre wall it screens off the garden. Registered 2006.
A mid-Edo four-legged gate at Usa in Oita, 4.8 metres wide, its carving concentrated in the eaves. Oldest of the temple's 11 registered buildings, listed 2016.