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Tsuchiya Family Residence Koji Storehouse
Yamanashi 明治
Tsuchiya Family Residence Koji Storehouse

The Tsuchiya Family Residence Koji Storehouse in Koshu, Yamanashi, is a small early Meiji clay store built for making koji, the starter for miso, soy sauce and sake.

Tsuchiya Family Residence Rice Storehouse
Yamanashi 明治
Tsuchiya Family Residence Rice Storehouse

The Tsuchiya Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Koshu, Yamanashi: an early Meiji clay store for tenants' rent rice that has made brandy since the Showa 30s.

Tsuchiya Family Residence Zashiki Gate and Wall
Yamanashi 明治
Tsuchiya Family Residence Zashiki Gate and Wall

The Tsuchiya Family Residence Zashiki Gate and Wall in Koshu, Yamanashi: an early Meiji gate and 34 m tiled earthen wall enclosing the main house garden.

Tsuchiya Family Residence Main House
Yamanashi 明治
Tsuchiya Family Residence Main House

The Tsuchiya Family Residence Main House in Koshu, Yamanashi, is an early Meiji farmhouse with two extra roof levels built for silkworms, registered in 2017.

Tsuchiya Family Residence Bunko Storehouse
Yamanashi 明治
Tsuchiya Family Residence Bunko Storehouse

The Tsuchiya Family Residence Bunko Storehouse in Koshu, Yamanashi: an early Meiji clay store linked to the main house, first for books and bedding, now for wine.

Hagihara Family Residence West Storehouse
Yamanashi 明治
Hagihara Family Residence West Storehouse

An 1880 storehouse parlor at the back of the Hagihara lot in Katsunuma, dated by ink inscription, with a 14-mat room and a rare-wood alcove post. Registered 2018.

Hagihara Family Residence East Storehouse
Yamanashi 明治
Hagihara Family Residence East Storehouse

A mid-Meiji storehouse parlor on the old Koshu Kaido in Katsunuma, with two formal tatami rooms and stacked hinged-door windows on its street gable. Registered 2018.

Hagiwara Family Residence (Former Oki Family Residence) Oshian Setchin
Yamanashi 明治
Hagiwara Family Residence (Former Oki Family Residence) Oshian Setchin

A late Meiji tea-garden privy by the Oshian teahouse in Kofu, with a marble floor, a blue-and-white porcelain urinal and fanned rafters. Registered in 2025.

Minobusan Kuonji Enshido Hall
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Enshido Hall

The Enshido at Minobusan Kuonji is a small 1876 hall above the main buildings, housing a stone memorial tower, with fans and celestial maidens carved on its porch.

Minobusan Kuonji Kanromon Gate and Gatekeeper's Lodge
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Kanromon Gate and Gatekeeper's Lodge

The Kanromon at Minobusan Kuonji is an 1868 koraimon gate, moved in 1941, whose main posts carry the ridge directly, with a gatekeeper's lodge at the back.

Minobusan Kuonji Former Shoin
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Former Shoin

The Former Shoin at Minobusan Kuonji is an 1876 reception building whose heavy tiled exterior hides high ceilings and openwork carved transoms between its rooms.

Minobusan Kuonji Goshinkotsudo Hall
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Goshinkotsudo Hall

The Goshinkotsudo at Minobusan Kuonji is a white plastered octagon of 1881 that keeps relics of Nichiren around a golden stupa in a gilded, vividly painted interior.

Minobusan Kuonji Goshinkotsudo Worship Hall
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Goshinkotsudo Worship Hall

The Goshinkotsudo Worship Hall at Minobusan Kuonji, built in 1881 for Nichiren's 600th memorial, has Zen-style brackets, deep fanned eaves and a cusped porch gable.

Minobusan Kuonji Sanmon Gate
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Sanmon Gate

The Sanmon at Minobusan Kuonji is a two-storey Zen-style gate of 1907 with fanned rafters above and a plaque by the 79th abbot, at the foot of the Bodaitei steps.

Minobusan Kuonji Somon Teahouse
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Somon Teahouse

The Somon Teahouse at Minobusan Kuonji is a plain timber building of 1894 inside the outer gate that once received pilgrims, a rare tea station at a Nichiren temple.

Minobusan Kuonji Soshido Hall and Gokusho
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Soshido Hall and Gokusho

The Soshido at Minobusan Kuonji is the 1881 hall enshrining Nichiren, a T-shaped building with a carved inner sanctuary where the okaicho reveals his image.

Minobusan Kuonji Soshido Incense Burner Pavilion
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Soshido Incense Burner Pavilion

An 1879 canopy over the incense burner before the Soshido at Minobusan Kuonji, built in the Zen style with lion-head beam ends and a carved dragon on the ceiling.

Minobusan Kuonji Great Guest Hall
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Great Guest Hall

The Great Guest Hall at Minobusan Kuonji is a long 1886 reception hall with a grand curved-gable entrance and 5 tatami rooms, including a raised 20-mat chamber.

Minobusan Kuonji Great Bell Tower
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Great Bell Tower

The Great Bell Tower at Minobusan Kuonji is an open-sided tower of 1882 before the founder's hall, with thick round columns, deep bracketed eaves and carving.

Minobusan Kuonji Hokido Hall
Yamanashi 明治
Minobusan Kuonji Hokido Hall

The Hokido at Minobusan Kuonji is an 1883 hall, 10 bays by 9, whose earth-floored front room shows a huge central pillar and beams cut from giant trees.