Taishō
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The Sojiji Sanshokan, built in 1920, is an all-zelkova koraimon with a guardhouse, and its plaque recalls three pines at the old Noto site. Registered in 2005.
Built in 1915, the Sojiji Shiundai is the chief abbot's audience hall: a long hip-and-gable exterior with a karahafu porch and calm shoin rooms. Registered in 2005.
Donated by Murai Kichibei in 1915, the Sojiji Bell and Drum Tower has a passage below and a bell above, mixing railed verandas and Zen windows. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Shoryo, built in 1915, is a Zen study hall in a plain residential style, with an earthen floor and slatted doors, next to the Daisodo. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Bell Tower of 1915 is an open belfry with 2:1 bay spacing and raking corner posts, the only structure at the temple listed as hard to reproduce.
The Sojiji Taihokan joins a 1915 Owari Tokugawa reception hall, moved here in 1957, to a karahafu entrance saved from a quake-damaged 1912 building. Registered 2005.
The Sojiji Hikari Kannon Pedestal, carved in 1923, is a tapering hexagonal granite base with Sanskrit syllables and petal ornaments that holds up a Kannon statue.
Built around 1915, the Sojiji Hyakken Corridor runs 142 meters past the Buddha Hall, with three gates named for morning, midday and night. Registered in 2005.
The Sojiji Buddha Hall in Yokohama, built in 1915, pairs a mokoshi skirt roof with three-stepped brackets and a plan split by two central columns. Registered 2005.
Built in 1925, the Sojiji Mukai Karamon is a cypress-bark gate with karahafu gables front and back and deep carving, opened only for ceremonies. Registered 2005.
The largest and latest of the five buildings, added around 1922 by second owner Hara Sankei. Its eastern part is built out over the sloping ground on tall posts.
The oldest of five thatched buildings in Hakone Gora Park, this farmhouse-style tea room by tea master Masuda Don’o has a sunken hearth and old salvaged timber.
The garden’s only non-tea building, a small bathhouse raised over a large natural boulder with a raw log frame, once the rock bath of the former mountain villa.
A grass-hut style tea room west of Hakuun-do, attributed to Ogi Rodo, with a tiny two-mat-plus-daime room and the unusual omission of a crawl-in door.
The waiting pavilion at the head of the garden path, its southeast corner cut away and spanned by a curved log with small rafters fanning into a decorative eave.
Built in 1918 as Baron Fujita Heitaro's villa and registered in 2001, Hakone Kowakien Kihinkan faces east so its glazed main room catches the moon over Myojogatake.
The older half of a Hakone inn at Gora, this late-Taisho timber building is linked to the main house by a corridor over the road. A ten-mat tsuzuki-ma survives.
Moved to the bank of the Sukumogawa in 1987, this low sukiya villa with cedar-bark wainscoting was registered in 2005 and now serves stone-milled soba.
A timber-framed stone storehouse of 1916 in Odawara, dated by an old photograph. Iron bands added after the 1923 earthquake still grip its grey walls, left exposed.
The Hirayama Bridge in Aikawa, Kanagawa, opened in 1913 with one steel and two timber trusses, all steel since 1926, is a 112-metre truss bridge, now for walkers.