Meiji
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Standing at the entrance to the approach at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this Meiji-period gate has no doors and spreads low side walls to left and right.
Raised in 1907 on the stone platform before the Founder's Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this copper-roofed gate carries an undulating eave curve on both faces.
Attached behind the Hall of Worship at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this 1888 hall for the guardian deity sits low beneath a shallow, deeply eaved roof.
Raised in 1886 at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this 183-square-metre hall stacks two gables above its front and has a connecting beam carved in the round as a dragon.
Built about 1888 west of the worship hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this plain copper-roofed building is linked to it by a corridor and has fanned rafters.
Standing beside the Kagura Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this open pavilion of 11 square metres shelters a stone water basin beneath a flat panelled ceiling.
Morimura Bridge in Oyama, Shizuoka, built in 1906 for a tramway from a spinning mill to the station, is a 39-metre steel Pratt truss, an early Japanese-built truss.