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An 1877 hall facing east in the Tairyuji precinct in Anan, Tokushima. Built to worship the Founder's Image Hall behind it, and densely carved. Registered in 2013.
An 1895 building at Tairyuji in Anan, Tokushima, joining an abbot's hall and a kitchen wing. At 944 square metres it is the largest of the nine registered buildings.
An 1878 hall west of the Daishi Hall in the Tairyuji precinct in Anan, Tokushima. At 16 square metres it is the smallest of the temple's nine registered buildings.
The Takahashi Family Residence Indigo Fermenting House in Tokushima is an early Meiji two-storey nedoko where indigo was fermented into dye; registered in 1999.
The Takahashi Family Residence Front Gate in Tokushima is a samurai-style yakuimon gate of 1887 to 1896, set back from the boundary; registered in 1999, private.
The Takahashi Family Residence Storehouse in Tokushima is an early Meiji indigo storehouse with a stone base and boarded lower walls, registered in 1999.
The Takahashi Family Residence West Barn in Tokushima is an early Meiji indigo building with a tall stone base and few small windows, registered in 1999.
The Takahashi Family Residence Neribei Wall in Tokushima runs 39.1 meters from the gate, built of small green schist stones under plaster; registered in 1999.
The Tatsukawa Family Residence Inner Storehouse is a small 1903 clay-walled store behind the main house, with a hongawara roof and namako tiles facing the courtyard.
The Tatsukawa Family Residence Storehouse is a mid-Meiji clay-walled store in Tsuji, 7.9 m square, with deep canopies and latticed windows under small tile hoods.
Built around 1903 for Tsuji's shredded-tobacco makers, the Tatsukawa Family Residence Main House has a low upper floor, a sode-udatsu wall and fine timber rooms.
An 1897 hall in Tsurugi Town, Tokushima, marking station 28 of the Habashikoku pilgrimage. Open on all four sides, it was registered in 2017 with nine others.
A middle Meiji timber workshop at the rear of a tobacco merchant's lot in Ikeda, Tokushima. Its earth and plank floors record how the shredding work was zoned.
An 1891 merchant house in Ikeda, Tokushima, built on the shredded tobacco trade: a 15.9-metre frontage, tiled fire-break walls at each end, a Western parlour.
A mid-Meiji fermentation storehouse at the Nakawa Shoten brewery in Ikeda, Tokushima, registered in 2019, whose roof of braced logs spans a hall of tanks.
A rare two-story wooden lantern above Tokushima's Yoshino River, built 1884. It packs full temple-hall carpentry — fan rafters, cusped windows, kara-hafu gable — into a 15-square-meter structure registered nationally in 2011.
A single-bay yakuimon of the early Meiji era at Hashikuraji in Miyoshi, Tokushima, this gate fronts the abbot's quarters and is finished with a coffered ceiling.
Built in 1896 at the top of Mount Hōju in western Tokushima, Hashikuraji's Temizuya stands at the head of the 278-step Heart Sutra staircase, directly in front of the Honden. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in October 2011.
Built in 1880 on the old stone path up to Hashikuraji in Miyoshi, Tokushima, this two-storey gate carries Zen-style bracketing, cusped windows and a disputed origin.
Hiraoka Family Residence Main House, Kaiyo: an 1872 farmhouse whose two-story shell wraps a staggered four-room plan and a formal central entrance hall.