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*A five-story pagoda also dates to [[1644]], and stands 36.18 meters tall. Like the famous pagoda at [[Toji|Tô-ji]], it maintains roughly the same width across its entire height, rather than tapering towards the top.
*A five-story pagoda also dates to [[1644]], and stands 36.18 meters tall. Like the famous pagoda at [[Toji|Tô-ji]], it maintains roughly the same width across its entire height, rather than tapering towards the top.
*The temple's Shiro Shoin ("white study") was built in [[1890]] to serve as a temporary ''shinden'' ("palace") following the destruction of the ''goten'' ("palace") in a fire in [[1887]]. A new ''shinden'' was built afterwards, and this structure was then renamed the Shiro Shoin. A series of ''[[fusuma]]'' (sliding screen) paintings decorating the walls of the ''[[shoin]]'' depicting pine trees are by ''[[Nihonga]]'' painter Fukunaga Seihan, and date to 1937.
*The temple's Shiro Shoin ("white study") was built in [[1890]] to serve as a temporary ''shinden'' ("palace") following the destruction of the ''goten'' ("palace") in a fire in [[1887]]. A new ''shinden'' was built afterwards, and this structure was then renamed the Shiro Shoin. A series of ''[[fusuma]]'' (sliding screen) paintings decorating the walls of the ''[[shoin]]'' depicting pine trees are by ''[[Nihonga]]'' painter Fukunaga Seihan, and date to 1937.
*The new ''shinden'' was built in [[1909]]-1914, and is considered a notable example of post-[[Meiji period]] wooden architecture. It is built in ''[[hinoki]]'' from the Kiso Imperial Forests, and is thatched with cedar shingles. It faces a pond garden to the north, and a dry garden to the south, and contains three rooms, the Jôdan, Chûdan, and Gedan. These are decorated with paintings by [[Hara Zaisen]], including one set depicting [[sakura|cherry blossoms]] and the [[Aoi Matsuri]] on the reverse side; other paintings in the ''shinden'' include images of Emperor Uda, and of a mountain stream. One such wall painting hides a secret room, known as the ''musha-kakushi'' (warrior hiding), a traditional symbolic room which theoretically could have held hidden Imperial guards, but was not actually used.
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