Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Late Edo farmhouse of a rural samurai family at Onoue in Ozu, Kumamoto, with two wings joined by a linking room; not the Eto residence designated at Jinnai.

Village stage of 1953 at Okawa Aso Shrine in Yamato, Kumamoto, with a chanter's platform and a fully open front spanned by one beam, in the home of Seiwa Bunraku.

A 3-meter-square Kannon hall of 1957 in a Yamaga merchant garden, with a pyramid tile roof, railed veranda, folding panel doors, degumi brackets and a kaerumata.

A 20-meter timber wall of about 1940 running west from the Omori main house on Yamaga's old Kikuchi road, plastered on the street side, with carved brackets inside.

An earthen-walled storehouse in the corner of the Omori compound in Yamaga, known as the miso store: two Meiji ranges joined in an L, sloping beams and relief posts.

An 1872 merchant house on Yamaga's old Kikuchi road: a plastered town-house wing with a tortoiseshell namako base, a Taisho Western dining room, a hipped west wing.

A 10-meter timber wall of about 1940 on the west side of the Omori compound in Yamaga, turning at its south end for a side gate, with stone buttresses inside.

A Meiji-period stone beam bridge at Mori in Ozu, Kumamoto, 2.6 metres long and 2.5 wide, carrying the approach to the Okamoto front gate over an irrigation channel.

Built about 1840 at Mori in Ozu, Kumamoto, this 34-square-metre timber stable turns its boarded flank to the south lane, part of a street wall registered in 1999.

The Okamoto Family Residence Rear Gate in Ozu, Kumamoto, is a small late Edo yakuimon whose fence matches the boarding of the storehouse and stable beside it.

The Okamoto Family Residence Front Gate in Ozu, Kumamoto, is a late Edo yakuimon with roofed wing walls, set back from the road to give it a samurai bearing.

The Okamoto Family Residence Three-Storey Storehouse in Ozu, Kumamoto, is a mid-Meiji earthen storehouse finished with namako-kabe and a band of drip tiles.

The Okamoto Family Residence Main House in Ozu, Kumamoto, dated to 1840 by its ridge tag, is a country samurai home with a double roof, namako-kabe and a U-plan.

The Okamoto Family Residence Outdoor Toilet in Ozu, Kumamoto, is a tiny early Showa privy with a brick plinth and an offset roof designed for ventilation.

The Okamoto Family Residence Fence in Ozu, Kumamoto, is a late Edo roofed plank fence on a rounded-stone footing, braced inside by stone buttress posts.

The Okamoto Family Residence South Storehouse in Ozu, Kumamoto, is a mid-Meiji rice store whose weatherboarded base matches the fence and stable on its lane.

The Okamoto Family Water Purification Tank in Ozu, Kumamoto, is an early Showa concrete tower that filtered channel or well water through charcoal and sand.

The 1934 concrete gate and 40-metre wall of the Former Amakusa Education Hall in Kumamoto, registered in 2006, matching the design of the hall's entrance porch.

A curved five-arch concrete railway bridge of about 1938 beside the old Kitazato Station in Oguni, Kumamoto. Now a footbridge at the end of the 4 km trail; 60 m.

A six-arch concrete viaduct of about 1939 in Oguni, Kumamoto: 116 m long, four 20 m arches, pierced spandrels and a local bamboo-reinforcement story. On the trail.

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