Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Lower Gate in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a service gate of about 1894 with one wide door, built for moving goods and carts.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Main House in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is an 1894 timber landowner's house of 769 square metres, prized for its fine carpentry.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Row House in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a tiny 1894 building of 12 square metres that once lodged the estate's menservants.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Wall in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a tiled board fence of about 1894, 161 metres long, with a plastered front of 30 metres.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Central Gate in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a small gate of about 1894 that led to the kitchen, with lattice screens and a door.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Miso Storehouse in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is an 1894 corner storehouse where the family made its own miso and soy sauce.
Taisho-era wall of Aso welded tuff in Kikuchi, Kumamoto. Coursed nunozumi masonry, trapezoidal in section, 46 metres long, once nearly twice its present height.
A Taisho farmhouse in Kikuchi, Kumamoto, registered in 2013: timber from the family's own hillside, heavy beams over the doma, transoms carved with Aso's peaks.
The Yano Family Residence (Shintaku) Main House in Nishihara, Kumamoto, was built in 1929 by a village head of the Yano branch family, with a formal zashiki.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Rear Gate in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a small 1870 yakuimon gate on the north road, flanked by roofed board fences.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Front Gate in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is an 1870 yakuimon gate with heavy posts and roofed earthen walls, visible from the road.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Storehouse in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is an 1889 kura with namako tile walls, white lime plaster and tiled drip ledges.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Main House in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is an 1873 landowner's home dated by its ridge tablet, with rooms styled on samurai houses.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Middle Gate in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a small 1870 gate in a roofed bamboo fence that led from the compound to the fields.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Barn in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a long 1889 outbuilding, weatherboarded almost to the eaves on the side facing the road.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Miso Storehouse in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a small 1889 kura whose street front is weatherboarded level with its fences.
Former Yasuda Bank branch of 1925 in Yamaga, Kumamoto, with an Ionic-style historicist front, now a museum of Yamaga lanterns made only of washi paper and glue.
Built in 1880, the Yoshioka Amida hall is a tiny 3.8-square-metre worship space enshrining Amida Nyorai behind latticed doors. One of six structures registered in 2016.
Said to have been moved from Kumamoto city, the Yoshioka Edo storehouse is a small two-storey plastered dozo, one of six family structures registered in 2016.
Built around 1885 in Kutami, Yamaga, the Yoshioka main house anchored a sericulture estate. Its hip-and-gable roof and six-room plan center a compound registered in 2016.
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