Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built around 1883, the Yoshioka fence runs 35 metres on a split-stone base, its bracing matching the gate along the street edge in Kutami. One of six registered in 2016.

Built around 1889, the Yoshioka Meiji storehouse doubled as a stable, with a cart passage and iron tethering fittings inside. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Built around 1883, the Yoshioka gate is a variant yakuimon about 2.3 metres wide, its braced doors matching the adjoining fence. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Registered in 2013, this 1888 house is the oldest building at Yoshino Ryokan in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto, and its four living rooms and Buddhist altar room still survive.

Registered in 2013, this early Taisho two-storey block at Yoshino Ryokan in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto, began as a bathhouse and keeps lath windows and coloured glass.

A long mid-Meiji house of the Yoshimura brewing family in Kawashiri, Kumamoto, with family rooms to the east and a northwest guest suite with carved transoms.

A white-plastered 1908 storehouse in the northwest corner of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto, linked to the main house by a corridor across the garden.

The oldest building of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: an 1869 black-plastered storehouse whose roof rests on two ridge-line posts and a jimune beam.

An early Showa wall on the west edge of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: concrete posts, mortared slag-brick panels and a cap of peaked tiles.

The mid-Meiji west gate and south wall of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: a copper-edged gate with lattice doors and a wall faced in boards and bark.

The mid-Meiji east gate and east wall of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: a small bracket-arm gate with lattice doors and a 13-meter board fence.

A 1938 wing of Kinparo Ryokan at Hinagu Onsen: an 80-mat upstairs hall with a woven boat-bottom ceiling and natural-timber alcoves, plus a 15 m brick chimney.

The early Showa gate and wall of Kinparo Ryokan at Hinagu Onsen: a 2.3 m roofed gate with slatted transom and a 26 m tiled wall of boards and clay, registered 2009.

A 1909 three-storey timber inn at Hinagu Onsen, Yatsushiro, with eaves and glass doors on every floor of its street front and a 1914 wing; registered in 2009.

The Ikaho Kanko Hotel, built in 1929 at the entrance to the Ikaho hot springs for foreign guests, is a timber hotel crowned by a tower like a five-storied pagoda.

A 1908 brick chimney at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, about 14 meters tall in English bond with a steel top, linked underground to the steaming room.

A 1908 work building at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, where rice was washed and steamed and sake was bottled, with a flue running to the brick chimney.

A 1909 brewhouse at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, with a koji room in its west lean-to and a wide interior now used for concerts, markets and exhibits.

An early Meiji farmhouse moved to Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, in 1900 as shop, office and home, with a wide earthen floor and a four-room grid plan.

A small 1908 plastered storehouse at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, built to hold license papers and ledgers, with a separate placed roof and plaster shutters.

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