Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late Edo storehouse facing the harbour of Tomo, Fukuyama, registered in 1997, now displaying artefacts from Sakamoto Ryoma's ship Iroha-maru.

A late Edo stone check dam high in a Dodogawa side valley in Fukuyama, Hiroshima: 3.8 metres of dry random walling, quoined corners and diagonal courses.

Built around 1905 on the old Saigoku Kaido in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, the Ota Family Residence Main House pairs a latticed ground floor with black tile above.

A late Meiji storehouse moved in the early Showa era to the rear of the Ota family estate in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, with a tiled drip course and a gable door.

An early Showa tea pavilion on the Ota family estate in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, joined by corridors to the main house and annex, and a woven ajiro tea room ceiling.

An early Showa reception wing in the corner of the Ota family estate in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, with glazed doors to the garden and a formal alcove between shelves.

An early Showa storehouse on the Ota family estate in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, with plaster walls, a namako-kabe tile base, and a south gable trimmed with hoods.

An early Showa yakuimon gate and 33 metres of tile-capped fences on the north side of the Ota family estate in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, best seen from the lane.

A c.1929 shop-house of a former distiller on a Shiraichi corner, with projecting eaves, a glass-lit earth passage and upstairs rooms once open behind storm shutters.

A c.1929 single-storey workshop of a shochu and mirin maker in Shiraichi, with a lees room, sunken kettle pit and woodstore under an exposed king post truss roof.

A late Edo storehouse on a Shiraichi lane, plastered white right up over its eaves, with a heavy clay door, few windows and a double-beamed roof frame upstairs.

A c.1929 annex linked to the main house by a 2-storey corridor: office and workroom below, paired reception rooms above with alcove, shelves and a built-in desk.

An early Showa sake wholesaler's house on Saijo's old highway, Higashihiroshima, registered in 2021. Black tile faces its upper storey, with wing walls at each end.

A 1920s-30s plastered storehouse set behind the Okada merchant house in Higashihiroshima's sake district, registered in 2021, with a coffered ceiling over its door.

Raised in 1925 and opened in 1927, this playhouse in Fuchū keeps its revolving stage, under-stage pit and hanamichi walkway beneath a Western king post truss roof.

Timber school building of 1929 in Jinsekikogen, Hiroshima, with a north corridor and south classrooms; one of the few timber schools left in the prefecture.

A Taisho house in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, registered in 2012. Its 231 sq m plan has a cusped gable at the porch and a coved coffered ceiling in the main room.

A 31 sq m Taisho annexe in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, linked to the main house by a roofed corridor. A cusped window and lobed bamboo lattice show unusual care.

A late Meiji gate in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, 6.3 m wide with a 3 m plank-door opening and a wicket door. Registered in 2012, it predates the house it faces.

Early Showa well house at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, an open gabled shelter over a stone-curbed well that supplies the brewing water.

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