Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Early Showa brick chimney about 12 metres tall at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, in English bond with a corbelled top; a local landmark.

Early Meiji earthen brewing storehouse at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, laid out in a T with white plaster walls; the main brewing building.

Late Meiji earthen storage storehouse 39 metres long at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, with storage tanks inside; it shapes the brewery's look.

Late Taisho sukiya-style annex at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, with a formal eight-mat room, a veranda all round and polished-log beams.

Early Taisho timber building at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, part of a dwelling converted into a bottling house, with white plaster walls.

Early Meiji earthen store at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, converted from a household store into a packing house, with drip tiles on its gable.

Early Showa gate and wall at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima: a one-bay yakuimon flanked by tiled walls, 7.6 metres in all, forming the front.

Former bank office of 1921 in Kake, Akiota, Hiroshima: a single-storey timber building given pent roofs and plastered eaves to look like a two-storey town house.

East of the storehouses stands this square Taisho brick chimney, about 17.7 metres tall and laid in English bond, kept as a landmark on the Saijo sake street.

Built around 1953 beside the main house, this timber wing wraps a broad veranda toward a garden by Shigemori Mirei, its sukiya rooms planned as one with the view.

This Taisho earthen-walled block links the main house with the storehouses and now works as a store, its masonry recording the layout of the young Kamoizumi brewery.

Facing Saijo's sake street, Kamoizumi Shuzo's late-Meiji main house sets a merchant's earthen passage beside a formal ten-mat guest room behind a latticed front.

The brewery's smallest building, this 16-square-metre late-Meiji storehouse was moved whole by hikiya, its near-windowless walls edged with water-shedding tiles.

This large Taisho storehouse divides into East and Middle halves across a ground-floor passage, its white great-walls and red tile defining the Saijo brewery street.

Joining the passage on the west, this late-Taisho storehouse was refaced with namako-kabe under Shigemori Mirei's direction as the backdrop to the New Zashiki garden.

An early Meiji well in the corner of Kamotsuru's founding site in Saijo: a hexagonal cut-stone curb over a round fieldstone shaft, in use since the brewery began.

The smallest Kamotsuru listing in Saijo: an early Meiji two-story storehouse, plastered to the eaves and boarded inside, gable-end west beside its twin.

Kamotsuru's founding-site brewhouse in Saijo: an early Meiji earthen kura extended south in the Taisho and Showa eras, now the brewery shop and museum.

An early Meiji earthen brewhouse facing the west wing on Kamotsuru's founding site in Saijo, with octagonal roof timbers; now part of the shop and tour room.

A single-story early Meiji storehouse on Kamotsuru's founding site in Saijo, twin to the north storehouse but a meter wider and lower, both gables facing west.

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