Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A small early Showa laboratory in front of Kamotsuru's No. 2 Brewhouse in Saijo: a clapboard building with two rooms, each entered under a gently curved gable.

Early Taisho L-shaped brewhouse of 918 sq m behind Kamotsuru's No. 2 front wing in Saijo, its upper floor one room; the only listing registered as hard to reproduce.

Early Taisho brick chimney west of Kamotsuru's No. 3 Brewhouse in Saijo: 23.4 m of English bond, tallest of the four, lettered for the third brewery on steel bands.

Late Meiji brick chimney beside Kamotsuru's No. 2 Brewhouse in Saijo: 14 m of English bond with a corbelled crown and the Kamotsuru name; oldest of the four stacks.

Late Meiji core brewhouse of Kamotsuru in Saijo, ridge running east-west, its front faced with namako tiles below white plaster and lattice windows; still brewing.

Late Meiji wing running north from Kamotsuru's No. 2 front range in Saijo, with namako tiles and white plaster, its long wall broken by narrow three-bar windows.

Late Meiji main well of Kamotsuru's No. 2 Brewhouse in Saijo, a 40 cm hexagon of 19 cm cut stone now enclosed indoors; the only well registered as a model of design.

Late Meiji well in the southeast corner of Kamotsuru's head-office site in Saijo, built of round fieldstone, unlike the brewery's three hexagonal registered wells.

Early Showa brick chimney of Kamotsuru's No. 8 Brewhouse in Saijo: 16.9 m of English bond in steel bands with a ladder, the brand name lettered on three faces.

The early Showa studio of Nihonga painter Kodama Kibo, moved from Sendagi in Tokyo to Kamotsuru's Horaian guest house in Saijo in 2005; refined and not open.

The 1927 head office of Kamotsuru Sake Brewery in Saijo: a two-story wooden Western-style building with a tiled hip roof, clapboard walls and close-set sash windows.

Late Taisho brewhouse of 1,099 sq m at the north end of Kamotsuru's site in Saijo, largest of the 19, with namako tilework and a steam vent; it closed in 1995.

Late Taisho well outside Kamotsuru's No. 4 Brewhouse in Saijo: a low hexagonal cut-stone curb over a round shaft under a well roof; the largest of four wells.

Late Taisho brick chimney beside Kamotsuru's No. 4 Brewhouse in Saijo: 22 m of English bond with a corbelled crown, lettered for the fourth brewery; twin of No. 3.

Villa of 1935 on Shimokamagari Island in Kure, Hiroshima, built by a construction magnate from Manchuria, with a tiled exterior styled on Chinese brick halls.

Timber clubhouse of 1907 in Etajima, Hiroshima, built for navy sailors and petty officers, with a gabled porch and balcony; preserved by volunteers, open by booking.

Single-storey navy club hall of 1905 moved from Kure to Etajima, Hiroshima, in 1928, with a martial arts hall and games room behind the main Kaiyusha building.

Stone hoanden of 1936 in a former schoolyard in Mihara, Hiroshima, just 1.7 metres square, with Doric-style columns and a curved roof topped by a jewel finial.

Timber village office of 1954 on Momoshima island in Onomichi, Hiroshima, with a hall and stage upstairs, converted in 2021 into a guesthouse and art event space.

Western-style bakery of 1934 on a corner of the white-walled main street of Joge, Fuchu, Hiroshima, with arched windows and reliefs; the exterior is always viewable.

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