Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

This early-Showa gate and wall guard the site's east front. A single-bay armgate meets a 13-meter wall, both in fine zelkova, lending the boundary a quiet dignity.

Concrete bell tower of 1922 in Shiwa, Higashihiroshima, built to hang a bell sent by emigrants in America; 7.8 metres high, it still sounds the time by siren.

Built in 1930 as the Jōge Police Station, this timber building in Fuchū City reproduces the look of reinforced concrete, with a tower rising over its entrance porch.

Sukiya annex of 1936 by Hirata Masaya, moved from an Osaka villa to Ikenoura Park on Shimokamagari island in Kure, Hiroshima; noted for its veranda and tea room.

Shorinbo's 1934 Onari-no-ma in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is a three-room guest wing with an alcove-fitted principal room and its own bath and toilet. Registered in 2011.

Shorinbo's 1744 bell tower in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is an open one-bay belfry on a stone base with inward-leaning round posts and two-step brackets. Listed in 2011.

Shorinbo's 1934 guest hall in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, has a karahafu porch and a 17-and-a-half-mat audience room. Listed in 2011 as a model modern Shin audience hall.

Shorinbo's 1752 sutra storehouse in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is a 3.8-metre-square plastered store whose walls carry timber brackets and carvings. Registered in 2011.

Shorinbo's priests' quarters in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, built in 1801, is a 22-by-14-metre gable-entry kuri with an earthen entrance hall, registered in 2011 as a model.

Shorinbo's main gate in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, dates from 1665 and is the temple's oldest building: a copper-roofed four-legged gate with cusped eaves, listed in 2011.

Shorinbo's 1852 main hall in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is a 629-square-metre Shin Buddhist hall with a tiled hip-and-gable roof, registered in 2011 as a model of its type.

This late Edo corridor at Shorinbo in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, links hall and residence; a plaster wall with bell windows splits it into two lanes. Registered in 2011.

Built around 1902 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Rear Gate and Earthen Wall includes a 115-metre wall raised by villagers to welcome a new doctor.

The Takiguchi Family Residence Woodshed in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a Taisho-era shed with an open firewood bay, a pickling room and a silkworm loft upstairs.

Built around 1926 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Guest Hall and Corridor pairs a tall irimoya-roofed hall with shachi tiles and a corridor split by a wall.

The Takiguchi Family Residence Main House in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a 1913 timber home with a koryo-beamed entrance and eight rooms split into public and private.

Built around 1913 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Middle Gate and Side Wall is a log-built yakuimon gate and 12-metre wall dividing entrance court and garden.

The Takiguchi Family Residence Storehouse in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a Taisho-era store with an okiyane roof and white plaster walls, shaping the street view.

Built around 1902 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Nagayamon Gate and Clinic joined a gatehouse with inpatient rooms to a clinic, a late-Meiji rural hospital.

The Takiguchi Family Residence Barn in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a Taisho-era outbuilding that stabled the doctor's carriage horse and once held silkworm work.

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