Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Takiguchi Family Residence Storeroom in Shobara, Hiroshima, is the estate's oldest building, a late-Meiji wing with a curved-beam loft and its original bath.

Main house of 1920 of the Takemuraya inn on the Onomichi Channel, Hiroshima: T-shaped, with a bold multi-ridged street front and delicate bamboo-rich rooms inside.

Gate and wall of 1920 at the Takemuraya inn in Onomichi, Hiroshima: a copper-roofed munemon and a black-plastered wall with blind-fitted windows lining the street.

Timber photo studio of 1928 in Kisa, Miyoshi, Hiroshima, by a local master carpenter, with a columned porch and paired windows shaped like a Kaiser moustache.

Former ryotei of about 1920 on the slope of Mount Senkoji in Onomichi, Hiroshima, in simple sukiya style with log rafters and an entrance on each floor; private.

The lowest Edo-period check dam on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima: a surviving 9.6-metre east wing of dry-laid granite with stepped split stone. Registered 2006

An 8.8-metre stone check dam of about 1835 on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, with stepped granite, an arched plan and a sagging crest. Registered 2006.

A 36-metre stone check dam of about 1832 on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, with stepped granite, an arched plan and a 1996 dig down to its bedrock.

A 26-metre stone check dam on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, where an Edo random-laid wing meets a Taisho diagonal wall and bulging apron. Registered 2006.

A 32-metre check dam on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, rebuilt in the Taisho era with a dressed-stone spillway, a bulging apron and projecting wings.

The largest stone check dam on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima: 13 metres of stepped granite raised in four layers from 1773, still working. Registered 2006.

A late Edo stone check dam in a side valley of the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima: 11 metres of stepped granite in an arched plan, extended twice. Registered 2006.

A 327-metre irrigation tunnel in Higashihiroshima, begun by one villager in 1927 and finished by the whole village around 1930, registered in 2000 and still in use.

Early-Showa Western-style clinic in Mihara, Hiroshima, with aligned windows and an arched window over the door; now a museum of the engraver Shimizu Nanzan.

Mid-Edo four-legged gate of Nanzenbo in Tomo, Fukuyama, topped by a bell chamber, with red-ochre timbers, cusped and round windows and sharply upturned eaves.

Late-Edo main hall of the Jodo Shinshu temple Nanzenbo in Tomo, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, with a tiled hip-and-gable roof, the typical Shin plan and fine period ornament.

Late-Taisho timber inn on the old Izumo road in Onomichi, Hiroshima, with every room facing the garden, sukiya rooms and three Western rooms for foreign seamen.

An 1868 hipped-roof shelter over a stone well and washing floor at the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama, with posts set on stone and walls left open above and below.

The 1826 main house of the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama: 29 metres of stepped gables, an earth-floored kitchen and a wing built for an altar from the Honganji.

A late Edo woodshed east of the Nobuoka main house in Fukuyama, with a timber rack on its south side, identified with the “east wood shed” in the family records.