Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An early Showa thatched teahouse with a waiting bench at the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama, attributed to the head of the Hayami school and moved here around 1955.

A late Edo bracket-arm gate with flanking walls at the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama, said to have served a room for honoured guests, with a lattice transom.

An early Meiji two-storey gatehouse 31 metres long on the old Fukuyama–Fuchu highway, with a rice store and servants’ rooms, now the Nobuoka Flat Museum in Fukuyama.

Built in 1808, the west storehouse is the oldest of the eight Nobuoka buildings in Fukuyama: a two-storey store for household goods with varied namako tilework.

The 1826 rice store of the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama: a two-storey earthen storehouse in black plaster banded with namako tilework, with the east gate beside it.

A mid-Edo stone well at Hakubotan's Enpogura in Saijo, with a six-sided curb 97 cm a side and a well house built of stone up to its roof; registered in 2017.

An early Meiji brick chimney 25 meters tall at Hakubotan's Enpogura in Saijo, in English bond with a corbelled top and the name in katakana; registered in 2017.

An Edo-period earthen storehouse at Hakubotan's founding site in Saijo, with a 1675 ridge-tag copy, a tile-lattice dado and two drip-tile courses; registered 2017.

An L-shaped earthen brewery building at Hakubotan's Enpogura in Saijo, dated to early Meiji and extended in 1959, with a koji room and a lab; registered in 2017.

A late-Edo stone well at Hakubotan's Tenpogura in Saijo, a six-sided curb 66 cm a side carved with the name Tenpo-i; registered in 2017 as a model of design.

An early Meiji brick chimney 21 meters tall at Hakubotan's Tenpogura in Saijo, in English bond with the brand in kanji, a symbol of the sake town; registered 2017.

An early Showa brewing storehouse at Hakubotan's Tenpogura in Saijo, 24 by 13 meters under red tiles, its ridge posts carrying an octagonal beam; registered 2017.

A late-Meiji earthen rice mill at Hakubotan's Tenpogura in Saijo, with a trussed roof and a glazed lean-to for testing; registered in 2017 as a model of design.

A 1925 concrete dam in Onomichi, Hiroshima, registered in 2004, built for the city's first waterworks and combining gravity and arch construction in a curved plan.

The smallest of the Hida estate's registered buildings, this tiny Kannon hall stands over the family's own grave, a rare record of local island devotion.

Facing the main house across the courtyard, the Hida storehouse rises as one open two-story volume, built from the outset to hold the mikan crop that defined Ōcho.

This Taishō gate-storehouse fronts the eastern lane of the Hida estate, joining a central gateway to storage rooms, its road-side base in sasarako weatherboarding.

The Hida family's main house on Ōsakishimojima in Kure is the oldest of five registered buildings, a late-Edo tsushi-nikai farmhouse finished with a townhouse's care.

The newest of the Hida estate's five registered buildings, this 1924 detached wing is a refined sukiya-style retreat, its porch posts on carved lion-dog stone plinths.

The ceremonial gate of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima. A late-Edo copper-roofed gate 1.7 metres wide, it divided the guest-room garden from the forecourt.

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