Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Myokakuji's 1892 bell hall in Kisa, Miyoshi, is one bay square on a stone base, with inward-leaning round columns, frog-leg blocks and a bell under a board ceiling.

Built in 1928 for Jikoin in Ryogoku, Tokyo, and moved to Kisa in 2020, this seven-bay hall pairs a U-shaped earthen outer hall with a trussed roof. Registered 2024.

Myogenji Main Hall in Fukutomi, Higashihiroshima, built in 1938 by carpenter Nishitani Shoichi, has diagonal brackets, 4-bay beams and ranma by an Omi carver.

The Murakami Family Residence Stone Wall wraps a Fukuyama hilltop estate, rising 4.2 metres at one corner, with castle-style corners and traces of a Meiji-era fire.

The Murakami Family Residence Clothing Storehouse is a late Edo dozo in Fukuyama, clad in vertical boards with plastered eaves and even plastered interior walls.

The Murakami Family Residence Well House is a small late Edo shelter in Fukuyama over a well with a granite curb and stone-paved washing area, a rare survival.

The Murakami Family Residence Udegimon Gate is a late Meiji garden gate in Fukuyama, with bracket arms carrying its eaves, a grid transom and central sliding doors.

The Murakami Family Residence Rice Storehouse is a small late Edo dozo in Fukuyama whose pantiled lean-to wraps two sides and once served as a pickling shed.

The Murakami Family Residence Main House in Fukuyama is a late Meiji guest hall whose upper reception rooms, with a tokonoma and carved transoms, face the bay.

The Murakami Family Residence Nagayamon Gate is a 16-metre late Edo gatehouse in Fukuyama, with storage and living rooms either side of a 3.7-metre gateway.

The Murakami Family Residence Barn in Fukuyama links two storehouses and keeps an alcove and cupboards from its days as a terakoya, a small private school.

Early Showa timber lab behind Yamamoto Rock Machine's old office in Tojo, Hiroshima: arched windows, scraped-mortar walls, registered in 2024 as a model of design.

Early Showa office and home of Yamamoto Rock Machine on Shinmachi-suji in Tojo, Hiroshima: scraped-mortar front, bay and round windows, registered in 2024.

A 38-meter timber workshop of about 1937 at Yamamoto Rock Machine in Tojo, Hiroshima: queen post truss, ridge monitor, arched gable windows. Registered in 2016.

A 1937 three-story timber family dormitory of Yamamoto Rock Machine in Tojo, Hiroshima, with clipped-gable roof and dormers, now in volunteer care. Registered 2016.

A timber canteen and recreation hall of about 1937 at Yamamoto Rock Machine's dormitories in Tojo, Hiroshima, with pressed-steel ceiling panels. Registered in 2016.

A 59-meter timber dormitory of about 1941 for single workers at Yamamoto Rock Machine in Tojo, Hiroshima, with ten-mat rooms and a basement. Registered in 2016.

A timber schoolhouse of about 1938 where Yamamoto Rock Machine in Tojo, Hiroshima trained apprentice machinists above a storeroom until around 1980. Registered 2016.

Built in 1934 in Tojo, Hiroshima, this 78-meter timber shop raises its central bay and adds a monitor roof for daylight. It still builds rock drills today.

Completed in 1937 at right angles to the older shop, this 44-meter timber workshop carries king post trusses, ranked windows, and a washed-aggregate dado.