Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The lecture hall of the former army 44th Infantry Regiment in Kochi, built in the late Meiji period to train officers, is a white timber hall with king-post trusses.

The magazine of the former army 44th Infantry Regiment in Kochi, built in the late Meiji period, is a brick building with thick walls and iron-clad doors.

A 1935 reinforced concrete bridge over the Niyodo River in Kochi, railless and built to be overtopped by floods, its 13-metre arch springing from bedrock.

Within the Kubo grounds in Yasuda, this Taisho river-stone wall staggers its vertical joints, keeps the horizontal courses level, and sets larger stones at its ends.

In the old Tosa town of Yasuda, this small Taisho-era storehouse of the Kubo merchant house wears lime-plaster walls and regional drip tiles above an iron-clad base.

The oldest of the Kubo property's registered parts, this late-Edo ishiguro wall in Yasuda uses Tosa river stones and a tiled cap, shaping the character of its lane.

Facing a back lane in Yasuda, this Taisho detached room of the Kubo house holds a six-mat guest chamber with an alcove, its iron-clad walls opening upstairs only.

On the south side of the Kubo shop-house in Yasuda, this modest 1.9-metre Taisho service gate, with a single mairado door, links the household to its garden and field.

A Taisho-era draper's shop and dwelling on a corner in Yasuda, Kochi, registered in 2007. Its vertically boarded gable end anchors the old coastal street.

At the southeast corner of a Tano plot in Kochi, a registered Taisho building puts a gate and a privy under one gabled roof, an arrangement rare in the district.

West of the main house in Tano, Kochi, this small two-storey storehouse dates from late Edo and is said to have been moved from the Oka Goten, a Tosa lord's lodging.

An early Taisho main house in Tano, Kochi, with a four-room grid plan, a formal shikidai step in the goshi tradition, and two courses of Tosa rain-shedding tiles.

The main hall of Kuwaze Shrine in Ino, Kochi, an early Meiji shrine on a ledge beside a waterfall, sits inside a cover hall, carved with painted dragons.

Keikiso in Kami, Kochi, is the thatched cottage of 1934 where the poet Yoshii Isamu lived in seclusion, a simple retreat with tasteful sukiya details.

The Goto Family Residence Wooden Fence, an 1896 board fence in Aki, runs 5.0 metres from the main house to the barn, with tile coping and a sliding wicket door.

The Goto Family Residence Office, a 1949 building of 17 square metres in Aki, is registered for its gently curved hip-and-gable roof and big south and west windows.

The Goto Family Residence Main House, built in 1896 on the Aki Castle site, is a registered hipped-roof house whose tiles change direction slope by slope.

The Goto Family Residence Barn, a 1949 two-storey barn in Aki, is registered for its board and Tosa plaster walls and the fence that ties it to the main house.

The Goto Family Residence Detached Wing, an 1896 two-room tatami retreat west of the main house in Aki, is registered for a hipped roof tiled in two directions.

The Goto Family Residence Annex, a 1954 cottage on the Aki Castle site, is registered for its two tatami rooms, kitchen and toilet wings and black north wall.

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