Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Goto Family Residence Storage Shed, an 8.3 square metre hut of 1896 in Aki, is registered for its open south front and a north wall built to look like a fence.

The Koyagauchi Bridge in Shimanto, Kochi, is a concrete low-water bridge of 1953, set on bedrock with pointed cutwaters so that floods can pass right over it.

Concrete submersible bridge of 1954 on the Shimanto River, Kochi, with no railings and a 12-metre central span left after floods swept away its piers.

The storehouse of the Sawamura Family Residence in Tosa, Kochi, built in 1935, wears white Tosa lime plaster banded with 4 tiers of rain-shedding tile ledges.

The main house of the Sawamura Family Residence in Tosa, Kochi, built in 1935, crosses a French-tiled Western wing into a traditional hip-and-gable house.

The outdoor toilet of the Sawamura Family Residence in Tosa, Kochi, built in 1935, is a small plastered building with a fan-shaped window in its west wall.

The gate of the Sawamura Family Residence in Tosa, Kochi, built in 1935, has arched concrete gateposts and iron doors styled to match the Western wing of the house.

A 1911 inner wall in Konan, Kochi: 14 metres of roofed earthen wall and a 6.4-metre stone arm that split garden from work yard and hold back a garden hill.

A 1911 stone pond in Konan, Kochi, about 1.5 metres square, fed by water led along a gatehouse and under a wall: a record of how the district used its water.

A 1911 clay storehouse in Konan, Kochi, with a detached roof, a boarded base under Tosa plaster, and rows of projecting wall tiles that shed the region's heavy rain.

An 1850s rural house in Konan, Kochi, with a deep six-room plan and stepped eaves on three sides, later crossed by a Meiji two-storey wing in Tosa dragonfly style.

A 1911 wall in Konan, Kochi, running about 6.5 metres from a gatehouse round the estate's corner, its stone base laid in tortoise-shell pattern under Tosa plaster.

A tall 1911 gatehouse fronting a homestead in Konan, Kochi, with a hip-and-gable roof, doors set to one side, and a key-fret pattern in Tosa plaster on its wall.

A 1911 outbuilding in Konan, Kochi, with a two-storey silkworm room at its north end, a barn to the south, and a framed west wall lining a channel by the storehouse.

A 1935 timber yakuimon gate in Konan, Kochi, reached by dog-leg steps from the road and turning a gently curved gable to the street as part of the estate's front.

A 1935 retaining wall of great natural boulders in Konan, Kochi, 25 metres long and capped in concrete, whose east end forms a balustrade with a spiral design.

A late-Edo earthen storehouse in Konan, Kochi, with two ground-floor rooms entered from different sides, clapboard below and Tosa lime plaster and tile ledges above.

A two-storey 1935 house in Konan, Kochi, built as three wings joined at right angles in the local tombo-zukuri manner. Registered in 2002; the interior is not open.

A late-Edo barn in Konan, Kochi, 8 ken long, with a lean-to toward the field and a gatehouse-like west face with sayagata patterns and deep projecting eaves.

A tiny 1935 reinforced concrete bathhouse in Konan, Kochi, 2.2 by 4 metres, its decorated parapet echoing the estate's stone wall. An early concrete house in Kochi.

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