Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late-Edo two-storey annex in Konan, Kochi: a passage to the fields and a toilet below, a tatami room above, in the style of Tosa goshi homes. Registered in 2002.

Shogakuji Temple Stone Wall in Nahari, Kochi: a 1930 ishiguro windbreak against sea gales, of rounded stones 31 m long, 1.5 m high and 1 m thick, registered in 2003.

Shogakuji Temple Main Hall in Nahari, Kochi: a 1930 wooden hall, 4 by 4 bays, with a steep pyramidal roof and front porch, now the outer hall. Registered in 2003.

Wooden study hall of the late Taisho era at Jokoji in Yasuda, Kochi, a small, calm building with a six-mat sukiya-style room, an anteroom and board verandas.

Reinforced-concrete gate of the late Taisho era at Jokoji in Yasuda, Kochi, with dentilled square posts, an iron segmental arch with a lamp and a matching side gate.

Late Edo priests' quarters at Jofukuji in Otoyo, Kochi, moved here in 1885, with ten rooms, a private chapel and a main pillar recalling a large local farmhouse.

Main hall of 1779 at Jofukuji, an old Shingon temple in the mountains of Otoyo, Kochi, a closed, boarded hall around a coffered sanctuary; known for laughing Jizo.

A 1927 kitchen and servants' wing at a doctor's home in Geisei, Kochi, with three staff rooms, a stepped tiled roof, a vent cap over the stove and slatted windows.

A two-story 1927 earthen storehouse at the northwest corner of a doctor's home in Geisei, Kochi, its north wall banded with three tiers of rain-shedding tiles.

A 1927 weatherboarded clinic and home in Geisei, Kochi, with a clipped hipped roof, gable brackets and separate doors for family and patients. Registered in 1999.

A 1927 tiled gatehouse facing the road in Geisei, Kochi, leading to a doctor's family door, with a roofed wall north and a concrete wall to the clinic gate. 1999.

Steel road bridge of 1928 near where the Yusuhara meets the Shimanto River in Kochi: 3 Warren trusses, 138 metres long, with granite end posts in geometric ornament.

Takaiwa Bridge in Ino, Kochi: a 1928 reinforced-concrete girder bridge, 64 m long in 7 spans, whose pierced piers and matching parapets give it a single design.

A late Meiji storehouse on Sakawa's sake-brewery street in Kochi, registered in 2018. Its plastered walls carry three tiers of Tosa water-shedding tiles.

Built about 1892 in Tosa City, Kochi, this single-storey house became a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2019 and still works as a clinic.

This 1874 merchant house in Tano, Kochi, keeps the layered shopfront of a Tosa market town: a lattice screen, lean-to eaves and a lime-plastered half-storey.

Moved from Nahari to Tano in 1931, this late Edo wing shows two gables on its south face and holds seven rooms, including a formal alcove and writing bay.

Chohoji Temple Main Hall in Tano, Kochi: a hip-and-gable Shin Buddhist hall of 1822 with an entrance canopy and a broad outer sanctuary, registered in 2003.

Chohoji Temple Gate in Tano, Kochi: a gabled yakuimon gate of 1866, 2.8 metres wide, with a frog-leg strut under the ridge and tiled board fences on both sides.

Wooden shop-house of 1933 in Yasuda, Kochi, with a front shop on an earth floor, rooms behind and above, and drip tiles over its front pent roof, a local feature.

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