Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

In Aki's Doi Kakuchu quarter, Kochi, this two-storey earthen storehouse shows the Tosa manner: a boarded base, lime plaster, and two tiers of drip tiles. Registered 2005.

In Aki's Doi Kakuchu quarter, Kochi, this late-Meiji house was both doctor's home and clinic, its waiting and consulting rooms beside the family rooms. Registered 2005.

At the southwest corner of this Aki residence, Kochi, a nagayamon joins gate and building, with a passage at one end and four rooms alongside. Registered 2005.

Behind the main house of this Aki residence, Kochi, a small wing stands by the storehouse: an earthen floor, a raised floor, and eaves sheltering a well. Registered 2005.

Along the west edge of this Aki residence, Kochi, the wall joins a Tosa-plaster section and a neribei of river cobbles with old tiles at each end. Registered 2005.

A small two-storey clay storehouse of about 1887 in Yasuda, Kochi, with a floating roof and a gable wall on the lane crossed by two tiers of drip tiles.

A single-storey house of about 1887 in Yasuda, Kochi, whose hipped and hip-and-gable roofs overlap above Tosa-plaster walls and a dark-walled entrance porch.

A two-storey guest building of about 1953 at the back of a merchant's plot in Yasuda, Kochi, its tall plastered gable banded with rows of Tosa-style drip tiles.

An early Showa concrete gate in Yasuda, Kochi: 2 capped square posts set back from the road, with wing walls curving forward in arcs to meet the street wall.

A kimono shop of about 1887 on a corner in Yasuda, Kochi: sales floor below, storage mezzanine and workroom above, with a board-and-plaster gable on the side street.

An early Taisho two-storey storehouse in Nahari, Kochi, its Tosa plaster walls banded with three rows of tile ledges and set beside a brick wall. Registered in 2000.

A late Edo former inn on Nahari's old road in Kochi: six tatami rooms in two rows, plus a later two-storey wing whose gable reads as a double roof. Registered 2000.

An early Taisho cooking building behind a former inn in Nahari, Kochi, with an earthen floor, a well and tatami seating in the local kamaya form. Registered 2000.

An early Taisho barn beside the courtyard of a former inn in Nahari, Kochi: a hipped building with eaves on three sides and a tatami room. Registered 2000.

An early Taisho privy at a former inn in Nahari, Kochi: a small hipped building of 3.6 square metres with four doors onto the courtyard. Registered 2000.

An early Taisho brick wall enclosing the back of a former inn in Nahari, Kochi: English bond, 29 courses and a roof, set against a white storehouse. Registered 2000.

A 1922 single-storey house in Nahari, Kochi: gabled roof, four-room plan, and gable ends of board, Tosa plaster and three rows of tile ledges. Registered in 2000.

A late-Meiji ishiguro wall in Nahari, Kochi: 23 m of split stone on a tortoiseshell-masonry base, 1.6 m high and tile-capped, with a curved sleeve wall at the gate.

A late-Meiji ishiguro boundary wall in Nahari, Kochi: 25 m of split stone, 1.6 m high, its ends finished in plain stone, not cut corner blocks. Registered 2000.

A late Edo well in the back yard of the Nomura house in Aki, Kochi, 95 cm wide and about 10 m deep, lined with river stones and now capped. Registered in 2005.

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