Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late Edo single-storey samurai house in Doi Kakuchu, Aki, Kochi, with a shikidai entrance in its west gable, a tiny 3-mat hall and verandas on both sides.

A late Edo barn in Doi Kakuchu, Aki, Kochi: a storeroom and a smaller rice store under stepped gable roofs, doors sheltered by a lean-to. Registered in 2005.

A late Edo wall of broken roof tiles laid in red clay inside the Nomura house in Aki, Kochi, 1.7 m high and 7 m long, capped with tiles. Registered in 2005.

A tiny late Edo privy and bathhouse beside the gate of the Nomura house in Aki, Kochi, with a boarded and white-plastered wall to the lane. Registered in 2005.

A late Edo woodshed in the corner of the Nomura house plot in Aki, Kochi, linked to the barn by an open roofed passage and finished outside in boards and plaster.

A late Edo yakuimon gate in Doi Kakuchu, Aki, Kochi: 7-sun posts braced front and back, sliding doors, and left-handed tiles on its east slope. Registered in 2005.

A small 1887 plastered storehouse beside the Noradokei clock house in Aki, Kochi, with board skirting and a hooded gable window. Registered with the house in 1996.

An 1887 two-storey house in Aki, Kochi, with a handmade pseudo-Western clock tower on its north wing. Known as Noradokei; Kochi's first registered building (1996).

A mid-Meiji storehouse on the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, 11 metres long and split into rice and clothing rooms, with iron doors and Tosa plaster walls.

An early Meiji farmhouse at the heart of the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, with a four-room plan, a lofty reception room and a two-storey kitchen wing.

A mid-Meiji wall on the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi: 44 metres of tile-laid wall on a hexagonal stone base, with a river-stone ishiguro stretch on the east face.

A mid-Meiji two-storey storehouse at the back of the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, with a floating roof and Tosa plaster walls banded by rows of drip tiles.

An 1886 inner gate on the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, set in a partition wall dividing the approach from the work yard; a simplified version of the main gate.

An 1886 bracket gate with a sliding door and a 10-metre wall on a hexagonal stone base, screening the garden from the entrance path on the Hatanaka estate, Aki.

An 1886 guard hut in the south-west corner of the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, with a wave-pattern tiled ridge, hexagonal stone base and a lattice window.

An 1886 timber gate at the front of the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, with five rows of brackets and a door that slides into a side pocket. Registered in 2010.

An early Showa shed on the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, 9.5 metres long, holding a brick-lined bath, firewood store and miso room; the only Showa building there.

A long late Edo earthen storehouse of the Masudaya brewery in Nahari, Kochi, joining a raised-roof north store and a lower south store; registered in 2000.

Main house of Masudaya, a sake brewer and pawnshop founded in 1795 in Nahari, Kochi: a 2-story late Edo merchant house with water-shedding tiles, registered in 2000.

A late Meiji corner shop at a three-way junction in central Nahari, Kochi, with a low attic floor and a north wing; once a fabric shop, registered in 2003.

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