Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late Meiji brick storehouse behind the Hamada store in Nahari, Kochi: a timber frame clad in stretcher-bond brick with a curved stair inside; registered in 2003.

Wall of about 1934 at a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi: beach stones laid in concrete, 24 m long and 1.9 m high, with cement-brick corners and coping.

Kitchen and bath wing of 1934 attached to the main house of a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi, with a maid's room, earth floor and open-sided well area.

Small 1934 building for handling rice in a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi, linked to the main house by a corridor, with a hip-and-gable roof; registered 2004.

1934 single-storey house at the heart of a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi, with a hip-and-gable roof, latticed gables and a corner parlor; registered 2004.

Late Meiji 2-storey storehouse in a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi, with namako tile walls, white Tosa plaster and six tiers of weather tiles on each gable.

A short stretch of the boundary wall of the Higashiyama Family Residence in Nahari, Kochi, built of beach cobbles in about 1905 and finished with a 4-course corner.

The storehouse of the Higashiyama Family Residence in Nahari, Kochi, built in about 1905, shows Tosa-plastered walls and tile ledges on a corner of the old town.

The main house of the Higashiyama Family Residence in Nahari, Kochi, built in about 1905, faces the street with a latticed front and a low tsushi upper floor.

The bath and toilet annex of the Higashiyama Family Residence in Nahari, Kochi, built in about 1905, keeps a goemon-buro and 30 cm decorative tiles inside and out.

A 39-square-metre Taisho storehouse in Kochi answering typhoon country with drip tiles, a ventilated set roof, and two-tone plaster. Registered in 2003 for design.

Built in 1890 and relocated around 1917, this 201-square-metre Kochi house wears a hipped tile roof stepped down at the eaves. Registered in 2003, now a guesthouse.

An 18-metre reinforced concrete garden wall of the early Showa era, pierced with curved diamonds and checkerboard voids. Registered in 2003 as not easy to reproduce.

Just 1.5 metres wide, this early Showa timber gate divides entrance from garden at Hyakunen-ya in Kochi. Registered in 2003 for the order it brings to the approach.

The Fukuda Family Residence Reception Wing in Konan, Kochi, is a flat-roofed concrete office of about 1924, among the first in the prefecture, with rough walls.

The Fukuda Family Residence Guest Hall and Annex in Konan, Kochi, is a 1923 earthen-walled guest hall whose rain-shedding wall tiles make two storeys look like four.

The Fukuda Family Residence Storehouse and Guardhouse in Konan, Kochi, is a 1919 earthen-walled store, the oldest on site, with waves in plaster relief.

The Fukuda Family Residence Main House in Konan, Kochi, is a 1924 timber home of eight rooms, registered for its modern Japanese design and plaster relief gables.

The Fukuda Family Residence Outer Wall in Konan, Kochi, is a 59-meter concrete wall of about 1924, capped with tiles and scored with Mondrian-like joint lines.

The Fukuda Family Residence Garden Gate and Partition Wall in Konan, Kochi, pairs a curved-roof timber gate with a low 1920s concrete wall framing the entrance.

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