Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An early Shōwa concrete bathhouse behind a Kōchi sake brewer's house, with cornice, pilasters and a curved canopy; registered as exemplary design in 2004.

An early Taisho gateway at Matsuo Sake Brewery in Kami, Kochi: a 3.6-meter yakuimon with a swelling roof, side gate, brick wing wall and faux-stone earthen walls.

An early Meiji two-storey earthen storehouse at Matsuo Sake Brewery in Kami, Kochi, built as a koji room, its 8-ken wall of boards and white plaster lining the road.

A 1912 one-storey guest wing at Matsuo Sake Brewery in Kami, Kochi, with a hip-and-gable roof, a formal shikidai entrance under double eaves, and boarded east wall.

An early Meiji single-storey brewing storehouse at Matsuo Sake Brewery in Kami, Kochi, its white walls ringed by two rows of Tosa rain tiles, listed for design.

An early Taisho two-storey storage storehouse at Matsuo Sake Brewery in Kami, Kochi, turning a boarded gable end to the road beside the north storehouse.

An early Taisho brick wall at Matsuo Sake Brewery in Kami, Kochi, 35 courses of header bond with a later elliptical arch, set against white storehouse plaster.

A mid-Meiji storehouse in Nahari, Kochi: three earth-walled stores joined under staggered ridges, one lean-to serving all three doors. The oldest part of the house.

The early Taisho main house built for Nomura Mokuma in Nahari, Kochi: an 18-metre two-storey block with weatherboarding and tall windows under a tiled irimoya roof.

An early Taisho ishiguro wall in Nahari, Kochi: 6 m of beach stones in a binding mix on a cut-stone base, locked by corner stones and capped with a small tiled roof.

An early Taisho ishiguro wall on a lane in Nahari, Kochi: 19 m of beach stone with a small tiled cap and, near its middle, a back door framed by a red brick arch.

An early Taisho ishiguro wall in Nahari, Kochi, running 19 m along the street with a turn. Its beach stones and tiled cap shape the townscape; seen from the road.

A Meiji shelter over a well on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi: four posts under a gabled tiled roof above a round stone-lined well ringed by river cobbles.

Meiji partition walls inside a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi: a board fence behind the main house and a plastered earthen wall around the annex garden.

A Meiji stone rampart around two sides of a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, doubling as a foundation, with square-faced and tortoiseshell-faced masonry.

A two-storey Meiji storehouse on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, for rice and tools, its plaster walls banded with four courses of rain-shedding tiles.

Three Meiji stone basins for drawing water and washing on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, linked to a water channel, one of cut stone and one of rounded stones.

The main house of a Meiji landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi: a gabled single-storey house with nine floored rooms, an earth-floored work area and a formal entrance.

A Meiji timber wall on the east side of a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, set on the stone perimeter and linking the gatehouse and outbuildings in one front.

A Meiji earthen wall at the corner of a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, its south run studded with river stones worked into the clay in the manner of Doi.

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