Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A small Meiji outbuilding on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, with a pickling room and a store, its clapboard and plaster wall forming part of the perimeter.

A Meiji gatehouse at the corner of a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, with barred musha-mado windows, clapboard and Tosa lime-plaster walls, and two tatami rooms.

A two-storey Meiji storage barn on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, its walls boarded below and plastered in Tosa lime above, with boarded gables against rain.

A Meiji reception wing on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi: a ten-mat room with an alcove, a veranda onto a walled garden, and barred windows facing the road.

A Meiji toilet and bathhouse on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi: a three-stall toilet beside a bathhouse with a tiled tub and its own small stoking room.

Restaurant Tokugetsuro Kiku Room, built in 1957 at the innermost point of the site, omits the nageshi rail and turns its writing bay in an L by the alcove.

Restaurant Tokugetsuro Guest Room began as a forestry pavilion at the 1937 Nangoku Exposition, moved here in 1950. Its timber list still hangs by the door.

Built in 1957 facing a late Edo garden, Restaurant Tokugetsuro Koyo Room has a writing bay with a round window and a coffered ceiling in a geometric figure.

Restaurant Tokugetsuro Main Gate, built in 1959 on the northern street, is a wide low gate 5.9 metres across, with sliding doors and posts of polished log.

Rebuilt in 1950 after the Kochi air raids, Restaurant Tokugetsuro Main Building holds an 80-mat hall ceiled with cedar boards 10 metres long. Registered in 2004.

Restaurant Tokugetsuro Connecting Corridor links the main building to the garden rooms. Polished logs frame its boat-bottom ceiling, and the waiting area is woven.

A 7.3-metre brick chimney at Amabuki Shuzo in Saga, laid in English bond on a square base. It once drew smoke from the kitchen that fed the seasonal brewery crew.

An eleven-metre brick chimney of the Taisho era at Amabuki Shuzo, Saga. Its hexagonal base and twin decorative bands mark the brewery from across the paddy fields.

A late Meiji fermentation warehouse at Amabuki Shuzo in Saga, 39 by 17 metres. Thick earthen walls hold the cold; round log posts and inclined beams carry the roof.

The mid-Meiji main house at Amabuki Shuzo in Saga, where an earthen passage splits office from home. An older storehouse was absorbed into its east half.

A Taisho-era reinforced concrete storehouse cut into a hillside at Amabuki Shuzo, Saga. Still working as a cold store, it borrows its chill from the earth.

Iimori Sake Brewery No. 1 and No. 2 Storehouses in Kashima, Saga: a board-clad earthen store on a Japanese roof frame and a truss-roofed shed, registered in 2006.

Iimori Sake Brewery Chimney in Kashima, Saga, is a 9-meter brick stack of about 1921 with iron frames, still bearing an earlier label, Tama no Ka, on its north face.

Iimori Sake Brewery Koji Room in Kashima, Saga, is a late Taisho single-storey brick room for making koji, on a trapezoid plan with a truss-framed gabled tile roof.

Iimori Sake Brewery No. 3 Storehouse in Kashima, Saga, is a late Taisho earthen storehouse used to press and bottle sake, with a long west roof and a Showa lean-to.

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