Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A tiny 1912 shrine to Fudo on a cut-stone base at the Asahiya Hara Pharmacy estate in Shiki, of unpainted timber with a carved beam; the smallest of the seven.

A two-story 1912 shop-house on Shiki's old street: an open shopfront below, barred windows and projecting eave beams above, built of zelkova and black pine.

A two-story 1912 storehouse behind the Asahiya Hara Pharmacy shop in Shiki, its white plaster walls set on a brick base, a modern touch in a traditional form.

A two-story 1934 house at the back of the Asahiya Hara Pharmacy estate in Shiki, with tall rooms, many glass windows and sukiya-style eaves of paired rafters.

A 1912 storage shed behind the Asahiya Hara Pharmacy shop in Shiki, with exposed posts and a tall interior, once 2 stories; registered in 2003 as key to the estate.

A 1912 one-bay gate and board fence beside the Asahiya Hara Pharmacy shop in Shiki, under copper roofs, with sliding doors hidden in the fence; registered in 2003.

A single-story 1932 Western-style room beside the Asahiya Hara Pharmacy shop in Shiki, with a pantile hipped roof, west porch and walls edged in washed stone.

The 1931 rear gate and wall of the Otani estate in Fukaya, Saitama: a koraimon-style gate and 63 metres of battened wall enclosing the north and east sides.

An early Taisho retreat 40 metres northwest of the Otani estate in Fukaya, Saitama, with offset hipped roofs, tall proportions and a gabled porch. Registered 2004.

A 1931 reinforced-concrete rice store at the Otani estate in Fukaya, Saitama, with mortar walls scored to look like stone and a timber king-post truss roof.

A 1931 sukiya-style house in Fukaya, Saitama, built as relief work for local craftsmen. Stained glass of pine and cranes lights its entrance alcove. Registered 2004.

A tiny 1931 bathhouse at the Otani estate in Fukaya, Saitama, walled on three sides and open to the garden on the fourth, in a light sukiya manner. Registered 2004.

The 1931 gate and wall facing the old Nakasendo at the Otani estate in Fukaya, Saitama, with a swelling gabled roof, openwork carving and adze-textured boards.

A 1931 miniature shrine in a courtyard of the Otani estate in Fukaya, Saitama. Only 0.37 square metres, yet built with a full bracket set and carved strut.

The oldest of nine registered buildings at the Otani estate in Fukaya, Saitama: a late Meiji storehouse with a 12-mat upper room, linked to the 1931 Main House.

A 1931 Jugendstil villa joined to a sukiya house in Fukaya, Saitama, with Spanish tiles, washed-stone walls and stained-glass windows seen from the old Nakasendo.

A three-storey clay-walled shop of 1915 in Ogose, Saitama, from the town's silk-trading years, once black-plastered, with copper tortoiseshell work. Registered 2008.

The Onda Family Residence Storehouse, Yashio, Saitama, was built in 1897 by a dyeing family. A boat hangs under the eaves, used to rinse cloth and to escape floods.

A middle Meiji storehouse by the Shingashi River in Fujimino, Saitama, all that remains of the Yoshinoya shipping agency. Registered in 1998; exterior only.

A 1933 wooden ryotei in Ogawa, Saitama, registered in 2004. Its second floor holds a seventy-mat hall with a tokonoma facing a stage, behind a layered tiled roof.