Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1915, the Main House of Kunibanzai Shuzo faces the old coastal highway by the Omono River, its counting room and parlour along a through earthen passage.

Built in 1908 and eighteen ken long, this is the oldest and longest fermentation storehouse at Kunibanzai Shuzo, its entrance a showcase of layered lime plasterwork.

The smallest building at Kunibanzai Shuzo, this early-Showa koji room grows the mould that starts each batch of sake, its plaster walls capped by English-bond brick.

This 1908 storehouse behind the Main House, the only two-storey vault at Kunibanzai Shuzo, began as a document store and now cultivates the brewery's yeast starter.

Discover the Konishi Family Residence Zashiki-gura, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Yokote, Akita. This 1922 earthen storehouse showcases exceptional Taisho-era craftsmanship with black lacquer doors and a powerful timber interior.

An early Showa workshop in Yurihonjo, Akita, where a timber truss roof clears a tall column-free room for the cauldron and tub that steam the brewing rice.

The brewery's rice store of about 1902 in Yurihonjo, Akita, singled out for the carved lintel over its earthen doors and now converted into a gallery.

An earthen storehouse in Yurihonjo, Akita, converted into the brewery's office in the early Showa era and roofed, uniquely on this site, in sheet iron.

Built around 1902 in Ishiwaki, Yurihonjo, this wooden merchant house sets Western detailing on its upper storey above a deep street eave. Registered in 1998.

A 20-square-metre earthen storehouse of about 1902 in Yurihonjo, Akita, where vegetables were cured in sake lees left over from pressing at the brewery.

Built around 1902 in Yurihonjo, Akita, this storehouse stands beyond the garden on the working side of the property and still holds the brewery's sake tanks.

The largest of the eleven registered buildings in Yurihonjo, Akita, this early Showa storehouse lies along the slope, its ridge north to south, holding sake tanks.

An early Showa storehouse in Yurihonjo, Akita, sheltered with the middle storehouse inside one plain boarded shed that keeps driven snow off the earthen walls.

At 17 square metres this 1902 storehouse in Yurihonjo, Akita, is the smallest of the eleven, sheltered by a shed finished to imitate an earthen storehouse.

A two-storey earthen storehouse of about 1902 in Yurihonjo, Akita, built for ledgers and valuables, its gable boarded and hooded against wind-driven snow.

A small copper-roofed gate of about 1902 in Yurihonjo, Akita, with wicket doors in the samurai manner. It led guests to the reception rooms, not the shop.

A tall 1949 end-gabled house in Masuda, Yokote, with a traditional white plaster gable framed in beams and posts, and a tall earthen passage lit by high windows.

A 1914 hipped-roof house in Maego, Yurihonjo, built around a 15-mat central room, with a dental surgery and waiting room in one corner and a telephone room.

A brick urinal of about 1914 in Maego, Yurihonjo, 2.8 square meters: English-bond walls, a quarter-circle door arch, a segmental arched window and sawtooth trim.

A 2-storey earthen storehouse of 1900 in Maego, Yurihonjo, dated by its ridge-beam inscription: an archive below, a painted reception room above, later brick facing.

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