Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The 1892 timber shop of a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, with carved eave beams and lift-up shutters still in use. Registered in 2007; open in shop hours.

The largest registered building at a Futtsu soy sauce brewery: an 1872 storehouse whose eight wooden casks include six from the 1834 founding, behind white gables.

A 1925 reception wing at a Futtsu soy sauce brewery with prized timbers and fine joinery, the only one of nine buildings registered as hard to reproduce.

A 1907 moromi store at a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, where nine wooden casks hold fermenting mash with no artificial temperature control. Registered in 2007.

The oldest of nine registered buildings at a Futtsu soy sauce brewery: a late Edo earthen storehouse beside the shop, with double plastered doors facing the road.

An 1892 earthen storehouse beside the shop of a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, with doors on both floors of its gable and an early Western-style truss roof.

A simple late-Meiji bracket-arm gate, 2.1 metres wide, with board fences, closing off the main house garden on a Noda soy brewer's estate. Moved in 1971; not open.

A late-Edo storehouse said to have been moved from the Takanashi family in 1892, plastered black and white right up over the eaves. Registered 2018; not open.

An early-Meiji storehouse outside the walls of a Noda soy brewer's estate, beside the Kotohira Shrine path: tall but single-storey. Visible on the 10th monthly.

An early-Meiji storehouse for festival gear beside Kotohira Shrine, household shrine of a Noda soy brewing family, with an earthen floor. Visible on the 10th monthly

An 1896 open-sided hall for votive plaques at a Noda soy brewer's household shrine, walled only at the back, with a bench inside. Visible on the 10th of each month.

A 1920 kagura stage at a Noda soy brewer's household shrine, with a karahafu roof copied from the main hall and a carved tengu mask. Seen on the 10th of each month.

An 1872 water pavilion at a Noda soy brewer's household shrine: just 2.2 square metres, yet built with leaning posts, bracket sets and a carved gable. Open the 10th.

The 1872 sanctuary of a Noda soy brewer's household shrine: a karahafu roof and eaves crowded with Tatekawa-school carving. Open to view on the 10th monthly.

The heart of a Noda soy brewer's estate: a mid-Meiji single-storey house with black-plastered walls and three linked wings, registered in 2018. A private home.

A 1905 reception wing on a Noda soy brewer's estate, with three rooms, openwork transoms and a chandelier, enclosed by 4.4-metre walls. Registered 2018; not open.

Earthen walls of about 1905 guarding a Noda soy brewer's reception wing: 4.4 metres high, mortar-rendered with buttresses outside, plastered inside. Registered 2018.

A late-Meiji garden fence on a Noda soy brewer's estate, 33 metres long, boarded outside and plastered inside, with a ridge gate carved in openwork. Not open.

A c.1912 storehouse at the Mogi Shichiroemon soy-sauce brewers' estate in Noda, Chiba, set behind the main storehouse, with namako tile and white plaster walls.

One of the oldest buildings on a Noda soy brewer's estate: a late-Edo two-storey storehouse with gravel packed inside its walls against fire and theft. Not open.

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