Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Kayashima Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse in Kunisaki, Oita, is the site's largest building, a two-storey hall of 1914 with a truss roof under a great hipped roof.
Kayashima Sake Brewery Nakagura in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 1915 pressing house 4 by 26 ken, roofed with king post trusses and clad in boards like the brewing hall.
Kayashima Sake Brewery Wooden Wall in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 65-meter roofed wall of 1935 on the south edge: brick base, timber bays every ken, sheet-iron roof.
Kayashima Sake Brewery Gate Storehouse in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 1916 timber gateway and storeroom attached to the rice storehouse, with exposed posts and wainscot.
Kayashima Sake Brewery Cold Storehouse in Kunisaki, Oita, is an 1894 earthen brewhouse used for cold storage since 1929, insulated with rice husks inside its walls.
The private wing of the Inaba lords' Usuki villa, c. 1902: four rooms in a ta-no-ji plan, an alcoved main room and paper screens set high for light. Registered 2008.
Front gate of the Inaba lords' Usuki villa, c. 1902: a 2.7 m bracket-arm gate with a wicket on each side, brace posts, boat-shaped brackets and a lattice band.
A 45 m wall and 2.3 m service gate of c. 1902 at the Inaba lords' Usuki villa: local tuff base, dark board skirting and white plaster on the street. Registered 2008.
Built in 1902 for the former Inaba lords of Usuki: a gable-fronted hall with a shikidai porch, an alcoved upper room and an 18.5-mat room. Registered in 2008.
The kitchen of the Inaba lords' Usuki villa, c. 1902: an 8 m square, two-storey block with an earthen floor, open eaves and a void carrying stove smoke to the roof.
A two-storey storehouse of c. 1902 at the Inaba lords' Usuki villa: cut-stone base, white plaster, two rooms with own doors and a deep east eave. Registered 2008.
The mid-Meiji detached house of the Arinaga headman's estate in Kunisaki, Oita, registered in 2000, on a tortoiseshell stone base and now a training hall.
Built in 1879 in Taketa's castle town, this Sato townhouse combined shop and home, with an earthen shop floor, a through passage and a white upper front. Visiting.
The Sato former miso storehouse, built 1879 in Taketa, turns a white gable to the street between two townhouses, with a lean-to passage in front. What to look for.
The Sato Main House is an 1879 townhouse in Taketa's old castle town, with bracketed degeta eaves and white plaster above. How sources differ and what you can see.
Behind the Sato townhouses in Taketa stands a small two-storey earthen storehouse of about 1879, plastered white with few windows, keeping a merchant compound whole.
A late-Meiji sukiya-style annex of about 1909 facing the inlet of Oga harbour in Hiji, Oita, with a hipped roof, gabled porch and polished-log rafters. How to visit.
Shogyoji Temple Main Gate in Nakatsu is a late Edo four-legged gate 4.3 m wide, with deep carved tie-beams and a gable strut shaped like a dragon. Registered 2013.
Shogyoji Temple Bell Tower in Nakatsu is a small open belfry of the late Edo period, with Zen-style stone bases and closely packed tail-rafter brackets. Listed 2013.
Shogyoji Temple Flanking Walls in Nakatsu run 20 m from the gate. These late Edo walls have a washed-mortar base, 5 ruled lines and a wicket door. Registered 2013.
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