Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1859 at Usa in Oita, this 30-metre hall is held to be the largest timber building in Kyushu and the only one of 11 registered structures listed for design.

The sutra repository of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, a plastered hall of the early 18th century, holds an octagonal revolving sutra case at its centre.

The main gate of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, a mid-Edo four-legged gate 3.5 metres wide, keeps an older style with a large gable strut and carved waves.

The bell tower of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, dated to 1761 by an ink inscription, has splayed posts, a raised coffered ceiling and a broad peony carving.

The middle gate of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, a late Edo four-legged gate 4.5 metres wide, bears carved baku, lions, qilin and chrysanthemum struts.

The main hall of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, built in about 1902 to designs by Sasaki Iwajiro, is a 764-square-metre Shin Buddhist hall with fine eaves.

A stone-walled canal running along a plateau ridge in Taketa, Oita. Rebuilt from a wooden flume in the 1920s, registered in 1996, it still waters 698 hectares.

On the Mikuma River bank at Hita, 25 metres of mortared cobble rise about three metres, topped by a metre-high brick fence with iron gates above the river steps.

A late Edo well behind a Hita merchant house: an andesite curb cut with half-lap joints, ringed by a stone washing floor and roofed by a small gabled shelter.

Built in 1816 in Hita's merchant quarter, this 22-metre townhouse carries plaster walls, tiled namako banding and a low eave of heavy pantiles above the street.

A small blue clapboard barbershop of the late Taisho era in Shimabara, Nagasaki, its entrance arch borrowed from Zen temple windows. Registered in 2003, now a cafe.

Two tiers of diagonally set basalt run 218 metres along this Hirado hillside, coursed and hexagonal stonework flanking two stairways of Aō stone. Registered 2008.

A 1939 timber house in a Tabira valley, Hirado, layering three roof forms over 317 square metres, its main reception room in the southeast corner. Registered 2008.

Ikegami Family Residence in Nagasaki's Ōura district is a clapboard Western-style house of the late Meiji 20s, registered in 1998. Lived in; viewed from the street.

The Inohara Hardware Store Main Building in Shimabara joins an 1861 townhouse to a late-Meiji wing. Registered in 2003, it trades on, spring water at the door.

Behind the Edo brewhouses at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, this early Showa rice-washing shed has a sheet-iron roof, a king post truss and a ridge vent.

The largest building at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, this early Showa brewhouse has two full storeys and, unlike its gabled neighbours, a hipped roof.

Set between two brewhouses at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, this Taisho-era building began as a brown-rice store, with the master brewer's room above.

This late Edo shop and house fronts the old road at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, with a hip-and-gable front, a gabled rear wing and beams over the doma.

Beside the Honkura at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, this late Edo brewhouse survived the 1879 fire and its roof carries on over the lane between them.

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