Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Probably the oldest building at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, this late Edo brewhouse opens off the shop floor and carries its roof on doubled tie beams.
The Uchino Family Residence Stone Steps in Hirado are a straight late-Edo flight of ten steps, 3.6 m wide, built of long sandstone slabs edged with natural stones.
Built in 1926 in Hirado's old samurai quarter, the Uchino Family Residence Main House sets a family wing and an L-shaped reception wing either side of its entrance.
Along a Hirado street, the Uchino Family Residence Gate and Wall pairs a 43 m plastered wall on late-Edo stonework with concrete gateposts remade around 1926.
Around 1926 the Uchino Family Residence Brick Wall was built of slag brick to enclose a small Hirado garden, a half-brick wall braced by piers and capped in brick.
Umegae Sake Brewery Former North Storehouse, a Meiji rice-polishing mill in Sasebo, was moved around 1960. At 19.7 meters it is the longest of the seven registered.
Umegae Sake Brewery Former Brewing Storehouse in Sasebo is a late Edo earthen shed of 264 square meters, extended twice and braced inside, where sake mash fermented.
Umegae Sake Brewery Former Muro in Sasebo hides a brick chamber inside a late Edo timber building; its roof merges with the brewing storehouse next door.
Umegae Sake Brewery Residence is a late Edo annex in Sasebo: three tatami rooms, a tokonoma, and a veranda and earthen eave opening to a garden. It is registered.
Umegae Sake Brewery Main House, built in 1860 in Sasebo, was the brewer's home and office. Its earthen-floored front is now a tasting room open without booking.
Umegae Sake Brewery Storage Warehouse is a Taisho-era storehouse in Sasebo on an English-bond brick base, with a sake press at the west end of its ground floor.
Umegae Sake Brewery Bottling Plant in Sasebo joins a one-story and a two-story earthen wing in an L; its late Edo ground floor is still used for shipping sake.
Umegayatsu Inari Shrine (1833) in Hirado pairs a small stone sanctuary with a stone torii, both dated, and serves as station four of the Hirado Island pilgrimage.
Umegayatsu Kairakuen Stone Wall (1839) in Hirado runs 97 meters below the villa, shifting from dry-laid stone to boulders and 5-meter rubble as it frames the garden.
Umegayatsu Kairakuen Stone Fence and Stone Steps (1839) led guests down from the hill to the house, the 11-meter steps curving at the foot beside a two-method fence.
Umegayatsu Kairakuen Main House, an 1839 villa of Hirado lord Matsura Hiromu, steps down its hillside to open onto the sea, with a tea room tucked on the hill side.
The Unzen Kanko Hotel of 1935 in Nagasaki, built for foreign visitors by Takenaka Komuten, rises from lava stone to log work to half-timbering in Alpine-lodge style.
An early Meiji well at the centre of the Kato Sake Brewery lot in Shimabara: a 1.2 m square tuff curb around a round shaft 10 m deep, said to supply brewing water.
An early Meiji earthen wall 37 m long enclosing the back of the Kato Sake Brewery lot in Shimabara, with a diagonal corner and a service door. Registered 2008.
A Taisho-era wall along the Kato Sake Brewery street front in Shimabara, 16 m long with a corner turn, earth on a kirikomi-hagi stone base up to 3.4 m high.
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