Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Zaima Brewery Funekura and Hyakkokugura in Tsuwano joins a late Edo and a Taisho-era storehouse into one 423 m² white-walled building along the old San'in-do.

Registered in 2019, this late Meiji storehouse on Izumo's Momen Kaido has a footprint of just 31 square metres, a basement, and a rear braced out above the canal.

Built in 1933 facing the family's main house on Izumo's Momen Kaido, this tall two-storey wing is pierced by a kakedashi passage running through to the canal.

The plainest of Sasaya's four registered buildings in Tsuwano, and the one with the best door: kakeko-nuri plasterwork whose stepped edges leave fire no way in.

A tiny Edo storehouse built to be looked at: namako tile wall base, copper shutters, a crest on top. It makes the Honmachi streetscape with the shop it stocked.

Thick fireproof walls, one grilled window, and inside a six-mat tatami room with polished log rafters. A merchant family's tea-room sealed in a strongbox, Tsuwano.

Fourteen meters of frontage on Honmachi in Tsuwano. Plastered okabe walls bury the frame, udatsu parapets rise at each end, and the ground floor still sells kimono.

A 19-metre reinforced concrete chimney built in 1957 at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano. It vented the kiln that steamed sake rice and now marks the brewery from afar.

The Meiji rice storehouse at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano held rice for sake. Its white gable bears a plaster kanko-dori rooster, an old symbol of peaceful rule.

At 444 square metres, the former sake storehouse is the largest at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano. Its roofs, layered by repeated additions, embody sake-making itself.

The early-Showa rice mill at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano handled rice polishing, the first step of sake-making, and completes a quiet street front beside the storehouse.

The early-Meiji store and residence anchors Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano. Alone of the seven buildings, it was registered as a model of design for its fine joinery.

The storehouse at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano is the oldest of the seven, dating to the late Edo period. It sets red Sekishu tiles against white plaster.

The early-Meiji ridged gate at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano stands before the main house, its ridge in wave-pattern tiles and its paired beams cut from a single timber.

The Shimada Family Residence Sake Brewery in Masuda, Shimane, is a late Edo earthen storehouse of 298 square metres, extended in Meiji and registered in 2017.

The Shimada main house of 1888 in Masuda, Shimane, home of a family that once brewed sake, spreads a great red-tiled roof over eight rooms in three rows.

The assembly hall of the Shimane prefectural government in Matsue, built with the main office in 1959, sets its chamber on the second floor behind horizontal eaves.

The main building of the Shimane prefectural government in Matsue, a modernist office of 1959 on the castle's third bailey, crosses columns with white eaves.

The Shimane Prefectural Civic Center of 1968 before the gate of Matsue Castle sets a concert hall amid low wings, its colonnade matching the government building.

The Shimane Prefectural Library of 1968 in Matsue, by Kikutake Kiyonori, sets L-shaped reading rooms round a steel-roofed lobby and looks out to the castle park.

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