Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An early Meiji earthen storehouse on a tall stone base in Gotsu, Shimane, with a red-tiled gable roof and part of the ground floor made into a room with an alcove.

A wooden tool shed of about 1882 north of a headman's house in Gotsu, Shimane, 6.5 m by 2.0 m, with an uneven red-tiled gable, an open east side and an earth floor.

An early Meiji storehouse linked by a corridor to the guest rooms of a Gotsu estate in Shimane, with rare bamboo roof sheathing laid down the slope; registered 2009.

A late Edo one-bay gate on Honmachi-dori in Gotsu, Shimane, 1.7 meters wide, with double rafters, a cloud-bracket beam and carved gable pendants; registered in 2009.

One of three Fujita storehouses in Gotsu, Shimane: a two-story store, 11 by 6.4 meters, its exposed roof on three tiers of beams over an ox beam; registered 2009.

An 1853 house on Honmachi-dori in Gotsu, Shimane, with a red Sekishu-tile gable roof crossed by a smoke vent and a six-room plan; it was registered in 2009.

A Gotsu estate storehouse joined at a right angle to a timber kitchen with two six-mat rooms above, finished in plaster and boards; registered in 2009.

The smallest of three Fujita storehouses in Gotsu, Shimane: a one-story store 6.2 by 5.0 meters turning its red-tiled gable to Honmachi-dori; registered in 2009.

A late Edo wall in Gotsu, Shimane, running 26 meters to divide three forecourts of the Fujita main house, its eaves and finish changing as it goes; registered 2009.

The largest Fujita storehouse in Gotsu, Shimane, with two tatami rooms and a south gable with a lattice and family crest facing a shrine approach; registered 2009.

A small 1921 storehouse at the Furuhashi Sake Brewery in Tsuwano, 23 m², its door, eave and tiled namako-kabe base turned toward the private garden. Renovated 2003.

A 1921 two-story earthen storehouse at the Furuhashi Sake Brewery in Tsuwano, its 24 m wall of stone, clapboard and plaster on the street, a yeast room upstairs.

The Furuhashi Sake Brewery's 1921 brewing storehouse in Tsuwano, 28 m long and 301 m², with two tiers of windows, iron doors and a big white-plastered east gable.

A 1921 single-story earthen storehouse at the Furuhashi Sake Brewery in Tsuwano, 19 by 10 m, with a raised roof vent and a heavy-beamed frame for a wide interior.

The 1921 shop and home of the Furuhashi Sake Brewery in Tsuwano: a 13 m frontage with a tall upper floor, lattice front and udatsu fire walls. The shop is open.

An 11-metre-wide merchant townhouse on Tsuwano's old highway, rebuilt after the great fire of 1853, registered in 2010. Its shopfront glass bears the family crest.

A two-storey earthen storehouse behind the Bundoya shop in Tsuwano, built after the 1853 fire. Clay walls, a cut-stone base, a family crest raised in gable plaster.

The largest of four registered storehouses at Bundoya in Tsuwano, built in late Meiji. Verdigris copper shutters play against red tile and white lime plaster.

Hoseikan Yusentei at Tamatsukuri Onsen in Matsue, Shimane, is a timber pavilion of 1931 built for imperial guests and registered as a Cultural Property in 2018.

Hozumi Residence Shita-no-kura, Onan, Shimane: a late Edo storehouse east of the main house, its posts leaning inward and a curved timber carrying the ridge beam.

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