Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Sasayama Shrine Main Hall, built in 1879 in Kurume, folds its three-bay porch under one irimoya roof. See its deep degumi eaves, kaerumata and the best viewpoint.
The Jokyu Soy Sauce Rear Zashiki in Fukuoka is an early Showa parlor building, the president's home until 1964, with an inventive alcove and trapezoidal cupboards.
The Jokyu Soy Sauce Chimney in Fukuoka is a brick stack built 19 meters tall in 1915 and cut to 9.5 meters by a 2005 quake. See its octagonal base and brickwork.
The Jokyu Soy Sauce Front Zashiki in Fukuoka is an early Meiji reception building said to have lodged troops in 1877. See its alcove room and railed window.
The Jokyu Soy Sauce Rice Storehouse in Fukuoka is a two-storey store of 1871 beside the brewing store, now used for brewing tools. See its copper-roofed doorway.
The Jokyu Soy Sauce Brewing Storehouse in Fukuoka dates from 1862 and still brews soy sauce in wooden casks. See its raised working floor and tall walls.
The Jokyu Soy Sauce Wakamiya Shrine in Fukuoka is a tiny shrine of 1792, older than the brewery. See its rare gable-entry form, carved beam ends and frog-leg strut.
The Jofukuji Temple Main Gate in Okawa is a plain yakuimon of about 1872, said to reuse Yanagawa Castle gate timber. Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2023.
The Jofukuji Temple Bell Tower in Fukuoka City is a late Edo open bell tower moved from Osaka to Hakata, then to Hibaru in 1975. Registered Property in 2011.
The Jofukuji Temple Detached Room in Okawa is a guest wing of about 1916 whose alcove juts into the corridor to make a seven-mat room. Registered Property in 2023.
The Jofukuji Temple Main Hall in Okawa, rebuilt in 1834, keeps its original porch carving and Shin Buddhist plan. Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2023.
A stone wall of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, about 48 m long, its Edo-kiri dressed blocks laid 5 courses high by the gate, 3 along the road.
A 2-story retirement house of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with a Buddhist altar room, a bell-shaped window and a sukiya-style study upstairs.
A 2-story storehouse of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, which held serving ware and is joined to the retirement house by an arched corridor.
A gate of about 1872 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, standing where the Hita Kaido is said to have run until early Meiji, as a record of that change.
The main gate of about 1891 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: a yakuimon whose posts are granite at the front and timber at the back, flanked by a stone wall.
A side gate of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: a bracket-arm gate whose outer roof slope and side walls are laid with a local left-hand pantile.
A small storehouse of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, its plastered walls tiled only at the lower corners, with a copper-shuttered window.
A private archery hall of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with a shooting floor, an anteroom with a Shinto altar, and a target house facing it.
A storehouse of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with a clay-walled timber store and a wooden firewood store under stepped gabled roofs.
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