Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The 1890 main house of the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: a tall earth-floored hall, two rows of rooms, a jutting reception room and a plastered southwest face.
A 2-story building of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, used as servants' quarters until about 1945, with lattices fitted to its upstairs windows.
An earthen wall of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, 106 meters long, with plaster walls, bark or board at the base and local left-hand pantiles.
A late Edo storehouse on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, repaired in 1891: 23.2 meters long, with a namako tile base, the oldest of 18 registered buildings.
A barn of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: 10.1 meters long but 1.9 meters deep, its south face built as one with the earthen wall.
A 1902 guest pavilion of the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, reached by a corridor over an arched bridge, with fan rafters and a view over the village.
An 1870 storehouse on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with namako tile walls and quince-shaped windows with copper shutters, framing the front of the house.
A target house of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, facing the archery hall, with an open front under a curved tie beam and cedar bark walls.
A firewood shed of about 1933 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, open at the front and roofed with local left-hand pantiles; the smallest of the 18.
The Tadokoro Shoten Warehouse in Yahata, Kitakyushu, an early Showa store for tea, is an L-shaped building of local slag brick under an irregular hipped roof.
A 1955 tea pavilion at a Fukuoka girls' school: ten- and fifteen-mat shoin rooms ringed by a veranda, a small tea room and a tiled gable roof. Registered in 2011.
A 1940 tea room at a Fukuoka girls' school: a four-and-a-half-mat room with a daime alcove, a preparation room with a hearth, and a T-shaped roof. Registered 2011.
A tiny 1940 waiting shelter beside the Senshinan tea room in Fukuoka: a tapering 1.4 m² plan, a cedar-bark beckoning roof and a bench of cedar and bamboo that bends.
The Chuai Tunnel of 1889, 432 metres long between Kawara and Miyako in Fukuoka, was dug to carry Chikuho coal and has brick portals framed in cut granite.
The middle of three brick miso storehouses on a Yanagawa canal. French bond walls, two segmental arches its neighbours later copied, and a Japanese roof frame.
The largest of three brick miso storehouses facing a Yanagawa canal, roofed with a Western king post truss and bound to its neighbours by one sawtooth brick cornice.
The Najima Bridge of 1933 over the Tatara River in Fukuoka carries Route 3 on seven flat concrete arches, with classical balconies and domed newel posts.
The chapel of the Lutheran church in Kurume, Fukuoka, an early brick work of 1918 by William Merrell Vories, opens a column-free space under scissor trusses.
The brick wall of about 1927 at the Lutheran church in Kurume, Fukuoka, shows seven arches between evenly spaced piers, a street frontage that matches the chapel.
Tetsugyuan, the tea house of the Nogata Tanio Art Museum in Fukuoka, was built around 1941 in sukiya style. Tea room, mizuya and waiting room run in one line.
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