Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Yoriguchi Bridge in Yame, Fukuoka, a two-span arch of welded tuff built in 1920 with village funds and local gifts, still carries traffic over the Hoshino River.

The front gate of Ryotei Kinnabe in Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, built in about 1917, uses logs for its brackets and rafters and a glazed transom in a modern sukiya style.

Ryotei Kinnabe in Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, founded in 1895, keeps a three-storey timber building of about 1917 with sukiya rooms and a black-plastered exterior.

The entrance wing of the Ryotei Sato villa in Ogori, Fukuoka, built in 1925, has a Western room with playful reliefs of tigers, lions and mermaids on its walls.

The hall wing of the Ryotei Sato villa in Ogori, Fukuoka, built in 1925, sets two tatami rooms in echelon, opened to the garden by glazed transom screens.

The gate of the Ryotei Sato villa in Ogori, Fukuoka, a late Meiji gate moved here in 1927, faces the old highway with massive posts and a high ridge above.

Ryotei Masa Front Gate and Wall, the 1954 gate and 107 m tiled wall around a ryotei in Nakasu, Fukuoka: a canopied west gate and board-faced wall, seen from outside.

Ryotei Masa Main House, a 1954 two-story dining hall in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with clay okabe walls, three rooms and an upstairs hall off central corridors, and access.

Ryotei Masa New Wing, a 1961 tatami wing in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with a 12-mat room, fusuma that slide into the walls, horizontal-bar shoji and a flat lit ceiling.

Ryotei Masa Kitchen Wing, a 1954 service wing behind the main house in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with a kitchen, office and reception room in the Yoshida Isoya manner.

Ryotei Masa Detached Wing, a 1954 garden pavilion in Nakasu, Fukuoka, with a moon-viewing veranda, a tea room with a naguri post and lattice window, copper eaves.

Reizenso in Hakata, Fukuoka, a concrete apartment block of 1958 with stepped terraces, survives from the post-war rebuilding of old Hakata and now houses artists.

An early-Taisho storehouse on the Abe estate in Fukushima City, the only stone one among clay stores, with cut tuff walls, a stone band and a king post truss.

A mid-Meiji storehouse facing the street on the Abe estate in Fukushima City that kept cocoons below and housed workers above, with red tiles and namako walls.

A Taisho-era four-room guest wing on the Abe estate in Fukushima City, once joined to the back of an earlier main house, with the estate's only copper roof.

A 1953 two-storey house at the centre of the Abe estate in Fukushima City, its rooms divided by clay walls rather than sliding doors, with a wide south corridor.

A mid-Meiji two-room guest wing on the Abe estate in Fukushima City, once joined to an earlier main house, with a hip-and-gable south end and bark-edged rails.

A late-Meiji storehouse on the Abe estate in Fukushima City, plastered white up to its eaves with a black shutter, the only store registered as a model of design.

The oldest of the Abe estate's nine buildings in Fukushima City: a late-Edo clay storehouse on the corner, white-plastered with a black band under its eaves.

The smallest storehouse on the Abe estate in Fukushima City: a mid-Meiji clay store behind the kitchen, its door and windows outlined in white plaster.

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