Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late Edo yakuimon gate 2.6 m wide at the south front of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, with round-and-flat tiles and a butterfly crest; registered 2012.

A tall two-story Meiji barn and a gate with a sliding door and wicket on the west side of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, registered together in 2012; not open.

A two-story late Edo earthen storehouse on the east side of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, split into an inner store and a rice store; registered 2012.

A late Edo thatched farmhouse in Sayo, Hyogo, 22.7 m long, with an earth-floored work area and eight raised rooms; a typical big Harima house registered in 2012.

An early Meiji gate 1.3 m wide before the main entrance of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, with a swelling copper roof and part see-through walls; registered 2012.

A short late Edo wall at the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, stepping up from the rice storehouse to the rear wall, white plaster over a board base; registered 2012.

A 45 m late Edo earthen wall running from the front gate of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, on fitted cut stone, with a small east gate; registered 2012.

A mid-Meiji detached guest wing at the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo: two rooms, a corner veranda, and a finely worked railing and transoms; registered in 2012.

Inaoka Family Residence Main Building, Kasai, Hyogo: a late Meiji brewer's house that doubled as the brewery office, with mushiko windows over the tsushi loft.

Inaoka Family Residence Detached Wing, Kasai: an early Showa guest wing of two eight-mat rooms, with a one-room Western annex in French tile and rough render.

Built in 1853 at Fukuyoshi in Sayo, Hyogo, this thatched two-storey farmhouse keeps a formal shikidai entrance and an eight-room plan. Registered 2024. Not open.

This late Edo storehouse behind the Inoue main house at Fukuyoshi in Sayo, Hyogo, has earthen walls stopped at the middle coat, a stone plinth and pantiles.

The oldest of six registered buildings on a former headman's estate in Amagasaki: a later-Edo two-storey storehouse, plastered and board-clad, on the street front.

Late Edo main house of a former village headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo: six rooms, two central pillars and plastered walls. Registered 2011. Private.

Early Meiji two-storey barn joined to the main house of a former headman's estate in Amagasaki: earth-floored work space below, two reception rooms above. Private.

A small early Meiji annex on a former headman's estate in Amagasaki: one six-mat room with a tokonoma, a stair to the gatehouse, a lattice window. Registered 2011.

Early Meiji single-storey storehouse in the corner of a former headman's garden in Amagasaki, with namako tile walls and a plaster door bearing a war-fan motif.

Early Meiji two-storey front gate of a former headman's estate in Amagasaki, with zelkova board doors, a wicket on each side and roofs stepped at its sides.

A 1916 clothing storehouse behind a Himeji townhouse, 5.9 by 3.8 m, white plaster with a tiled namako dado on the door side only. Registered in 2014; not open.

A 1900 townhouse on Himeji's Nozato road with a swelling tiled roof, lattice front and black-plastered upper floor with mokkō windows. Registered 2014; exterior.

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