Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A 1907 tool storehouse at the back of a Himeji townhouse plot, 14.5 m long, with a boarded dado and two rooms that each have their own door. Registered 2014.
A guest wing of about 1916 behind a Himeji townhouse: hip-and-gable roof, veranda all round, a 10-mat room with kozama and kumiko transoms. Registered 2014; private.
A storehouse of about 1925 behind a Himeji kimono shop, with two rooms that each have a door and lower walls faced with boards and split bamboo. Registered 2014.
A 1925 kimono shop on Himeji's Nozato road: plastered cornice, glazed upper windows, a tatami sales room with coffered ceiling and a former open well. Listed 2014.
An 1899 townhouse beside the 1925 shop of a Himeji kimono store, with lower eaves, plastered rafters and slatted upper windows. Registered in 2014; exterior only.
A small storehouse of about 1899 behind a Himeji kimono merchant's house, with a tiled dado, a stepped fireproof door and a pickle store attached. Registered 2014.
Unshoji's entrance and priests' quarters in Himeji, built about 1930, join a karahafu-roofed entrance to tatami rooms with doors painted with geese, pine and plum.
The Sannodo of Unshoji in Himeji is a small hall of 1931 for the deity Sanno Gongen, a traditional hip-and-gable building given a modern front of glazed doors.
The main gate of Unshoji in Himeji is a mid-Edo bell-tower gate, moved here in 1915, with paired square and round posts and a railed upper storey hung with a bell.
The main hall of Unshoji in Himeji, built in 1751, wraps a pent roof around its tiled hip-and-gable roof, with fan rafters and a six-room Ōbaku Zen plan inside.
The Enichiji Temple Back Gate in Tanba, Hyogo, is a mid-Edo yakuimon gate 2.3 metres wide, the oldest of five registered buildings, with carved beam ends.
The Enichiji Temple Sutra Repository in Tanba, Hyogo, is a late Edo earthen storehouse holding a rare palace-style sutra cabinet with fan rafters in a tall room.
The Enichiji Temple Priests' Quarters in Tanba, Hyogo, is a late Edo thatched kuri of 373 square metres, the largest registered building here, with an earthen entry.
The Enichiji Temple Bell Tower in Tanba, Hyogo, is a tall skirted belfry of 1867 with a cypress-bark roof, exposed roof framing above its bronze bell.
The Enichiji Temple Abbot's Quarters in Tanba, Hyogo, is a late Edo thatched Zen hall with a six-room plan and wide verandas, linked by corridors to the Buddha hall.
The Ohashi Bridge at Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, a concrete skew bridge of 1927 over the Otani River, has lantern-topped posts over 3 metres tall that accent the town.
An early Showa two-storey living wing on the north edge of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: two six-mat rooms on each floor, ceilings that differ by level.
An early Showa service wing west of the main house in Tanto, Toyooka: a two-storey woodshed and the Oku-uchiniwa link, with exposed framing and lattice windows.
An 1892 storehouse on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: 14 metres long, split into a miso store and a tool store, under a separate okiyane roof. Registered 2011.
An early Showa storehouse on the north edge of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: a tall single-storey volume with evenly spaced windows under an okiyane roof.
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