Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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An early Showa brick water tank behind the main house of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: concrete basin, 2.3-metre arched brick top. Registered 2011.
A large farmhouse of about 1875 in Tanto, Toyooka: a thatched hip-and-gable roof under slate, earthen floor to the west, formal rooms to the east. Registered 2011.
An early Showa yakuimon-style garden gate on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka, 1.4 metres wide with widely spaced rafters, dividing the garden. Registered 2011.
An early Showa earthen wall wrapping the northeast corner of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: 16 metres on fieldstone with a bracketed gate. Registered 2011.
An 1884 storehouse for the household's own rice on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka, with a waterwheel set under its east canopy. Registered in 2011; not open.
An 1879 two-storey storehouse on the east edge of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka, its southern ridge a step lower; the oldest storehouse there. Registered 2011.
An early Showa timber wall on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: 5.0 metres of boards and plaster, a sliding door and a stepped roof. Registered 2011.
A 1919 guest wing on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: alcove, writing desk, staggered shelves, carved transoms and a lacquered frame and ceiling. Registered 2011.
An early Showa earthen wall lining the road on the south side of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: 48 metres of mortar-faced earth on fieldstone. Registered 2011.
An 1886 storehouse for unhulled rice on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka, with an L-shaped two-storey forebuilding under one sweeping roof. Registered in 2011.
An early Showa gate and wall linking two storehouses on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: a 1.3-metre sliding door and a short roof on brackets. Registered 2011.
This eleven-square-metre storehouse at Otsuchi Shrine in Kobe holds ritual gear behind walls broken only by one door and a vent. Built 1929, registered in 2016.
A late-Edo torii of Rokko granite, 5.2 metres high, marks the south edge of Otsuchi Shrine in Kobe, a village enriched by water-mill oil pressing. Listed in 2016.
Built around 1929, Otsuchi Shrine's joined worship and offering halls in Kobe pair the plainest bracketing with a wide coffered ceiling. Registered in 2016.
The main hall of Otsuchi Shrine in Kobe covers 1.5 square metres. Built late in the Edo period for a village of oil-pressing water mills, it was registered in 2016.
A modest wing where the retired head of the Otoshi household lived. Set along the north-east wall, it pairs a six-mat room with a four-mat anteroom. Registered 1999.
This grain store sits where the estate's south-east and south-west faces meet, sharing one roof with the adjoining carpenter's room. Its street face is board-clad.
A relatively large rice store in the south garden, its entrance flanked by namako lattice-plaster walls. A slightly offset ridge hints it may predate the 1835 main house.
Built in 1835 for the great headman of the lower Kakogawa, this 455-square-metre, hip-and-gable-roofed house heads a nine-building compound registered in 1999.
A small tea room off the veranda of the main house, pairing a three-mat tea space with a two-mat preparation area. A copper eave shades its south side. Registered 1999.
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