Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Taisho-era guest annex north of the Kajiwara main house in Oshio, Himeji, with its own shikidai entrance, a mizuya and an eight-mat room with a round-window alcove.

A darkroom of about 1897 on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: 3.5 m², painted black inside for developing, with menkawa posts and clay walls outside.

A concrete book store of c. 1947 on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: the newest of its 20 registered buildings, with a tiled roof and a slatted floor.

Late Meiji rice storehouse on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: a 12 m kura, half converted into an office in 1950, facing the north parlor across a forecourt.

Taisho-era working privy in the tea garden of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: 2.2 m², with a roof hipped on one side and gabled on the other, in cypress bark.

Main house of a salt-field landowner in Oshio, Himeji: an 1853 irimoya-roofed block with a six-room plan, plus a 1906 reception wing. 435 m², registered in 2009.

Main house of the Naka-Nishi-Kajiwara estate in Tenjin, Oshio, Himeji: a 1922 gable-entry irimoya house with layered roofs, an east doma and garden-side rooms.

Late Edo storehouse in the northwest corner of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: the oldest of its 20 registered buildings, on a trapezoidal plan.

Taisho-era toilet beside the back door of the Kajiwara main house in Oshio, Himeji: a 0.97 m wide block of four stalls with mortar-based walls and lath windows.

Mid-Meiji timber storehouse on the south edge of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: 170 m², trapezoidal and board-clad, recalling the salt fields that lay beyond.

A 1906 tea room beside the Kajiwara main house in Oshio, Himeji: a four-and-a-half-mat space with a daime alcove, a kininguchi, a nijiriguchi and a round window.

Taisho-era thatched tea house on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji, with three tea rooms of 4.5, 4 and 2 mats, a stepped roof and a ladle-handle window.

Taisho-era gate to the tea quarter of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: cedar-log posts on tall stones, bamboo and log rafters, a cypress-bark roof.

Storehouse of the Naka-Nishi-Kajiwara estate in Tenjin, Oshio, Himeji: built in 1842 per its ridge tag, moved in late Taisho, with two rooms and fine brackets.

Mid-Meiji barn on the west side of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji, moved c. 1956, with an open lean-to on the east and clay walls left at the second coat.

Taisho-era shrine in the Kajiwara estate, Oshio, Himeji: a thatched one-bay shinmei-zukuri building of 0.64 m², with ridge posts, on a river-stone base.

Taisho-era parlor south of the Kajiwara main house in Oshio, Himeji: an eight-mat room with a wave-edged katomado and a ceiling after Urasenke's Totsutotsusai.

An 1899 earthen storehouse behind a merchant house in Aboshi, Himeji: 26 m² on two floors with white plaster, plastered eaves and namako tile walls. Registered 2009.

An 1862 merchant house in Aboshi, Himeji: 23 m by 14 m under a stepped hip-and-gable roof whose ridge drops in two places, with a formal entrance. Registered 2009.

A Meiji-period household shrine of 0.31 m² in a merchant compound in Aboshi, Himeji: copper roof, granite base, round posts inside and square posts in front.

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.

UNESCO-inscribed cultural and natural sites across the archipelago.