Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A 25 m Meiji earthen workhouse at a Takeda sake brewery that once held a koji room and the sake press, its long white wall facing the castle hill. Registered 2015.
A small Meiji gate and 9.7 m street wall at a Takeda sake brewery, finished to match the house's reception room, with a lattice transom. Registered 2015.
Former Tamaoki Family Residence North Storehouse, Miki, Hyogo: a Meiji storehouse with round windows on a flood-proof stone base by the Minogawa; registered 2002.
Former Tamaoki Family Residence Main House, Miki, Hyogo: a late Edo townhouse built as a domain banknote office, with a raised inner room; registered in 2002.
Former Tamaoki Family Residence West Storehouse, Miki, Hyogo: a Meiji storehouse on the plot next door, with a trapezoid anteroom; registered in 2002.
Former Tamaoki Family Residence Annex, Miki, Hyogo: a two-storey Meiji guest wing with an alcove room and verandas facing two gardens; registered in 2002.
Former Tamaoki Family Residence East Storehouse, Miki, Hyogo: a tiny Meiji tool store called the six-mat storehouse, with namako tile walls; registered in 2002.
Former Tamaoki Family Residence Corridor, Miki, Hyogo: a 10-meter Meiji walkway with a copper roof, open to the courtyard, with bath and toilet; registered 2002.
A c. 1919 hexagonal gazebo from the home of Hiraga Yoshimi at the Kawanishi City Local Museum, with cast-iron columns, glass transoms and a star-patterned floor.
The 1918 laboratory of chemist Hiraga Yoshimi at the Kawanishi City Local Museum, a 2-storey building linked to his English-style house by a stepped bridge.
The 1918 home of chemist Hiraga Yoshimi, modelled on the English country house with bay windows, fireplaces and chimneys, moved to the Kawanishi City Local Museum.
A 1940 service gate in Himeji leading to the kitchen door, pairing log posts and carved braces with sliding glazed doors and a lit bamboo transom. Registered 2022.
A 1930 Himeji tea house: a six-mat room under a bamboo-blind boat-bottom ceiling, wide shoji to the garden, a path led indoors. Named by Tantansai. Registered 2022.
A birthing hall built about 1935 for Princess Kaya's confinement in Himeji, later moved here: two tatami rooms and a glazed, railed veranda. Registered in 2022.
A 1930 tea-garden privy in Himeji, 0.9 m² with a corner cut for its door, an asymmetric cedar-bark roof, rust-toned clay walls and a lattice window. Registered 2022.
A 1940 house in Himeji by architect Ebihara Ichiro, pairing a slate-paved porch and strip-windowed Western parlour with sukiya-style tatami rooms. Registered 2022.
A 1930 waiting pavilion for tea guests in Himeji: tiled bench, entry, three-mat room and preparation area in 17 m², with a cedar-bark eave and smoked-bamboo ceiling.
A 1930 tea preparation house in Himeji: six-mat room, earth-floored work area, privy and storeroom, clad in cedar bark to the garden and boards to the street.
A 1930 bracket gate in Himeji leading guests to the tea garden, with knotted log posts, adze-carved braces, polished-log purlins and bamboo rafters. Registered 2022.
The former Maya hotel on Mount Maya above Kobe, built in 1930, has curving walls wrapped in canopies and an Art Deco interior that recall a vanished mountain resort.
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