Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Yagi family's household storehouse at Himeji, the only building on the site firmly dated to 1846, a two-story mud-walled store with a raised-beam roof.

Main house of the Yagi family, hereditary headmen on the Ibo River in Himeji, a large single-story farmhouse under a hip-and-gable roof, registered in 2021.

A two-story mud-walled storehouse in the Yagi compound at Himeji. Its west half is a shoin parlor for receiving domain officials, its east half a plain store.

The rice granary of the Yagi family, who held the annual tax rice at Himeji. This two-story mud-walled store sits by a former waterway for loading by boat.

The gatehouse of the Yagi compound at Himeji. Behind its formal tiled facade with a wicket door lay the estate's counting room to the west and a cattle shed.

The former Yamatoya Ryokan of 1927 on Yunosato-dori in Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, a narrow three-storey inn, fronts the hot spring street with glass doors and railings.

The smallest of five registered structures at a 1930s Nishinomiya villa by Okada Takao: a timber gatehouse of nineteen square metres with a stone-faced side gate.

The former Wadamisaki Lighthouse, rebuilt in iron in 1884 and now in Suma Beach Park, Kobe, is Japan's oldest iron lighthouse, called the Red Lighthouse of Suma.

Late Edo stone retaining walls, 109 metres long and up to 5 metres high, that level the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, their mixed masonry a record of repair.

An early Showa well in the Kusaka garden in Awaga, Asago: granite blocks notched into a square curb 0.7 metres across over a 4.1-metre shaft, edged with fieldstone.

An 1846 storehouse joined to the Kusaka main house in Awaga, Asago, 6.0 by 5.0 metres, with plaster, pebble render and stone in three bands and garden windows.

A mid-Meiji stable by the front gate of the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago: 3.9 by 4.1 metres, with cattle kept below, servants above, and plain clay walls.

The 1839 back gate of the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, 3.0 metres long, with double doors, a wicket and three rows of brackets under eaves facing the street.

An early Showa front gate at the Kusaka house in Hibarigaoka, Takarazuka: doorless concrete posts 0.7 metres high in pebble finish, an open entrance from the street.

The late Edo front gate of the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago: a one-bay yakuimon in zelkova, 2.4 metres wide, framed by the stable and charcoal shed.

An early Showa wooden fence by the Kusaka front gate in Awaga, Asago: a 9.3-metre roofed timber paling on a stone wall that softens the approach to the house.

A late Taisho guest bathhouse in the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, 3.6 by 3.2 metres, with fan rafters, polished-log beams, wickerwork and a large round window.

The 1939 forestry office of the Kusaka family in Awaga, Asago: an earthen-walled building 9.4 by 5.9 metres with a columned porch and tall windows in Western style.

A late Edo counting house northwest of the Kusaka main house in Awaga, Asago: 2 storeys, 7.1 by 5.9 metres, with yellow clay walls and a plain lattice front.

An 1843 household shrine in the Kusaka garden in Awaga, Asago: a one-bay nagare shrine in cypress bark with layered gables, two tiers of brackets and a dragon.

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