Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The 1934 tea room at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, pairs a four-and-a-half-mat room with a tiled chair-seated tea area and glazed windows. Rentable and often open.

The Tool Room at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 red and yellow shed with crest-shaped high windows, a stepped-roof toilet bay and a shared canopy.

The Earthen Wall at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 tiled clay wall running about 98 m on a tall stone base around the estate, with a back door and back gate.

The 1934 attendants' shelter at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, sets posts on low concrete walls under a curved beam, corrugated roof and bamboo ceiling. 4.2 m².

The Middle Storehouse at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 two-story plastered store on a high vented stone plinth, the center of three behind the water tower.

The Garden Wall at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 13 m tiled wall of 1934 between forecourt and inner garden, boarded on one face and cedar bark on the other.

The Guardhouse at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 watchman's lodge at the entrance path, with a gently curved tile roof, two small rooms and a veranda.

The Miso Room at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 plastered storehouse of 11 m² whose red bengara door and bracketed canopy tie it to the sheds beside it.

A late Edo farmhouse at Tatsuno, Hyogo, that served as the honjin of Senbon-juku. Its shikidai entrance and hon-kawara roof mark a headman's rank; registered 2004.

A mid-Meiji two-storey dozo on the eastern edge of the Utsumi estate at Tatsuno, Hyogo. Boarded on two faces, plastered to the eaves on the rest; registered in 2004.

A late Edo gatehouse facing the old Himeji-Tottori highway at Tatsuno, Hyogo. A tatami room lies west of the gate, a board-floored room east; registered 2004.

The Somatani Sabo Dam in Nada, Kobe, completed in 1956, is a gravity concrete erosion-control dam with a slit in its spillway, said to be the first of its type.

The main hall of Daishinji in Kasai, Hyogo, built in 1845, is a standard three-bay Jodo hall whose simplified interior is typical of the late Edo period.

Built in 1851 at Yokoo in Kasai City, Hyogo, the Takai Family Residence Main Building sets barred plaster loft windows over a projecting lattice front.

On the old highway west of the main house in Kasai City, Hyogo, this early Meiji tool store of 15 square metres carries a roof set clear of its earthen shell.

East of the main house in Kasai City, Hyogo, this early Meiji storehouse was registered as hard to reproduce: its purlins sit on beams cut to a convex curve.

At the property's western edge stands this sukiya-style gate: round-log posts, three-tier framed doors and a cedar-bark roof over wooden shingles, worked with care.

This small plastered storehouse east of the Japanese wing has a honshogawara tile roof and upper eaves sealed in white lime, a quiet record of a Hanshin garden suburb.

Completed in 1928 in Takarazuka's Hanayashiki garden suburb, this registered house pairs a varied hipped-and-gabled silhouette with Art Deco and Secession interiors.

Added to the Western house in 1954, this Japanese wing has an eight-mat room with a polished-log alcove post and a corridor under an arched boat-bottom ceiling.

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