Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The front gate and wall of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, a gabled munemon with white-plaster walls. A frog-leg strut supports the ridge, marking it as formal.

The kitchen and well area of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, an L-shaped service block on the road corner where a kitchen wing meets a well wing.

The tool storehouse of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, an early-Meiji plastered dozo with shippo-pattern namako tilework. It is the oldest of the five buildings.

The main house of the Takatsu family, doctors near Himeji since the late Edo period. Built around 1894, it has a rare kara-hafu entrance gable and a former clinic wing.

The garden gate and wall of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, a bracket-arm gate dividing the forecourt from the reception garden. It is the newest of the five.

The former Matsumoto residence in Takarazuka, Hyogo, built in 1937 to a design by Kawasaki Shinobu, is a Western-style house with an S-tile roof and a bay window.

A granite plinth beside Kakogawa's copper-clad Takihama Yokan, cut in 1936 for a bronze of fertiliser pioneer Taki Kumejiro that wartime metal drives took.

A mid-Meiji clothing storehouse joined to the Tajika main house in Amagasaki: 2 storeys, 6 by 4.4 metres, white plaster partly clad with charred cedar boards.

A mid-Meiji rice storehouse on the Tajika family's western street front in Amagasaki: 2 storeys, 9.6 by 3.9 metres, varying ridge and windows from its neighbours.

The Tajika family's main house in Nishikoya, Amagasaki: late Edo, remodelled around 1887, 19 by 12 metres, with a loft, black plaster walls and layered roofs.

The oldest of the Tajika family's five registered buildings in Amagasaki: a late Edo pair of stores, one 2-storey and one lower, boarded below and plastered above.

The Tajika family's gatehouse in Nishikoya, Amagasaki, renewed around 1887: 13 metres long in black plaster, a gateway and wicket door at one end, behind a hedge.

An 1881 landowner's house in Kashu, Minamiawaji, home of the Tanaka Manbei line: a hip-and-gable tiled roof, a central corridor and a sukiya-style tea room wing.

The c.1887 main house of a leading farm family in Tonouchi, Amagasaki: hip-and-gable pantile roof, plastered upper walls, slatted windows, two formal front rooms.

A c.1887 roofed wall wrapping the Tanaka compound in Amagasaki for 64 meters, white plaster over charred cedar on a cut-stone base, framing the way to the east gate.

The c.1887 main gate of the Tanaka compound in Amagasaki: a gabled timber gate with a 2.1-meter opening, single-board zelkova doors and a wicket in a plastered wall.

A c.1887 two-story inner storehouse joined to the Tanaka main house in Amagasaki, on a cut-stone base, with plastered walls, a boarded base and a round-tile roof.

The Nagata Family Residence Pond Stonework in Minamiawaji is a Meiji pond of cut sandstone, 2.7 m deep, with stones shaped as a gourd and a cup. Registered in 2011.

The Nagata Family Residence Furniture Storehouse in Minamiawaji is a Meiji storehouse linked to the guest wing, with two tatami rooms upstairs. Registered in 2011.

The Nagata Family Residence Main House in Minamiawaji, Awaji Island, is a large Meiji farmhouse with a six-room plan, registered in 2011 as a model of design.

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