Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late Edo larder for salt and miso beside the Hirao retirement house in Morio, Toyooka: a single-storey storehouse of 3 bays, moved in Meiji, earth floor.

A late Meiji retirement house behind the Hirao main house in Morio, Toyooka: a single storey of 94 m² with an alcoved main room at the garden end, renovated in 2004.

An early Showa storehouse on the northern edge of the Hirao estate in Morio, Toyooka: 2 storeys under a floating roof, part of a U-shaped group around a farmyard.

A late Edo service bridge in the Hirao estate, Morio, Toyooka: four stones, 3.0 by 1.5 metres, with full-width steps, linking the kitchen side to the storehouses.

A late Edo stone bridge in the Hirao estate, Morio, Toyooka, carrying the cart road from the gatehouse to the main house: 3.0 by 2.5 metres with a slight arch.

The Odagaki Family Residence Wall is a 22-meter late Meiji wall in Tamba-Sasayama, with board, plaster and tile bands and copper-roofed garden gates on the street.

Ashida Family Residence Stone Wall and Earthen Wall, a late Edo retaining wall 2.5 m high in Tanba, Hyogo, of fieldstone and random masonry under an earthen wall.

A mid-Meiji wall along the street front of the Hirao estate in Morio, Toyooka: 58 metres of tile-topped wall, plastered to the street and plain clay inside.

A mid-Meiji service gate at the west end of the Hirao estate in Morio, Toyooka: a bracketed gate 3.2 metres wide with sliding doors, set at the end of the road.

A mid-Meiji well shelter between the rice storehouse and carpenters' shed of the Hirao estate in Morio, Toyooka: 2.7 metres square over a stone well curb.

An early Showa water tower beside the Hirao well house in Morio, Toyooka: a two-tier angle-iron frame with an arched lower bay, topped by a sheet-steel tank.

A late Edo roofed washing place on the river through the Hirao estate in Morio, Toyooka: 5 stone steps cut into the embankment under a light 3.9-metre shelter.

An early Showa clay wall enclosing the garden of the Hirao main house in Morio, Toyooka: 19 metres on a rubble base, exposed posts inside and black plaster outside.

A mid-Meiji gate and fence before the formal entrance of the Hirao main house in Morio, Toyooka: a 1.5-metre bracketed gate with 12 metres of black plaster fence.

A mid-Meiji gate for honoured guests before the Hirao guest house in Morio, Toyooka: a 2.5-metre bracketed gate with 27 metres of lattice-windowed wall by the river.

A mid-Meiji partition wall and gate between the Hirao guest house and main garden in Morio, Toyooka: white plaster toward the guests and plain clay toward the house.

Late Edo embankments lining the river through the Hirao estate in Morio, Toyooka: 148 metres of granite, basalt and fieldstone framing the house across the water.

A mid-Meiji partition and wicket gate between the Hirao guest house and inner garden in Morio, Toyooka: white plaster, a plank door, and a bay under the eaves.

An early Showa partition between the Hirao main house and barn in Morio, Toyooka: 3.6 metres with a sliding door, dividing the household side from the work yard.

A mid-Meiji porch on the Hirao ceramics storehouse in Morio, Toyooka, with a back gate between two storehouses; its bare gable timbers stand out on plaster.

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