Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A 1931 storehouse joined to the Hirao main house in Morio, Toyooka: 8 bays, 2 storeys, red tiles, 102 m², and a main vault entered only through the central room.
An 1826 guest house in the Hirao estate, Morio, Toyooka, remodelled in Meiji: formal rooms with alcoves on both floors facing the garden, plus its own entrance.
A mid-Meiji farm shed in the northwest corner of the Hirao estate, Morio, Toyooka: 6 bays and 2 storeys, open to the yard and to the fields, with a service gate.
An 1887 storehouse for tableware northwest of the Hirao main house in Morio, Toyooka: 2 storeys, floating roof, and two hooded windows offset on the north wall.
Despite its name, this 1790 storehouse behind the Hirao main house in Morio, Toyooka, is the estate's oldest dated building: white plaster under a floating roof.
An early Showa miniature shrine on the garden hill behind the Hirao guest house in Morio, Toyooka: a one-bay nagare-style shrine on a stone base in the garden.
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.
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