Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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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.
An early Showa board fence along the inner garden of the Hirao guest house in Morio, Toyooka: 28 metres of vertical boarding on a low rubble retaining wall.
A mid-Meiji rainwater basin among the Hirao storehouses in Morio, Toyooka: 1.8 metres square in cut stone with a brick rim and a 15-metre drain westward.
A mid-Meiji partition and wicket gate by the Hirao treasure storehouse in Morio, Toyooka: a 10-metre board fence dividing two gardens, clad differently on each side.
A mid-Meiji wall and gate beside the Hirao retirement house in Morio, Toyooka: 8.6 metres of boarding left open at the top, with a 1.6-metre bracketed gate.
An early Showa wall and gate on the north side of the Hirao inner garden in Morio, Toyooka: 25 metres of boarding on a stone footing and a 1.8-metre bracketed gate.
Running 164 metres along the Ajiwara River in Hamasaka, Hyogo, this wall mixes rough Edo masonry with cut stone of 1912 and keeps a boat landing and steps.
A 1928 single-bay nagare-style shrine of just 1.0 m² west of Nagata Shrine's main hall in Kobe, paired with the Amaterasu Shrine to the east. Registered 2002.
A later Edo noh stage at Tomari Shrine in Kakogawa, Hyogo, registered in 2008, with a 4.9-metre main stage, side and rear stages, a bridgeway and bold exposed beams.
A 1936 drum house at Tomari Shrine in Kakogawa, Hyogo, registered in 2008, with a large north doorway, earthen walls clad in charred boards and a two-form roof.
A tiny Meiji-period subsidiary shrine at Tomari Shrine in Kakogawa, Hyogo, registered in 2008, matching the Sumiyoshi shrine beside it in size, form and carving.
A late Edo offering hall at Tomari Shrine in Kakogawa, Hyogo, registered in 2008, linking the kagura hall to the main hall, with a single tatami room inside.
The Kiyomizudera Temple Guest Hall in Kato, built in 1917, is a three-room wing for visitors with verandas on three sides under a low hip-and-gable roof.
The Kiyomizudera Temple Honbo in Kato, built in 1917, houses the temple office under one great gabled roof, with a karahafu porch facing the Great Lecture Hall.
The Kiyomizudera Temple Great Lecture Hall in Kato, rebuilt in 1917, is a seven-bay hall under a pyramidal tiled roof holding the image of pilgrimage stop 25.
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