Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 6.1 m Taisho-era earthen wall in Aridagawa, Wakayama, on a diagonal stone base, plastered on the inside and finished in washed aggregate toward the street.

An early Showa farm barn on the street side of a mikan-growing estate in Aridagawa, Wakayama, with plastered walls over boarding, used to store tools and sort fruit.

A two-storey Taisho-era annex in Aridagawa, Wakayama: white clapboard and sash windows outside, tatami inside, where painter Kawaguchi Kigai lived in wartime.

The Matsushita Memorial Museum at Kii-Fudoki-no-Oka, Wakayama, designed by Urabe Shizutaro in 1971, blends into a field of burial mounds with ancient motifs.

The Former Katsuragikan Inn by Koyaguchi Station in Hashimoto, Wakayama, is a late Meiji timber inn of three full storeys with copper pent roofs at every floor.

The former Kamiakizu Elementary School in Tanabe, Wakayama, now Akizuno Garten, is a long timber school of 1953 with an escape route to the hill and fire doors.

The former Kanda family villa, Tosontei, in Kushimoto, Wakayama, is a merchant villa of 1874 finished in cedar said to come from a huge tree washed up on the shore.

The former Kii-Yuasa Station in Yuasa, Wakayama, a timber station of 1927 with a half-hipped roof and gabled porch, conveys pre-war design in a soy-sauce town.

Built in 1934 on the campus of Kokawa High School in Kinokawa City, this 131-square-metre timber wing housed residential home economics practice. Registered 2023.

A 156-metre concrete terrace cut into a hillside at Toin High School, Wakayama, built in 1922 after two national baseball titles and Japan's first imperial ballgame.

A 1929 concrete reading room at Toin High School, Wakayama, given by parents for the school's fiftieth year, with a columned west porch and a crest set in mortar.

The stone steps and walls of the former Chapman house in Shingu, Wakayama, of about 1926, are diagonally laid granite-porphyry walls and fieldstone steps.

The former Chapman house in Shingu, Wakayama, a missionary house of 1926 designed by Nishimura Isaku, has a projecting gable and bay window and now serves visitors.

A 28-meter Taishō-era net-making workshop in Hirogawa, Wakayama, with many windows and few posts; registered in 2016, it now houses a reservation-only restaurant.

A 36 m² early Shōwa cottage of a Hirogawa net-making family, said to have housed Toda Yasutarō's brother, with a curved roof and fan-rafter eaves; registered 2016.

An early Shōwa guest wing of a Hirogawa net-making family, with two 10-mat rooms in fine cypress and copper-edged eaves; registered in 2016, it is now a guest room.

A tall 1920s townhouse of a Hirogawa net-making family with a plaster-bracketed lattice window; registered in 2016, its front room is now a community space for hire.

An early Shōwa storehouse of a Hirogawa net-making family, a 5.9 m square with a heavy tiled roof and namako walls; registered 2016, it is now a guest room.

An early Shōwa household storehouse of a Hirogawa net-making family, with namako walls set diagonally on one side and in a grid on the other; registered 2016.

A 1927 reinforced concrete office in Wakayama City with an Ionic portico on a footprint of only 82 square metres, left standing after the 1945 air raid.

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