Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Okamoto storehouse in Hashimoto, Wakayama, built in 1962, is a two-storey plastered kura under a separately set roof, standing northwest of the main house.
The Okamoto nagayamon in Hashimoto, Wakayama, from the late Edo period, is a long gatehouse with a barn and a cowshed on either side of its central passage.
The annex of the Okamoto Residence in Hashimoto, Wakayama, built about 1965, is a two-room wing linked to the main house, with an alcove and pierced transoms.
Oldest building of the Ozaki house in Kuroe: a mid-Edo wing with alcove, shelves and desk in sukiya style and deep eaves, joined to the main house in Taisho.
A tall 1924 earthen storehouse where the Ozaki lacquer merchants of Kuroe kept their goods: three floors, white plaster walls, dated by its ridge-raising offering.
Mid-Taisho townhouse at the heart of the Ozaki lacquer merchants' Kuroe home: shop and living rooms under one hip-and-gable roof, with a lacquered coffered ceiling.
A c.1924 two-storey earthen storehouse on the south edge of the Ozaki property in Kuroe, built with local methods: heavy rafters off the ridge and round gable vents.
The Odai Irrigation Canal Kozumi River Aqueduct is a small 1914 brick arch in Kinokawa, Wakayama, the only one of the canal's four with English bond and a plaque.
The Odai Irrigation Canal Koniwadani River Aqueduct is a 1909 brick arch carrying the canal over a stream in Katsuragi, Wakayama, among its earliest rebuilt parts.
The Odai Irrigation Canal Tatsunotoi Aqueduct is a 1919 arch of brick and stone carrying the canal over the Anabuse valley, Wakayama, the largest of its four parts.
The Odai Irrigation Canal Nakatani River Water Gate is a 1912 brick siphon taking the canal under the Nakatani River in Katsuragi, Wakayama, registered in 2006.
Kada Family Residence Front Gate, an early Showa gate in Wakayama City, pairs a central gate with two side doors under stepped gables of fine cypress and zelkova.
Kada Family Residence Koshikake Machiai, an early Showa waiting bench in a Wakayama tea garden, uses log posts and rafters, a lattice window and a privy behind.
Kada Family Residence Main House, a 1929 one-storey home in Wakayama City, sets its rooms in a stepped plan along the garden under three gabled entrance roofs.
Kada Family Residence Tea Room, built in 1931 in Wakayama City by sukiya carpenter Hirai Gisaburo, joins the small Furoan and eight-mat Gyogetsutei by a corridor.
Kada Family Residence Storehouse, a 1931 two-storey plastered store in Wakayama City, hides a Western king post truss and carries swirl motifs in lime plaster.
Kada Family Residence Torii, a granite shinmei torii of 1931 in Wakayama City, stands 2.2 m high before the household shrine with straight pillars and lintel.
Kada Family Residence Wall, an early Showa brick wall in Wakayama City, runs 31 m along the street, faced outside with green schist and finished inside in mortar.
Kada Family Residence Shrine, an early Showa household shrine in Wakayama City, is a tiny copper-roofed nagare-zukuri hall of fine cypress on a stone platform.
Kada Family Residence Roji Gate, an early Showa tea garden gate in Wakayama City, has a cedar-bark roof held by bamboo battens and woven bamboo screen doors.
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