Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The main house of the former Hashimoto honjin in Wakayama, built before 1731 and registered in 1998, the oldest townhouse of known date in the prefecture.

A late Edo storehouse of the former Hashimoto honjin in Wakayama, registered in 1998, whose white wall faces the old Yamato highway beside the main house and gate.

The guest wing of the former Hashimoto honjin in Wakayama, built around 1803 and registered in 1998, where Tokugawa Shigenori and other lords of Kii stayed.

A reinforced-concrete gate on the estate's southern edge, west of the bath building, where two piers carry a segmental arch and keystone in pared-down Western style.

The estate's main entrance, a nagaya-mon of 1925, sets a room in its north bays against a tiled passage in the south, fronted by a long approach with a stone lion.

A two-story earthen storehouse in the northwest corner, pairing plastered walls with a Western king-post truss and lane-side boarding. Now used as a dining room.

A brick, two-story water tower north of the main house, with sash windows, a cornice and white tile banding, its modern utility shown openly among timber buildings.

Built in 1920 by speculator Matsui Isuke, this timber main house links three blocks around its garden, known for a Yakusugi-cedar ceiling. Now a restaurant.

A 91-meter earthen wall folding along the estate's south and west faces, tinted reddish with bengara over a sandstone skirt and a local blue-stone foundation.

The smallest registered building here, a privy southeast of the tea house, its yellow plaster walls set with differently shaped windows under cypress-bark eaves.

A compact earthen storehouse south of the north store, dated 1919, the earliest registered here, with plastered walls and a truss roof beside its larger neighbor.

A brick bath building at the southeast of the grounds, with a reinforced-concrete flat roof, parapet, cornice and geometric facade. Modern style in a private corner.

A 1940 Japanese-style house in Wakayama City with a Western parlor by the door: Spanish-tile gable, paired arched windows, and tatami rooms facing the garden.

Built in 1939 at the back of the Kiwata estate in Wakayama City, a white-plastered two-storey storehouse with big iron doors, a Western cornice and shaped brackets.

Behind the Kiwata main house in Wakayama City, a c.1940 annex with a stepped tile roof, fanned rafters and a six-mat tea room of bark-on logs and bamboo battens.

The c.1940 street front of the Kiwata house in Wakayama City: a one-bay yakuimon gate with side gates, and a granite-based brick wall that curves in on both sides.

A mid-Meiji tsushi two-story house on the old Koya Kaido in Hashimoto, Wakayama, its black plaster walls sealed over the rafters and framed by two curved pilasters.

An early Meiji two-story storehouse on a Hashimoto estate in Wakayama, gabled with its entrance in the north end: a framed opening closed by one heavy sliding door.

The oldest Kusumoto building in Hashimoto, Wakayama: a 12.5-ken late Edo barn whose lane side is plastered and boarded while the inner wall leaves its posts bare.

An early Meiji guest wing behind the main house in Hashimoto, Wakayama, with three tatami rooms set in an L and a roof ending hip-and-gable, hipped and gabled.

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