Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A thatched farmhouse of about 1850 in the Wakayama hills, with a staggered four-room plan and a large shrine-family altar. Registered 2013; view from outside.

A two-storey Meiji-era storehouse with a floating tiled roof, white plaster walls and a timber-clad base on a shrine family's homestead in Wakayama. Registered 2013.

A Taisho-era reception wing beside a thatched farmhouse in the Wakayama hills; its main room has an alcove, staggered shelves and a writing bay. Registered 2013.

A 1937 roofed wall, 22 metres in all, of black plaster with crisp white edging above vertical boarding, flanking the gate of a shrine family's homestead in Wakayama.

A single-storey late Edo townhouse facing Shinmachi-dori in Gobo, with a projecting lattice west of the door and Western clapboard to the east. Registered in 2024.

A long late Edo wall enclosing the east side of the Sono estate in Gobo: an L-shaped range with a pickling room and open work area inside. Registered in 2024.

A two-storey late Edo storehouse on the north side of the Sono estate in Gobo, used for serving trays and paired with the east storehouse. Registered in 2024.

A small two-storey late Edo storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo, Wakayama, built for hina dolls, with lime-plastered walls and a boarded base. Registered in 2024.

A two-storey timber annex of about 1953 on the Sono estate in Gobo, with pantiled roof and board walls; its upstairs window looks to the river. Registered in 2024.

The largest storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo: a late Edo two-storey store for household goods, plastered to the eaves, with a tiled lean-to. Registered 2024.

A two-storey Taisho-era storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo, used for dishes, with a gable-end entrance and a mortar base unlike the Edo stores. Registered 2024.

The Taiji fisheries cooperative office near Taiji harbour, Wakayama, a timber building of 1918, has an unusual exterior with its woodwork painted pale pink.

Rebuilt in 1953, the Entrance Building of the former Tajima lacquer refinery in Kainan pairs a washed-mortar base and yellow render with an exposed steel truss.

Built in 1922 to hold finished lacquer, this mortar-rendered brick storehouse in Kainan has corner piers and a top band, and lost its upper floor in a 1953 refit.

This early Showa wooden wing at the former Tajima lacquer works in Kainan holds 2 dining rooms, a kitchen and a bath beside an earthen passage to the workshop.

Built in 1934, this 2-story clay-walled kura in Kainan kept costly raw lacquer safe from summer spoilage, with high iron-shuttered windows and a king post truss.

Raised in 1927, this brick hall in Kainan is where refined lacquer was packed into barrels; in 1958 its termite-hit sawtooth roof became riveted steel trusses.

Set in Kitayama, Japan's only municipal exclave, the 1847 main hall of Tōkō-ji combines a hōjō sanctuary and kuri wing under plank-clad gables called gangi.

On Okinoshima above the Kitan Strait, an 1872 stone lighthouse by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton. One of Japan's earliest Western-style beacons, still in service.

The 1887 main house of the Nakasuji branch family in Wasa, Wakayama: a 205 sq m single-storey home prized for deep beams and a cherry-wood veranda. Registered 1998.

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