Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Suhara Kakubei Yashiki Shuoku in Yuasa, Wakayama, ridge-tablet dated to 1797 and registered in 2004, housed merchants whose fishing grounds reached Sakhalin.

The Suhara Kakubei storehouse in Yuasa, Wakayama, is a late-Edo two-storey dozo of 40 square metres, white-plastered with an iron skirt, registered in 2004.

This 42-metre earthen wall edges the Suhara Kakubei Residence in Yuasa, Wakayama, marking where a vanished front gate stood in a late-Edo merchant compound.

A 1920s bracket-armed gate and 20-meter plastered wall at a Gobo, Wakayama estate: finely paired rafters, a transom of odd natural timber and straight-edged tiles.

A small 1920s service building in Gobo, Wakayama: a tiled bath with a goemon-buro iron tub, a maid's room and a pickle store under one roof, facing the north street.

The oldest building of a Gobo, Wakayama estate: an 1842 earthen-walled rice store that held tenant rice for a family of regional headmen, moved intact in the 1920s.

A single-storey guest wing in Gobo, Wakayama, with its own entrance and kitchen, cypress rooms of 12.5 and 10 mats, a fan-carved transom and a tea room of 1959-60.

A 1920s two-storey house in Gobo, Wakayama, designed by an Osaka firm: a double-height earthen passage, an intact kitchen, and a parquet Western room upstairs.

A 1920s earthen storehouse at the corner of a Gobo, Wakayama estate, with moulded window brackets, a lean-to over its door and roof timbers planed even in the attic.

The smallest of seven registered buildings at a Gobo, Wakayama estate: a 13-square-meter earthen storehouse with full tiling, a plaster eaves band and raking beams.

A gently curving 20-metre cut-stone wall of the early Showa years, laid in 4 courses with plum-crest motifs, edging a shrine family's homestead in Wakayama.

A 1937 gate, 3 bays and 4.0 m wide, roofed in cedar bark, framing the front of a shrine family's homestead in rural Wakayama. Registered 2013; seen from the lane.

A small Taisho-era yakuimon gate with earthen side walls, used only when the village shrine next door holds its festival: a link between house and shrine.

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.