Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Hashimoto rice office in Gobo is a small Western-style timber building on the old Kumano Kaido, where a landowning house counted its tenant rice. Registered 2020.

The Hashimoto new drawing room in Gobo is a small two-story timber reception house, said to have been built for a bride's arrival around 1912. Registered 2020.

The Hashimoto earthen wall in Gobo runs about twenty meters along the old Kumano Kaido, with a flared stone base and a washed-mortar face under pantile. Registered 2020.

Built around 1929 by a Kishu lacquerware dealer, this two-story house in black lime plaster stands in Kainan's Funao district near the Kuroe lacquer town. Registered 2019.

A 26-meter concrete wall and set-back gate in washed-out mortar enclose the garden of the 1929 Hatada residence in Kainan, a modern corner-lot estate. Registered 2019.

Hatsuzakura's later-Meiji igura adjoins its brewing hall, the two forming a long wall that preserves the streetscape of Katsuragi's once-thriving sake trade.

Hatsuzakura's early-Meiji shikomi-gura runs sixteen bays north to south, the oldest and largest of its halls and still the working heart of a brewing town.

Hatsuzakura's early-Taishō main house, in Katsuragi's last sake brewery, is a six-bay machiya whose upstairs rooms now host tastings of Kōyasan Hannyatō sake.

Dated to 1721 by its ridge tablet, the Hibuse Clinic main house in Hashimoto, Wakayama still fronts a working clinic and is a registered benchmark machiya.

Built in the late Taishō era, the Hibuse Clinic hospital wing in Hashimoto stands on a floor raised about 1.3 m against the Kinokawa floods, a clapboard town landmark.

Dated to 1856, the Hiramatsu main house in Kawabe, Wakayama is a village headman's farmhouse with a projecting formal entrance and a fine shoin reception room.

In Kawabe, Wakayama, the Hiramatsu long-house gate spans 18.7 m, with single-plank zelkova doors and barred windows under a tiled roof, built in the late Edo period.

In a mountain hamlet of Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Residence is fronted by a castle-like stone wall four metres high, with 154 m of ramparts in all.

In Iwade, Wakayama, the Fukuda Residence inner wall is black-plastered on the approach side and white on the garden side, an early Shōwa Registered Cultural Property.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Main Gate is a single-bay udegimon of about 1909, standing atop a castle-like stone wall. Now registered.

In Iwade, Wakayama, the mid-Meiji Fukuda Family Residence Earthen Wall runs about 41.5 m over precise stone footings with a washed-aggregate face. Now registered.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Barn of 1878 is the estate's oldest building, a part-two-story timber structure with lean-to eaves. Now registered.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence West Gate of about 1913 is a small udegimon, its transom carved with bamboo and chrysanthemum. Now registered.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Detached Room of 1903 is a six-mat guest room with a tokonoma, reached by a covered passage. Now registered.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Bath and Privy of 1912 is a rare surviving service block, with five privies south and a bath north. Now registered.

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