Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A single-bay yakuimon in Iwade, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Gate was rebuilt in 1950 from timber salvaged when the older gate burned. Now registered.

Built in 1876 above the Kishigawa at Okinono in Kainan, Wakayama, Honenji Main Hall is a five-bay Jodo-shu hall registered in 2024 for its dragon carvings.

Completed in 1927 at Hirai in Kozagawa, Wakayama, this H-plan timber building was drawn in Sapporo for Hokkaido University's only forest outside Hokkaido.

At Horikawaya Nomura in Gobo, Wakayama, this workshop presses soy sauce mash and heats it over a wood fire. Its brick chimney marks a brewery registered in 2014.

The First Brewing House at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo store where soy sauce mash matures. Koji mould clings even to the timber here. Registered in 2014.

The Second Brewing House at Horikawaya Nomura, from the early Taisho era, carries a Western king-post truss above rows of tall wooden vats. Registered in 2014.

The Shop and Main House at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo townhouse on Gobo's Shinmachi street, its timber stained red with bengara. It alone is open to visitors.

The storehouse at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo, two-storey dozo near the brewery's heart, its thick walls guarding tools from fire and damp. Registered in 2014.

The Matabei Residence Main House is a late-Edo townhouse in Gobo's temple town, its eaves bearing a local fascia, odare. It frames the lane behind the Betsuin.

The Matabei Residence Storehouse, built around 1930 north of the main house, stands on a granite foundation with a plank-and-plaster west face. Registered in 2014.

The thatched kuri of Horikoshi Shaku Kannon in Katsuragi Town, Wakayama, is a late-Edo building laid out like a farmhouse at a Katsuragi Shugen practice site.

A late Edo townhouse in Hashimoto, Wakayama, on the old Yamato Kaido. Plaster runs to the eaves, a low tsushi-nikai storey, an earthen naka-doma. Registered 2004.

A 1916 guest wing in Hashimoto, Wakayama, with a shikidai entrance and a formal shoin room. Moved whole by hikiya in 1955 when the road widened. Exterior views only.

A late Edo storehouse in Hashimoto, Wakayama, roofed in heavy hongawara tile and split inside between utensils, rice and clothing. Registered in 2004.

The main house of the Misaki family near Wakayama Castle, built 1935 to 1938, pairs a two-tier roofline and sukiya-style log interiors with a Western reception room.

The kitchen building of the Misaki family residence in Wakayama, built 1935 to 1938, is a plain hipped-roof wing set apart from the main house, samurai-house style.

The two-storey storehouse of the Misaki family near Wakayama Castle, built 1935 to 1938, turns its gable to the back street in an estate of samurai-house lineage.

The Kamigura and detached room of the Misoya Annex in Hashimoto, Wakayama, from the mid-Meiji period, join a storehouse with shop-mark doors to a tatami room.

The Shimogura of the Misoya Annex in Hashimoto, Wakayama, built in 1808, is a small store for miso or tools with careful plasterwork and rafters plastered in waves.

The main house of the Misoya Annex in Hashimoto, Wakayama, built in 1884 for a kimono shop on the Ise Kaido, has a curved roof and the look of a Kyoto townhouse.

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