Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The early Showa storehouse behind the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 25 square meters, ridge and eaves set level with the older storehouse beside it.
The Taisho storehouse at the rear of the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 33 square meters, namako tiling over lime plaster, eaves carried on a layered cornice.
The early Meiji service wing of the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 25 square meters of privies and utility space, registered as a building hard to reproduce.
A Taisho building at the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: a Western room with a thrown-mortar German wall joined to a tatami wing, 85 square meters in all.
The gate on the southern boundary of a merchant compound in Mabicho, Kurashiki. Only 1.9 m wide, it carries a heavy tiled roof on braced posts. Listed in 2025.
The main house of a merchant compound in Mabicho, Kurashiki. Two storeys, a shikidai entrance and a six-room plan with carved seasonal transoms. Listed in 2025.
A plastered storehouse of 51 m² on the eastern edge of a merchant compound in Mabicho, Kurashiki. It held working tools and contains a matted room. Listed in 2025.
A teahouse in a merchant compound in Mabicho, Kurashiki, converted to tea use in the late Taisho period, with a round window and a narrowed alcove. Listed in 2025.
A gate 1.3 m wide and 8.5 m of tiled wall inside a merchant compound in Mabicho, Kurashiki. Bending at right angles, they close the western side. Listed in 2025.
A small thatched teahouse of 22 m² in a merchant compound in Mabicho, Kurashiki. Its west corridor projects out past the boundary wall. Listed in 2025.
A storehouse of 69 m² joined to its neighbour at the eastern edge of a merchant compound in Mabicho, Kurashiki, with lattice plaster on its west face. Listed 2025.
Built in 1919 within the grounds of Kiyama Shrine in Maniwa City, Okayama, the Zenkaku Inari Shrine Worship Hall is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property designed by architect Egawa Saburohachi. This compact yet distinctive building blends traditional Japanese shrine carpentry with Western truss engineering, featuring clustered rafters, a coffered ceiling, and Western-style foundation stones.
Senda Family Residence Main House in Amaki, Kurashiki, is a late Edo merchant house registered in 2018 with an open shopfront, plastered upper floor and namako wall.
Originally built in 1910 as the Soja Police Station, this is the only surviving example of Meiji-era Western-style architecture in Soja City, Okayama. Notable for its octagonal tower entrance and clapboard exterior, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2006. Today the building serves as a local museum showcasing roughly 1,600 items related to traditional Bicchu industries such as patent medicines, Aso cast metalwork, and rush-grass tatami products.
A Taisho-era sake brewing hall 21.1 meters long in Mimasaka, Okayama, with a koji room upstairs, a pressing room at its south end and tall space for vats between.
Built around 1885 on the old Inaba Kaido post road in Mimasaka, this brewer's house pairs a shop room with nine rooms and a formal entrance. Registered in 2017.
Dated to 1885, this single-storey sake hall in Mimasaka, Okayama, stands wall to wall with the brewing storehouse, with a rice-steaming room built on its west side.
An earthen storehouse of around 1885 at the south edge of a working sake brewery in Mimasaka, Okayama, white plaster above a tile band, with boarded lower walls.
A small Taisho-era earthen storehouse beside the brewer's house in Furumachi, Mimasaka, its white plaster walls edged by namako-kabe tile bands up all four corners.
The Chishinkan Front Gate in Tsuyama is a 1937 timber udegimon, 2.8 m high, set slightly below the street behind a stone-bridge approach. Visible from the road.
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