Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Former stable and menservants' quarters of the Nishie Family Residence, Takahashi: a long early Meiji row of stalls and rooms closing the forecourt. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Grain Storehouse, Takahashi: a late Edo clifftop store for rice and barley, now the Nishie Family Museum. Registered 2003, open by booking.
Nishie Family Residence Main House in Takahashi, Okayama: a late Edo home remodelled c.1894, with a 27 m front, formal entrance, and namako walls. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Book Storehouse, Takahashi: a 23 m² early Meiji storehouse with stepped rain eaves and namako tiling beside the granary. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Tool Storehouse, Takahashi: a large early Meiji store with two doors and namako-tiled gables on the estate's west side. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Miso Storehouse, Takahashi: the smallest of nine, an early Meiji store with a bracket canopy and a butterfly crest. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Gate in Takahashi, Okayama: an early Meiji turret gate with shachi on the ridge and a fine lattice window on its outer face. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Gate Reception Rooms, Takahashi, Okayama: early Meiji rooms raised on a cliff wall, with railed windows and namako tiles. Registered 2003.
Designed by Nishimura Isaku in 1923, this Kurashiki church sets its sanctuary above a granite-faced base, reached by a long ramp up to a terrace. Registered 2009.
Notre Dame Hall East Building in Okayama, a 1929 Antonin Raymond design built as a convent, holds the university chapel behind a grid of colored glass windows.
Notre Dame Hall Main Building in Okayama is a 1929 Antonin Raymond school with unbroken eaves, original pivot windows and wartime paint traces, registered 2007.
The 1896 stone entrance to the Taikado estate in Kurashiki, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Main Gate raises two granite monoliths 3.6 metres high with timber doors.
About 2 metres high and set east of the great hall, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Bust Pedestal is a granite structure carrying a bust of Nozaki Bukichiro.
Built in 1896 and covering 49 square metres, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Residence bends in an L from the kitchen to the gate and housed the estate staff.
Built in 1896 opposite the pantry, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Storehouse is a 186-square-metre kura with namako tiled walls and a 10-mat room on its ground floor.
Built in 1896 by the front garden in Kurashiki, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Rickshaw Shed is an 11-square-metre garage, open on the west, that held four rickshaws.
Attached to the rickshaw shed in 1896, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Rickshaw Pullers Room is a 12-square-metre waiting hut whose eaves carry fanned rafters.
Built in 1896 and covering 856 square metres, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Main House opens from a formal entrance into a hall of one hundred tatami mats.
Built in 1908 in the east of the garden, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Seiten is a reed-thatched teahouse of three mats and a daime mat, reached from the east gate.
A gate of 1896 set into a bamboo fence in Kurashiki, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Middle Gate is 1.7 metres wide and roofed in cypress bark with a tiled ridge.
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