Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The late-Edo abbot's quarters of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: the largest building on the grounds at 486 square meters, with 4 tiers of beams in its gables.

A late-Edo white-plastered wall, 65 m long, around the forecourt of the abbot's quarters at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, changing height and coping along its length.

A 1793 clay-walled storehouse behind the priests' quarters of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, its namako tilework carried up the corners and under the windows.

An 1893 two-story storehouse in the Manabe home's northwest corner on Manabeshima, with namako tiling and tiles set flat or upright by position. Registered 2006.

An early Meiji wooden gate before the Manabe main house on Manabeshima: 3.2 m wide, very shallow, once missing its northeast post, with a colored-earth front wall.

Built in 1917 and used as Manabeshima's post office until 1962, this 2-storey timber building in Kasaoka shows a rare Western face: mortar walls and tall windows.

Dated by its ridge tag to 1870, this hip-and-gable island house on Manabeshima, Kasaoka, keeps an earth-floored doma to the east and a formal room facing the street.

Built in 1874 in the corner of an old island homestead on Manabeshima, Kasaoka, this plastered warehouse and barn held grain paid as tax and the household firewood.

Marumoto Family Residence Reception Wing, Okayama: a mid-Meiji guest room of 61 square metres amid brewery stores, its roof hip-and-gable at one end only.

Marumoto Family Residence Wall, Okayama: a 15-metre early Taisho garden wall of grey lime plaster, lattice windows and flat tile on a cut-stone footing.

Marumoto Sake Brewery Well and Stone Wall, Okayama: an early Taisho stone well under a tiled shelter, source of the Shimizuya name, and a 30-metre wall.

Marumoto Sake Brewery Kettle Room, Okayama: a rice-steaming house of about 1932, 104 square metres on a trapezoid plan, with a monitor roof to let the steam escape.

Marumoto Sake Brewery Shop, Okayama: a tall early Taisho two-storey shop of 63 square metres, with an earth-floored sales room below and a tatami room upstairs.

Marumoto Sake Brewery Shop Side Gate, Wall and Stone Steps, Okayama: an early Taisho gate, 12-metre wall and stone steps lifting the shop front above the river.

Marumoto Sake Brewery Connecting Corridor, Okayama: an early Showa open loading bay of 123 square metres, flared in plan and trussed, beside the West Storehouse.

Marumoto Sake Brewery West Storehouse, Okayama: an early Taisho fermentation store of 432 square metres, two plastered stores side by side under a deep cornice.

Marumoto Sake Brewery East Storage Shed, Okayama: a long early Taisho store 30 metres by 6 metres, framed in slender logs and trusses, its timber eaves unplastered.

Marumoto Sake Brewery East Storehouse, Okayama: a 1913 fermentation store of 747 square metres on higher ground, framed in round logs right down to the rafters.

Marumoto Sake Brewery South Storehouse, Okayama: an early Taisho rice store and mill of 313 square metres, a long dog-leg wall of small windows facing the fields.

Built in 1872 in Wake, Okayama, this attic-storey house shows an early local two-tier roof with namako-kabe plaster and log-carried eaves. Registered 1999; private.

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