Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1915 screen wall standing inside the front gate of the Omori homestead on Kohama Island: 6 meters of dry-laid cut coral limestone topped with a roof-shaped ridge.

A 1924 Okinawan farmhouse moved into the Okinawa Zoo & Museum: hipped tile roof, deep amahaji veranda and three front rooms in classic order. Visiting tips inside.

A 1924 stone hinpun screen wall at Furusatoen, Okinawa Zoo & Museum: four courses of large awaishi blocks, 1.7 m high yet only 20 cm thick. Its role and visiting.

A 1924 stone pigsty-and-toilet of the Hirata family at Furusatoen, Okinawa Zoo & Museum: arched limestone pens, a manure pit and a toilet laid out in one enclosure.

The front gate of the Okinawa Hotel in Naha, built in 1961 in concrete, carries a gabled roof of red Ryukyu tiles in Okinawan style at the hotel entrance.

The tiled stone wall of the Okinawa Hotel in Naha, built in 1961, runs 92 metres around the grounds in Ryukyu limestone under red tiles, framing the hotel front.

The guest wing of the Okinawa Hotel in Naha, built in 1961 for a hotel running since before the war, has sunshades and walls of decorative hollow blocks.

The brick building of the Okinawa Hotel in Naha, built around 1949 with a concrete ground floor and brick above, is a rare survivor of early postwar hotels.

Moved from Izena Island, this late-Meiji house keeps the rare separated-building (bunmunē) form, its kitchen a wing of its own. Now an indigo studio.

One of Okinawa World's largest relocated houses, this late-Meiji home survived the 1945 battle, shell scars on its pillars. Now a bingata workshop.

Built at Shuri from timber of a demolished Naha mansion, this late-Meiji house has an unusual plan with no back rooms. Now a papermaking studio.

A fūru is an old Okinawan privy-and-pigsty. Built of cut Ryukyu limestone, this rare survivor records a rural custom that local hygiene law ended around 1917.

A coral-limestone wall built in 1909 rings the Kamiyama Residence on Kuroshima, running 87.4 meters of dry-laid stone shaped with care at its gate and corners.

A dug well from 1909 at the southwest corner of the Kamiyama Residence on Kuroshima runs about 4.2 meters deep, with a curb cut from local coral limestone.

Built in 1912 on Kuroshima, the Kamiyama Residence main house is a low, red-tiled timber farmhouse with an eight-mat principal room, a Tangible Cultural Property.

On Kuroshima, this 1938 concrete tank at the Kamiyama Residence held rain caught from the main house roof by bamboo gutters, an answer to scarce island water.

Built in 1902 and moved to a Nago high school campus in 1965, this 9.4 sq m porch with a curved karahafu gable and Ryukyuan red tiles is a rare Meiji survivor.

A 1930 Okinawan house of 125 sq m under red Ryukyuan tiles, moved into Ryukyu Mura in 2011. Its three-room plan carries a modern porch canopy and glazed doors.

On a coral atoll 360 km east of Okinawa, this coursed-limestone office once ran the Tōyō Sugar Company's phosphate mine. Registered in 2005, it is now a museum.

In the port area of Kitadaitō Island stand the remains of a communal bath used by phosphate miners and residents. Two concrete tubs survive. Registered in 2007.

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