Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Chiba

The 1872 sanctuary of a Noda soy brewer's household shrine: a karahafu roof and eaves crowded with Tatekawa-school carving. Open to view on the 10th monthly.

The heart of a Noda soy brewer's estate: a mid-Meiji single-storey house with black-plastered walls and three linked wings, registered in 2018. A private home.

A 1905 reception wing on a Noda soy brewer's estate, with three rooms, openwork transoms and a chandelier, enclosed by 4.4-metre walls. Registered 2018; not open.

Earthen walls of about 1905 guarding a Noda soy brewer's reception wing: 4.4 metres high, mortar-rendered with buttresses outside, plastered inside. Registered 2018.

A late-Meiji garden fence on a Noda soy brewer's estate, 33 metres long, boarded outside and plastered inside, with a ridge gate carved in openwork. Not open.

A c.1912 storehouse at the Mogi Shichiroemon soy-sauce brewers' estate in Noda, Chiba, set behind the main storehouse, with namako tile and white plaster walls.

One of the oldest buildings on a Noda soy brewer's estate: a late-Edo two-storey storehouse with gravel packed inside its walls against fire and theft. Not open.

A late Edo storehouse at the Mogi Shichiroemon soy-sauce brewers' estate in Noda, Chiba, still bearing scorch marks thought to date from the great Noda fire of 1821.

A brick wall of about 1892 linking two storehouses on a Noda soy brewer's estate: Flemish bond, over 4.2 metres high, with buttresses and a tiled cornice. Not open.

A 1926 board fence running 96 metres around the north and east of a Noda soy brewer's estate, coated in persimmon tannin under a pantiled coping. Seen from the road.

The household shrine of Noda's Mogi Shichizaemon soy brewers: an earthen sanctuary of 1808 with plaster foxes on its facade, oldest of 13 registered structures.

A tiny purification pavilion of 1808 beside a Noda soy brewer's household shrine, carved with Chinese lions, sacred foxes and a fox wedding procession. Private.

A two-storey earthen storehouse of 1926 on a Noda soy brewer's estate: 7.7 by 6.8 metres, plaster walls with raised pilasters and a truss roof. Private grounds.

A two-storey rice store of 1926, 11 by 5.5 metres, with an iron-lined full-height room, forming the front of a Noda soy brewer's estate with its Main Gate. Private.

An early Taisho timber shed, 25 metres long, on the estate of Noda's Mogi Shichizaemon soy brewers; its name recalls the fermenting stage of soy sauce. Private.

A slim 1926 pickle store, 13 by 3.3 metres, with an open-fronted lean-to and three cedar-lined rooms, where the board fence of a Noda soy brewer's estate begins.

A small gatekeeper's lodge of 1926 inside the gate of a Noda soy brewer's estate: a hipped roof, iron-sheet eaves, a six-mat room and an earthen entrance. Private.

The 1926 main house of Noda's Mogi Shichizaemon soy brewers: an entrance wing with guest and family wings, a carriage porch and bay-windowed parlour. Private home.

The 1926 front gate of a Noda soy brewer's estate: a single-bay yakuimon 2.7 metres wide with wing walls and a wicket door, visible from the road to the north.

A 1926 garden gate and fence dividing drive from garden at a Noda soy brewer's house: horsetail bamboo facing, shingle coping and a polished-log gate. Private.