Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hiroshima

The smallest of the Hida estate's registered buildings, this tiny Kannon hall stands over the family's own grave, a rare record of local island devotion.

Facing the main house across the courtyard, the Hida storehouse rises as one open two-story volume, built from the outset to hold the mikan crop that defined Ōcho.

This Taishō gate-storehouse fronts the eastern lane of the Hida estate, joining a central gateway to storage rooms, its road-side base in sasarako weatherboarding.

The Hida family's main house on Ōsakishimojima in Kure is the oldest of five registered buildings, a late-Edo tsushi-nikai farmhouse finished with a townhouse's care.

The newest of the Hida estate's five registered buildings, this 1924 detached wing is a refined sukiya-style retreat, its porch posts on carved lion-dog stone plinths.

The ceremonial gate of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima. A late-Edo copper-roofed gate 1.7 metres wide, it divided the guest-room garden from the forecourt.

The main gate and attendant's room of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima. The 3.6-metre gate is said to have come from a Yoshida domain jinya.

The rice storehouse of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, built around 1927. A two-storey plaster kura facing the river, it once adjoined a rice-milling shed.

The main house of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, rebuilt around 1779. Its timber frame pairs an early-modern farmhouse core with modern openness.

The sake storehouse of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, built in 1733. A 22-metre plaster kura with just two internal posts, it housed the family's brewing.

The barn of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, from the mid-Meiji era. Some 17 metres long, it held materials in its north half and a cowshed in its south.

The storehouse and detached room of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima. The kura of about 1702 is the oldest building here and survived a great fire in 1770.

The Western-style annexe of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, built in 1936, with offices below and a meeting room above. Paper roller blinds survive inside.

Concrete auditorium of 1927 in Hiroshima, built for the prewar Hiroshima High School in Romanesque Revival style; an A-bombed building still used by the school.

Dated to the late Edo period and registered in 2014, Fukusenbo Kuri in Hiroshima is the priest's residence, older than the 1948 hall it joins by a covered corridor.

Built in 1830 and registered in 2014, Fukusenbo Sanmon in Hiroshima is a single-bay yakuimon gate 2.4 metres wide, its ridge beam filled with carved cloud dragons.

Built in 1954 and registered in 2014, Fukusenbo Shoro in Hiroshima packs continuous bracketing and tail rafters onto a footprint of just 9.4 square metres.

Built in 1948 and registered in 2014, Fukusenbo Hondo in Hiroshima omits railing and columns from its outer sanctuary and carries carved dragons across seven bays.

Three earthen units joined into a 47-metre storehouse in Saijo, Hiroshima. Built in the Taisho era for a brewery founded by pooled investment; registered in 2016.

A 24-metre brick chimney in English bond, crowned with a moulded band, rising over the white storehouse walls of Saijo in Higashihiroshima. Registered in 2016.