Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hiroshima

The late Edo rear gatehouse of the Miyake Family Residence in Kaita, Hiroshima, which once faced a riverbank and has a stable wing beside its off-center gateway.

A late Edo merchant house in Kaita, Hiroshima, with its gable to the old Saigoku Kaido, posts and beams modeled in its plastered upper floor, and a deep eave.

The smallest building at the Miyake Family Residence in Kaita, Hiroshima: a late Meiji storehouse whose front windows pair iron bars with thick plastered shutters.

A small late Meiji rice storehouse at the Miyake Family Residence in Kaita, Hiroshima, that held rent rice from tenant farmers, with two windows in its south gable.

A late Edo rice storehouse at the Miyake Family Residence in Kaita, Hiroshima, with a central door, flanking windows and board hoods set in its white walls.

Myokakuji's 1869 four-legged gate in Kisa, Miyoshi, has round main pillars, square posts, an unusual high tie beam and densely packed brackets. Registered in 2024.

Myokakuji's 1892 bell hall in Kisa, Miyoshi, is one bay square on a stone base, with inward-leaning round columns, frog-leg blocks and a bell under a board ceiling.

Built in 1928 for Jikoin in Ryogoku, Tokyo, and moved to Kisa in 2020, this seven-bay hall pairs a U-shaped earthen outer hall with a trussed roof. Registered 2024.

Myogenji Main Hall in Fukutomi, Higashihiroshima, built in 1938 by carpenter Nishitani Shoichi, has diagonal brackets, 4-bay beams and ranma by an Omi carver.

The Murakami Family Residence Stone Wall wraps a Fukuyama hilltop estate, rising 4.2 metres at one corner, with castle-style corners and traces of a Meiji-era fire.

The Murakami Family Residence Clothing Storehouse is a late Edo dozo in Fukuyama, clad in vertical boards with plastered eaves and even plastered interior walls.

The Murakami Family Residence Well House is a small late Edo shelter in Fukuyama over a well with a granite curb and stone-paved washing area, a rare survival.

The Murakami Family Residence Udegimon Gate is a late Meiji garden gate in Fukuyama, with bracket arms carrying its eaves, a grid transom and central sliding doors.

The Murakami Family Residence Rice Storehouse is a small late Edo dozo in Fukuyama whose pantiled lean-to wraps two sides and once served as a pickling shed.

The Murakami Family Residence Main House in Fukuyama is a late Meiji guest hall whose upper reception rooms, with a tokonoma and carved transoms, face the bay.

The Murakami Family Residence Nagayamon Gate is a 16-metre late Edo gatehouse in Fukuyama, with storage and living rooms either side of a 3.7-metre gateway.

The Murakami Family Residence Barn in Fukuyama links two storehouses and keeps an alcove and cupboards from its days as a terakoya, a small private school.

Early Showa timber lab behind Yamamoto Rock Machine's old office in Tojo, Hiroshima: arched windows, scraped-mortar walls, registered in 2024 as a model of design.

Early Showa office and home of Yamamoto Rock Machine on Shinmachi-suji in Tojo, Hiroshima: scraped-mortar front, bay and round windows, registered in 2024.

A 38-meter timber workshop of about 1937 at Yamamoto Rock Machine in Tojo, Hiroshima: queen post truss, ridge monitor, arched gable windows. Registered in 2016.

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