Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hiroshima

Raised in 1925 and opened in 1927, this playhouse in Fuchū keeps its revolving stage, under-stage pit and hanamichi walkway beneath a Western king post truss roof.

Timber school building of 1929 in Jinsekikogen, Hiroshima, with a north corridor and south classrooms; one of the few timber schools left in the prefecture.

A Taisho house in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, registered in 2012. Its 231 sq m plan has a cusped gable at the porch and a coved coffered ceiling in the main room.

A 31 sq m Taisho annexe in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, linked to the main house by a roofed corridor. A cusped window and lobed bamboo lattice show unusual care.

A late Meiji gate in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, 6.3 m wide with a 3 m plank-door opening and a wicket door. Registered in 2012, it predates the house it faces.

Early Showa well house at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, an open gabled shelter over a stone-curbed well that supplies the brewing water.

Early Showa brick chimney about 12 metres tall at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, in English bond with a corbelled top; a local landmark.

Early Meiji earthen brewing storehouse at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, laid out in a T with white plaster walls; the main brewing building.

Late Meiji earthen storage storehouse 39 metres long at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, with storage tanks inside; it shapes the brewery's look.

Late Taisho sukiya-style annex at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, with a formal eight-mat room, a veranda all round and polished-log beams.

Early Taisho timber building at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, part of a dwelling converted into a bottling house, with white plaster walls.

Early Meiji earthen store at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, converted from a household store into a packing house, with drip tiles on its gable.

Early Showa gate and wall at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima: a one-bay yakuimon flanked by tiled walls, 7.6 metres in all, forming the front.

Former bank office of 1921 in Kake, Akiota, Hiroshima: a single-storey timber building given pent roofs and plastered eaves to look like a two-storey town house.

East of the storehouses stands this square Taisho brick chimney, about 17.7 metres tall and laid in English bond, kept as a landmark on the Saijo sake street.

Built around 1953 beside the main house, this timber wing wraps a broad veranda toward a garden by Shigemori Mirei, its sukiya rooms planned as one with the view.

This Taisho earthen-walled block links the main house with the storehouses and now works as a store, its masonry recording the layout of the young Kamoizumi brewery.

Facing Saijo's sake street, Kamoizumi Shuzo's late-Meiji main house sets a merchant's earthen passage beside a formal ten-mat guest room behind a latticed front.

The brewery's smallest building, this 16-square-metre late-Meiji storehouse was moved whole by hikiya, its near-windowless walls edged with water-shedding tiles.

This large Taisho storehouse divides into East and Middle halves across a ground-floor passage, its white great-walls and red tile defining the Saijo brewery street.