Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hiroshima

The smallest of three Taisho-era warehouses at Sanyotsuru Shuzo in Saijo, Higashihiroshima. Registered 2016, it has no stairs: the top floor opens off its neighbour.

A Taisho-era storehouse at Sanyotsuru Shuzo in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, registered in 2016. Ten ken long, half of it open to the roof, trusses made of round logs.

This small early-Showa tea room off the annex covers just 10 square meters. Its two-mat space opens south and west to the garden, admitting light in a modern spirit.

This 1893 earthen storehouse pairs white plaster with a boarded base. Its projecting drip tiles, peaked at the gable ends, turn rain-shedding into crisp form.

Added in 1909, this reception wing opens to a pond garden. Its great room holds the finest carving on the site, including peonies with a lion cut from one Yakusugi board.

Built in 1891 by the Hozawa merchants, this is old Higashijo's largest town house, known for its layered yatsumune roof and black-plaster wall of flower windows.

This early-Showa gate and wall guard the site's east front. A single-bay armgate meets a 13-meter wall, both in fine zelkova, lending the boundary a quiet dignity.

Concrete bell tower of 1922 in Shiwa, Higashihiroshima, built to hang a bell sent by emigrants in America; 7.8 metres high, it still sounds the time by siren.

Built in 1930 as the Jōge Police Station, this timber building in Fuchū City reproduces the look of reinforced concrete, with a tower rising over its entrance porch.

Sukiya annex of 1936 by Hirata Masaya, moved from an Osaka villa to Ikenoura Park on Shimokamagari island in Kure, Hiroshima; noted for its veranda and tea room.

Shorinbo's 1934 Onari-no-ma in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is a three-room guest wing with an alcove-fitted principal room and its own bath and toilet. Registered in 2011.

Shorinbo's 1744 bell tower in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is an open one-bay belfry on a stone base with inward-leaning round posts and two-step brackets. Listed in 2011.

Shorinbo's 1934 guest hall in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, has a karahafu porch and a 17-and-a-half-mat audience room. Listed in 2011 as a model modern Shin audience hall.

Shorinbo's 1752 sutra storehouse in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is a 3.8-metre-square plastered store whose walls carry timber brackets and carvings. Registered in 2011.

Shorinbo's priests' quarters in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, built in 1801, is a 22-by-14-metre gable-entry kuri with an earthen entrance hall, registered in 2011 as a model.

Shorinbo's main gate in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, dates from 1665 and is the temple's oldest building: a copper-roofed four-legged gate with cusped eaves, listed in 2011.

Shorinbo's 1852 main hall in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is a 629-square-metre Shin Buddhist hall with a tiled hip-and-gable roof, registered in 2011 as a model of its type.

This late Edo corridor at Shorinbo in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, links hall and residence; a plaster wall with bell windows splits it into two lanes. Registered in 2011.

Built around 1902 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Rear Gate and Earthen Wall includes a 115-metre wall raised by villagers to welcome a new doctor.

The Takiguchi Family Residence Woodshed in Shobara, Hiroshima, is a Taisho-era shed with an open firewood bay, a pickling room and a silkworm loft upstairs.

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