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A large farmhouse of about 1875 in Tanto, Toyooka: a thatched hip-and-gable roof under slate, earthen floor to the west, formal rooms to the east. Registered 2011.
An 1884 storehouse for the household's own rice on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka, with a waterwheel set under its east canopy. Registered in 2011; not open.
An 1879 two-storey storehouse on the east edge of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka, its southern ridge a step lower; the oldest storehouse there. Registered 2011.
An 1886 storehouse for unhulled rice on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka, with an L-shaped two-storey forebuilding under one sweeping roof. Registered in 2011.
The only Meiji building among the nine, this two-storey annex north-west of the main house holds a small room, bath and privy, and links to the house by a corridor.
The back gate of the Ogawa Family Residence, a small udegimon at the southwest of the grounds. Barely 1.3 meters across, it carries about 13.8 meters of attached wall.
The front gate of the Ogawa Family Residence, a late-Meiji villa in Miki. At the center of the north frontage, it opens onto a garden path up to the main house.
The main house of the Ogawa Family Residence, a late-Meiji villa in Miki with a formal porch and a raised guest chamber, built with fine timber and Kunikane joinery.
The plain maid's quarters of the Ogawa Family Residence, between the main house and storeroom. With a bath and privy, it is a rare late-Meiji record of staff space.
The outer wall enclosing the Ogawa Family Residence, broken on the north by the front gate. It defines the long north-south lot and screens the garden from the street.
The storehouse of the Ogawa Family Residence, a thick-walled dozo near the inner courtyard, built to guard household goods from fire and damp among the courtyard buildings.
The storeroom of the Ogawa Family Residence, on the west boundary beside the maid's quarters, part of the row of service buildings that kept this late-Meiji villa running.
Onoe Shrine Worship Hall in Kakogawa is an early Meiji tiled hall, registered in 2007, with a dormer gable, a bow-shaped eaves gable and shachi and onigawara tiles.
A caretaker's room of c. 1897 by the front gate of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: an irregular five-mat room under a boat-hull ceiling, with a toilet.
A darkroom of about 1897 on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: 3.5 m², painted black inside for developing, with menkawa posts and clay walls outside.
Late Meiji rice storehouse on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: a 12 m kura, half converted into an office in 1950, facing the north parlor across a forecourt.
Mid-Meiji timber storehouse on the south edge of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: 170 m², trapezoidal and board-clad, recalling the salt fields that lay beyond.
A 1906 tea room beside the Kajiwara main house in Oshio, Himeji: a four-and-a-half-mat space with a daime alcove, a kininguchi, a nijiriguchi and a round window.
Mid-Meiji barn on the west side of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji, moved c. 1956, with an open lean-to on the east and clay walls left at the second coat.
An 1899 earthen storehouse behind a merchant house in Aboshi, Himeji: 26 m² on two floors with white plaster, plastered eaves and namako tile walls. Registered 2009.