Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kochi

The Iwamura Residence gate and palanquin room in Aki, Kochi, is an early Meiji bracket-arm gate with an attached palanquin room, forming a dignified street front.

Folded-plate concrete shell museum of 1966 by Hayashi Masako on the Tatsukushi coast, Kochi; skylight bathes Kurohara Kazuo's shells in an underwater glow.

A 1938 storehouse in Nahari, Kochi, built by a farm cooperative and registered in 2000, with drip tiles on its gable and plastered eaves.

Reinforced-concrete bridge of 1935 over the Doi River in Niyodogawa, Kochi, 69 metres long on Flemish-bond brick piers, also used as a market square for the village.

Stone arch road bridge of 1919 near the Shimanto River in Kochi, built on bedrock for the Kochi-Uwajima road, with a near-semicircular arch and fine coursed masonry.

Timber Western-style clinic of about 1913 in Yasuda, Kochi, with clapboard walls and a gabled porch, now part of the Yasuda Townscape Exchange Hall Nagomi museum.

Small concrete arch of 1944 on the former Taisho forest railway at Koyagauchi, Shimanto, Kochi, with walls of locally quarried stone; now used as a town road.

Forest railway tunnel of 1944 at Koyagauchi, Shimanto, Kochi, cutting through a bend of the Yusuhara River; at 138 metres the longest on the line, now a town road.

Three-arch concrete bridge of 1944 on the former Taisho forest railway at Shimotsui, Shimanto, Kochi, 82 metres long and known locally as the Spectacles Bridge.

Concrete arch of 1944 on the former Taisho forest railway at Eshi, Shimanto, Kochi, beside a stone road bridge of about 1935; together they trace local transport.

A Taisho gate and wall on the south street of a Susaki merchant's house: a zelkova bracket gate 1.8 meters wide, a tortoiseshell stone footing and adze-cut bars.

A two-story Taisho storehouse in Susaki: a reinforced concrete shell, timber truss roof, iron doors and white Tosa plaster walls, with an iron safe inside.

A one-story Taisho home in Susaki where a merchant family lived and hosted guests, roofed with split right- and left-hand tiles over a hinoki log eave beam.

A two-story mid-Meiji shop on a Susaki corner, walled in black lime plaster, with eaves stepped out in three tiers and a coffered office. Registered in 2016.

An early Showa annex behind a Susaki merchant's house: a tiled hipped roof outside, king post trusses over a post-free kitchen and a straight-grained ceiling inside.

A Taisho wall of cement blocks laid eleven courses high under Japanese tiles, running 8.2 meters north from a Susaki merchant's shop, with a wicket door and a shed.

A late Meiji gate 2.4 metres wide on a village lane in Konan City, Kochi. Unusually thick timbers, a gently curved tile roof, and short walls to either side.

A late Meiji house of 206 square metres in Konan City, Kochi. Farmhouse rooms to the west, formal zashiki to the east, registered in 2024 as a model of design.

A two storey plastered storehouse of 52 square metres in Konan City, Kochi. Projecting tile courses throw off the rain and the roof uses left handed pantiles.

A late Meiji boundary running 20 metres in Konan City, Kochi. Built on large undressed stones and roofed with tile, it ties three gates into a single frontage.

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