Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kumamoto

A missionary's house of 1927 at the centre of the Jiaien welfare campus in Kumamoto, with a double pentagonal gable and a large south dormer. Listed in 2007.

A temple main hall of 1926 in Yunomae, Kumamoto, Western throughout: mansard roof, pointed-arch windows, trussed roof. Said to be the head priest's son's design.

The front entrance of the Ueda Family Residence in Amakusa, a Meiji structure whose formal shikidai genkan links the older main house to the later detached sitting room.

Rebuilt in 1815 after a fire, the main house of the Ueda Family Residence in Amakusa is the commanding home of the Takahama headmen who founded the local porcelain kiln.

The main gate of the Ueda Family Residence in Amakusa, a Meiji four-legged gate with a tiled roof and wicket door, at the front of an estate built on Takahama porcelain.

The detached sitting room of the Ueda Family Residence in Amakusa, a refined Meiji guest wing where the poets Yosano Tekkan and Akiko are said to have stayed in 1932.

Built in 1920 as the record store of the Misumi court, this 45-square-metre brick building above Misumi West Port joined Japan's cultural property register in 2007.

This single-storey timber wing of 1920 held the waiting rooms of the Misumi court, linked to the courtroom block by a covered passage, and was registered in 2007.

The 1920 main building of the former Misumi Summary Court stands on a hill above the UNESCO-listed Misumi West Port. A rare surviving example of a regional courthouse built in pure Japanese style by the Ministry of Justice's works section, it is now open free to the public as the House of Law.

Late Edo farmhouse of a rural samurai family at Onoue in Ozu, Kumamoto, with two wings joined by a linking room; not the Eto residence designated at Jinnai.

Village stage of 1953 at Okawa Aso Shrine in Yamato, Kumamoto, with a chanter's platform and a fully open front spanned by one beam, in the home of Seiwa Bunraku.

A 3-meter-square Kannon hall of 1957 in a Yamaga merchant garden, with a pyramid tile roof, railed veranda, folding panel doors, degumi brackets and a kaerumata.

A 20-meter timber wall of about 1940 running west from the Omori main house on Yamaga's old Kikuchi road, plastered on the street side, with carved brackets inside.

An earthen-walled storehouse in the corner of the Omori compound in Yamaga, known as the miso store: two Meiji ranges joined in an L, sloping beams and relief posts.

An 1872 merchant house on Yamaga's old Kikuchi road: a plastered town-house wing with a tortoiseshell namako base, a Taisho Western dining room, a hipped west wing.

A 10-meter timber wall of about 1940 on the west side of the Omori compound in Yamaga, turning at its south end for a side gate, with stone buttresses inside.

A Meiji-period stone beam bridge at Mori in Ozu, Kumamoto, 2.6 metres long and 2.5 wide, carrying the approach to the Okamoto front gate over an irrigation channel.

Built about 1840 at Mori in Ozu, Kumamoto, this 34-square-metre timber stable turns its boarded flank to the south lane, part of a street wall registered in 1999.

The Okamoto Family Residence Rear Gate in Ozu, Kumamoto, is a small late Edo yakuimon whose fence matches the boarding of the storehouse and stable beside it.

The Okamoto Family Residence Front Gate in Ozu, Kumamoto, is a late Edo yakuimon with roofed wing walls, set back from the road to give it a samurai bearing.

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