Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kumamoto

The Tomishige Photo Studio in Kumamoto, a two-storey timber building of the early Meiji era by the river, keeps its studio lit by a slanted glazed roof.

The Nagasaki Jiro Bookstore of 1924 in the old merchant quarter of Kumamoto, a brick-clad building with arches upstairs, is one of the city's oldest bookshops.

This Lutheran church in central Kumamoto, built in 1950 as a late work of William Merrell Vories, has a pointed tower, hammer-beam trusses and pointed arches.

The stone torii of Bairin Tenmangu in Tamana, Kumamoto, dated 1659, has stout pillars about 73 centimetres thick and regional proportions, and anchors the scene.

The worship hall of Bairin Tenmangu in Tamana, Kumamoto, is a late Edo hall with a cusped porch, a strut carved with the plum crest and a railed veranda.

The main hall of Bairin Tenmangu in Tamana, Kumamoto, is a late Edo hip-and-gable hall with a three-bay porch and carving gathered high in its eaves and brackets.

The two-storey gate of Bairin Tenmangu in Tamana, Kumamoto, built in the late Edo period, stands on a high base, its lower ridge held up by carved strongmen.

A brick water tower at Kumamoto's Hamada Shoyu, built around 1950 and still pumping the well water used to make its soy sauce, rebuilt after the 2016 earthquake.

In Kojima, western Kumamoto, stands Hamada Soy Sauce's third storehouse, a 218-square-meter earthen warehouse of the mid-Meiji era, registered in 2007.

Hamada's early-Meiji soy sauce main house in Ojima, Kumamoto, founded 1818, keeps lattice windows and a namako-plaster base on a registered storehouse street.

In Kumamoto's Koshima port district, Hamada's late-Edo soy sauce shop wears a plastered, two-toned front with namako tilework, registered for the historic street.

About 8 square meters, the Hamada Shoyu Yokan is a 1930s former tobacco shop with Western detailing, set at a long-running soy sauce brewery in Kumamoto.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Mashiki, Kumamoto: the former home of a rural Higo-domain samurai, its single-storey roof part hip-and-gable, part hipped.

The Hayano Building in Kumamoto, a concrete office block of 1924 said to be the first built for rent in the city, shows early office design in its windows.

On the Tsuboi River by the stone Meiju Bridge stands the 1919 Dai-Ichi Bank Kumamoto Branch, the city's first concrete building, designed by Yoshitoki Nishimura.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kumamoto. Built by the Iseri family in 1832, this tall plastered townhouse anchors the old Miyahara post town.

At the western edge of a former sake brewer's estate in Hikawa, Kumamoto, a 14-meter plaster wall from the late Meiji period is braced inside by welded-tuff pillars.

In Hikawa, Kumamoto, the Iseri family brewed and banked. Their 1872 earthen rice storehouse, with three squared front posts, moved to the family estate in 2000.

A registered early-Meiji yakuimon gate at the former Iseri residence in Hikawa, Kumamoto, with a tortoiseshell namako wall and colored tiles set into its floor.

In Miyahara, Kumamoto, a 20-meter red brick wall in English bond edges the old Iseri merchant estate. Its even buttresses and capping cornice show late-Taisho craft.

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