Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kumamoto

The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Storehouse in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is an 1889 kura with namako tile walls, white lime plaster and tiled drip ledges.

The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Main House in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is an 1873 landowner's home dated by its ridge tablet, with rooms styled on samurai houses.

The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Middle Gate in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a small 1870 gate in a roofed bamboo fence that led from the compound to the fields.

The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Barn in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a long 1889 outbuilding, weatherboarded almost to the eaves on the side facing the road.

The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Miso Storehouse in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a small 1889 kura whose street front is weatherboarded level with its fences.

Former Yasuda Bank branch of 1925 in Yamaga, Kumamoto, with an Ionic-style historicist front, now a museum of Yamaga lanterns made only of washi paper and glue.

Built in 1880, the Yoshioka Amida hall is a tiny 3.8-square-metre worship space enshrining Amida Nyorai behind latticed doors. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Said to have been moved from Kumamoto city, the Yoshioka Edo storehouse is a small two-storey plastered dozo, one of six family structures registered in 2016.

Built around 1885 in Kutami, Yamaga, the Yoshioka main house anchored a sericulture estate. Its hip-and-gable roof and six-room plan center a compound registered in 2016.

Built around 1883, the Yoshioka fence runs 35 metres on a split-stone base, its bracing matching the gate along the street edge in Kutami. One of six registered in 2016.

Built around 1889, the Yoshioka Meiji storehouse doubled as a stable, with a cart passage and iron tethering fittings inside. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Built around 1883, the Yoshioka gate is a variant yakuimon about 2.3 metres wide, its braced doors matching the adjoining fence. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Registered in 2013, this 1888 house is the oldest building at Yoshino Ryokan in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto, and its four living rooms and Buddhist altar room still survive.

Registered in 2013, this early Taisho two-storey block at Yoshino Ryokan in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto, began as a bathhouse and keeps lath windows and coloured glass.

A long mid-Meiji house of the Yoshimura brewing family in Kawashiri, Kumamoto, with family rooms to the east and a northwest guest suite with carved transoms.

A white-plastered 1908 storehouse in the northwest corner of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto, linked to the main house by a corridor across the garden.

The oldest building of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: an 1869 black-plastered storehouse whose roof rests on two ridge-line posts and a jimune beam.

An early Showa wall on the west edge of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: concrete posts, mortared slag-brick panels and a cap of peaked tiles.

The mid-Meiji west gate and south wall of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: a copper-edged gate with lattice doors and a wall faced in boards and bark.

The mid-Meiji east gate and east wall of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: a small bracket-arm gate with lattice doors and a 13-meter board fence.

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