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Nishie Family Residence Gate in Takahashi, Okayama: an early Meiji turret gate with shachi on the ridge and a fine lattice window on its outer face. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Gate Reception Rooms, Takahashi, Okayama: early Meiji rooms raised on a cliff wall, with railed windows and namako tiles. Registered 2003.
The 1896 stone entrance to the Taikado estate in Kurashiki, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Main Gate raises two granite monoliths 3.6 metres high with timber doors.
About 2 metres high and set east of the great hall, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Bust Pedestal is a granite structure carrying a bust of Nozaki Bukichiro.
Built in 1896 and covering 49 square metres, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Residence bends in an L from the kitchen to the gate and housed the estate staff.
Built in 1896 opposite the pantry, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Storehouse is a 186-square-metre kura with namako tiled walls and a 10-mat room on its ground floor.
Built in 1896 by the front garden in Kurashiki, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Rickshaw Shed is an 11-square-metre garage, open on the west, that held four rickshaws.
Attached to the rickshaw shed in 1896, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Rickshaw Pullers Room is a 12-square-metre waiting hut whose eaves carry fanned rafters.
Built in 1896 and covering 856 square metres, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Main House opens from a formal entrance into a hall of one hundred tatami mats.
Built in 1908 in the east of the garden, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Seiten is a reed-thatched teahouse of three mats and a daime mat, reached from the east gate.
A gate of 1896 set into a bamboo fence in Kurashiki, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Middle Gate is 1.7 metres wide and roofed in cypress bark with a tiled ridge.
Raised in 1896 along the Oda River in Kurashiki, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado East Wall runs 76 metres on a granite footing and is pierced by a tiled yakuimon gate.
Built in 1908 for Nozaki Bukichiro's sixtieth birthday, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Yuyotei is a reed-thatched guest wing reached by an adzed chestnut veranda.
Built in 1908 south of Yuyotei, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Yuyotei Bathhouse is an 11-square-metre bath wing with bamboo-packed lower walls and banded grey plaster.
An 18 m granite obelisk raised in Kojima in 1894 for salt pioneer Nozaki Buzaemon. Its 12 m shaft is a single stone; see why it was registered and how to visit.
A low 128 m granite wall of 1894 enclosing the Nozaki obelisk garden in Kojima, with tortoise-shell masonry at the corners. How to read its stonework and visit.
An 1894 granite girder bridge, 4.4 m long, before the Nozaki obelisk in Kojima. Its drum-bridge curve is kept low to open the view to the tower. Where to view it.
A pair of 4.7 m granite gateposts from 1894 at the Nozaki obelisk garden in Kojima, with leaf cornices, coping stones and finials echoing the tower. How to visit.
Storehouse of about 1907 at the Baiso villa in Kojima, Kurashiki: 2 by 1.5 bays, in black plaster with namako-tile corners and base and a tiled eave band.
Service wing of about 1907 at the Baiso villa in Kojima, Kurashiki: maids' room, kitchen and well house, finished in black plaster, namako tile and grey plaster.