Edo
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This grain store sits where the estate's south-east and south-west faces meet, sharing one roof with the adjoining carpenter's room. Its street face is board-clad.
A relatively large rice store in the south garden, its entrance flanked by namako lattice-plaster walls. A slightly offset ridge hints it may predate the 1835 main house.
Built in 1835 for the great headman of the lower Kakogawa, this 455-square-metre, hip-and-gable-roofed house heads a nine-building compound registered in 1999.
A small tea room off the veranda of the main house, pairing a three-mat tea space with a two-mat preparation area. A copper eave shades its south side. Registered 1999.
This range on the estate's south-east street edge sets a central gate between a storehouse-like block and service rooms; its plaster and boarded walls shape the street.
A small plaster store on the north-west wall by the detached wing. Gable-entered and just 17 square metres, it is the smallest of the nine, holding household utensils.
A closed plaster storehouse at the corner where the estate's north-east and north-west edges meet. Three by two bays, it held household utensils with the west store.
Onoe Shrine Zuishin Gate in Kakogawa is a late Edo eight-legged gate, registered in 2007. Its guardian statues face each other; the New Year sun rises in its center.
Onoe Shrine Main Hall in Kakogawa is a late Edo three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary, registered in 2007, with two-step brackets and stacked rainbow beams on its gable.
Late Edo storehouse on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji, extended in the Taisho era and renovated c. 1947: at 82 m² the largest kura there, with namako-kabe.
Late Edo storehouse on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji, with namako-kabe only on its courtyard sides and plasterwork on its window brackets; renovated c. 1947.
Main house of a salt-field landowner in Oshio, Himeji: an 1853 irimoya-roofed block with a six-room plan, plus a 1906 reception wing. 435 m², registered in 2009.
Late Edo storehouse in the northwest corner of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: the oldest of its 20 registered buildings, on a trapezoidal plan.
Storehouse of the Naka-Nishi-Kajiwara estate in Tenjin, Oshio, Himeji: built in 1842 per its ridge tag, moved in late Taisho, with two rooms and fine brackets.
An 1862 merchant house in Aboshi, Himeji: 23 m by 14 m under a stepped hip-and-gable roof whose ridge drops in two places, with a formal entrance. Registered 2009.
A 20 m gatehouse of 1864 fronting a merchant compound in Aboshi, Himeji, with a barred storehouse window, a projecting lattice and a guest entrance. Registered 2009.
A late Edo roofed wall in a merchant compound in Aboshi, Himeji, running 11 m north from the gate with a privy under one roof, plastered outside and open inside.
An 1851 two-storey parlor on the river side of a merchant compound in Aboshi, Himeji, extended in 1874, moved in 1958 and wrapped in varied eaves. Registered 2009.
A late Edo bath and privy behind the gate of a merchant compound in Aboshi, Himeji, with round and octagonal tea-room windows, a tiled fence and a torii-shaped gate.
Attached to the main house at Ikuno in Asago City, this 22-square-metre storehouse of 1843 keeps a nando below and a tatami room with an alcove above. Free entry.