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Otoshi Family's Grain Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family's Grain Storehouse

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.

Otoshi Family Residence Rice Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family Residence Rice Storehouse

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.

Otoshi Family Residence Main Building
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family Residence Main Building

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.

Otoshi Family Tea Room
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family Tea Room

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.

Otoshi Family Residence Row House and Row House Gate
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family Residence Row House and Row House Gate

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.

West Furniture Storehouse of the Otoshi Family Residence
Hyogo 江戸
West Furniture Storehouse of the Otoshi Family Residence

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.

Otoshi Family Residence East Furniture Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family Residence East Furniture Storehouse

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
Hyogo 江戸
Onoe Shrine Zuishin Gate

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
Hyogo 江戸
Onoe Shrine Main Hall

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.

Kajiwara Family Residence Inner Great Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Kajiwara Family Residence Inner Great Storehouse

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.

Kajiwara Family Residence Inner Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Kajiwara Family Residence Inner Storehouse

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.

Kajiwara Family Residence Main House
Hyogo 江戸
Kajiwara Family Residence Main House

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.

Kajiwara Family Residence Corner Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Kajiwara Family Residence Corner Storehouse

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.

Kajiwara Family Residence Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Kajiwara Family Residence Storehouse

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.

Kato Family Residence Main House
Hyogo 江戸
Kato Family Residence Main House

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.

Kato Family Residence Nagayamon Gate
Hyogo 江戸
Kato Family Residence Nagayamon Gate

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.

Kato Family Residence West Wall
Hyogo 江戸
Kato Family Residence West Wall

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.

Kato Family Residence Hamazashiki (Riverside Parlor)
Hyogo 江戸
Kato Family Residence Hamazashiki (Riverside Parlor)

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.

Kato Family Residence Bathhouse and Setchin (Privy)
Hyogo 江戸
Kato Family Residence Bathhouse and Setchin (Privy)

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.

Former Yoshikawa Residence (Izutsuya) Uchigura
Hyogo 江戸
Former Yoshikawa Residence (Izutsuya) Uchigura

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.