Edo
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Former Tamaoki Family Residence Main House, Miki, Hyogo: a late Edo townhouse built as a domain banknote office, with a raised inner room; registered in 2002.
The Yagi family's household storehouse at Himeji, the only building on the site firmly dated to 1846, a two-story mud-walled store with a raised-beam roof.
Main house of the Yagi family, hereditary headmen on the Ibo River in Himeji, a large single-story farmhouse under a hip-and-gable roof, registered in 2021.
A two-story mud-walled storehouse in the Yagi compound at Himeji. Its west half is a shoin parlor for receiving domain officials, its east half a plain store.
The rice granary of the Yagi family, who held the annual tax rice at Himeji. This two-story mud-walled store sits by a former waterway for loading by boat.
The gatehouse of the Yagi compound at Himeji. Behind its formal tiled facade with a wicket door lay the estate's counting room to the west and a cattle shed.
Late Edo stone retaining walls, 109 metres long and up to 5 metres high, that level the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, their mixed masonry a record of repair.
An 1846 storehouse joined to the Kusaka main house in Awaga, Asago, 6.0 by 5.0 metres, with plaster, pebble render and stone in three bands and garden windows.
The 1839 back gate of the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, 3.0 metres long, with double doors, a wicket and three rows of brackets under eaves facing the street.
The late Edo front gate of the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago: a one-bay yakuimon in zelkova, 2.4 metres wide, framed by the stable and charcoal shed.
A late Edo counting house northwest of the Kusaka main house in Awaga, Asago: 2 storeys, 7.1 by 5.9 metres, with yellow clay walls and a plain lattice front.
An 1843 household shrine in the Kusaka garden in Awaga, Asago: a one-bay nagare shrine in cypress bark with layered gables, two tiers of brackets and a dragon.
An 1846 reception wing beside the Kusaka main house in Awaga, Asago: three eight-mat rooms facing the garden, a formal step, verandas and a sukiya canopy.
The 1799 main house of the Kusaka landowners in Awaga, Asago: 20 metres wide, nine rooms in three rows, and a bold roof frame open above the earth floor.
A late Edo kitchen wing on the Kusaka main house in Awaga, Asago, 10 by 7.5 metres, refitted in the Taisho era with a central work table and a tiled bath.
A late Edo earthen wall 88 metres long and up to 2.3 metres high round the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, on fieldstone footings with a tiled coping.
Late Edo storage sheds on the street edge of the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, open to the garden and walled in plaster on stone to the road, with a gate midway.
Kuroda Seiuemon Shoten Shop and Main House, Miki: a late Edo hardware shop with three-tier eaves and a giant saw as its sign, registered in 2019 and still trading.
The Niomon Gate of Gokurakuji at Yachiyo, Taka, Hyogo, built in 1728, is a two-storey gate with Daibutsu-style details and a vase-shaped strut under its ridge.
Saishō-ji Main Hall in Kamisakabe, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture is a 1722 Jōdo Shinshū Hongan-ji-ha temple hall registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in March 2024. With its seven-by-seven bay irimoya hip-and-gable roof in formal hongawara tile and archaic square pillars at every bay, it stands as a fine example of a mid-sized Pure Land main hall and the historic heart of the old Kamisakabe village community.