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The back gate of the Ogawa Family Residence, a small udegimon at the southwest of the grounds. Barely 1.3 meters across, it carries about 13.8 meters of attached wall.
The front gate of the Ogawa Family Residence, a late-Meiji villa in Miki. At the center of the north frontage, it opens onto a garden path up to the main house.
The main house of the Ogawa Family Residence, a late-Meiji villa in Miki with a formal porch and a raised guest chamber, built with fine timber and Kunikane joinery.
The plain maid's quarters of the Ogawa Family Residence, between the main house and storeroom. With a bath and privy, it is a rare late-Meiji record of staff space.
The outer wall enclosing the Ogawa Family Residence, broken on the north by the front gate. It defines the long north-south lot and screens the garden from the street.
The storehouse of the Ogawa Family Residence, a thick-walled dozo near the inner courtyard, built to guard household goods from fire and damp among the courtyard buildings.
The storeroom of the Ogawa Family Residence, on the west boundary beside the maid's quarters, part of the row of service buildings that kept this late-Meiji villa running.
Onoe Shrine Worship Hall in Kakogawa is an early Meiji tiled hall, registered in 2007, with a dormer gable, a bow-shaped eaves gable and shachi and onigawara tiles.
A caretaker's room of c. 1897 by the front gate of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: an irregular five-mat room under a boat-hull ceiling, with a toilet.
A darkroom of about 1897 on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: 3.5 m², painted black inside for developing, with menkawa posts and clay walls outside.
Late Meiji rice storehouse on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: a 12 m kura, half converted into an office in 1950, facing the north parlor across a forecourt.
Mid-Meiji timber storehouse on the south edge of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji: 170 m², trapezoidal and board-clad, recalling the salt fields that lay beyond.
A 1906 tea room beside the Kajiwara main house in Oshio, Himeji: a four-and-a-half-mat space with a daime alcove, a kininguchi, a nijiriguchi and a round window.
Mid-Meiji barn on the west side of the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji, moved c. 1956, with an open lean-to on the east and clay walls left at the second coat.
An 1899 earthen storehouse behind a merchant house in Aboshi, Himeji: 26 m² on two floors with white plaster, plastered eaves and namako tile walls. Registered 2009.
A Meiji-period household shrine of 0.31 m² in a merchant compound in Aboshi, Himeji: copper roof, granite base, round posts inside and square posts in front.
An 1892 guest wing of a merchant house in Aboshi, Himeji: two tatami rooms with an alcove, a writing bay and a transom carved with rabbits on waves. Registered 2009.
Kitano Monogatarikan in Kobe, the former Shea House of 1907, is a small clapboarded Western house with an oriel window, moved here after the Hanshin earthquake.
The former Kaizaki Clinic in Ikuno, Asago, Hyogo, built around 1887, is a small Western-style clinic on the old highway with shutters and a heavy timber cornice.
Where the Yoshikawa plot meets the road in Ikuno, Asago City, this 19-square-metre earthen storehouse of 1872 holds one tall room under a separate roof. Free entry.