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Raised on a dressed-stone podium in Mima, Tokushima, the 1911 Anrakuji Temple Bell Tower has curved leaning posts, a coffered ceiling and a shachi on its ridge.
The Otanigawa Dam of about 1889 in Mima, Tokushima, a curved stone dam said to be planned by de Rijke for the Yoshino River works, still works and serves as a park.
The Kamamura Family Residence North Well in Mima, Tokushima, is a mid-Meiji well behind the main house, with a curb of four blue-stone slabs and a 3.3-meter shaft.
The Kamamura Family Residence Storehouse in Mima, Tokushima, is an 1891 two-storey earthen storehouse split into rice store and storeroom, its walls left unwhitened.
The Kamamura Family Residence Barn in Mima, Tokushima, built around 1897, housed people and animals under one roof and stands on a stone wall above the paddies.
The Kamamura Family Residence East Well in Mima, Tokushima, is a mid-Meiji stone well 7 meters deep, with a blue-stone curb and a washing area framed by curbstones.
The Kamamura Family Residence Bathhouse in Mima, Tokushima, is a mid-Meiji hut of 5.1 square meters, roofed in heavy tile, with a bath and a privy inside.
The Kamamura Family Residence Toilet in Mima, Tokushima, is a mid-Meiji privy with two stalls and a urinal, doors on the north and a collection hatch on the south.
The gate of Ganshoji in Mima, Tokushima, an eight-pillared gate of the Meiji period, is of original design, with a bell-shaped central arch and plant-motif ornament.
The former Kawaguchi post office in Miyoshi, Tokushima, built in 1905, joins a painted Western-style office and a latticed Japanese house in a T beside the river.
Built in 1901 for a family of herbal doctors, this house held a dispensary at the front. It is the only one of 7 Kitamuro structures registered as a model of design.
The oldest Kitamuro structure, this 1878 storehouse kept raw herbal ingredients behind plaster sealed to the eaves, with an interior lined in iron sheet.
A mid-Meiji merchant house on the corner where the approach to Ryozen-ji, temple one of the Shikoku pilgrimage, meets the old Muya Kaido road in Naruto, Tokushima.
Built in 1896 on Ikeda's old tobacco street in Miyoshi City, this timber townhouse carries a projecting fire wall and sea-cucumber tiling. Registered 2016.
The oldest building at Hojuin, this 1903 earthen storehouse in Komatsushima measures 11 by 4.8 metres and anchors the northwest corner with the white west wall.
Built in 1904 in Komatsushima, Tokushima, this two-storey home has a round-tiled gable roof, pan-tiled eaves, a veranda-edged reception room and 12-mat room above.
The 1877 shop and main house of the Shimao family in Ikawa, Miyoshi, Tokushima, registered in 2017, a long townhouse facing the street.
A four-storey timber pavilion of about 1877 in Ikawa, Miyoshi, Tokushima, registered in 2017, with cusped windows and a top-floor games room.
A 1901 hall on the eastern side of the Tairyuji precinct in Anan, Tokushima, rebuilt after the fire of 1894. The daily fire rite is still performed here.
A 1903 two-storey gate partway up the stone steps at Tairyuji in Anan, Tokushima. It carries a temple bell above and has no doors below. Registered in 2013.