Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Wakayama

A small late-Edo storehouse behind the Mukai main house in Kada, Wakayama: white lime plaster, plastered purlin ends and oversized brackets under the door canopy.

An early-Showa concrete wall, 8.2 meters long, on the old Awashima road in Kada, Wakayama, with black sumi, a white band and boarding to match the gate walls.

A 1917 Taisho merchant house by Kokawa Station, with a grand hall of embossed kinkarakami walls, an umbrella-ribbed ceiling and a Western stair hall; partly a cafe.

A 1918 earthen storehouse at the back of the Yamasaki estate in Kokawa, Wakayama, its walls sheathed in iron sheet, with three rooms below and one open room above.

A late-Taisho brick wall running 130 meters around the Yamasaki estate in Kokawa, Wakayama: tile-capped on the street front, raised as a firebreak on the west side.

A tall late-Taisho earthen storehouse on the Yamasaki estate's street corner in Kokawa, Wakayama, with a hongawara gable roof, board walls and a white plaster band.

A Taisho-era palm-fibre merchant's office on Route 370 in Kainan, Wakayama, with black lime plaster, a front glazed on both floors and iron columns. Registered 2007.

Largest of three Taisho storehouses of a palm-fibre merchant in Kainan, Wakayama: white gable to the road, iron-clad base, work area by the office. Registered 2007.

A Taisho storehouse parallel to Route 370 in Kainan, Wakayama, opposite a palm-fibre merchant's office, with three doorways and fine plaster eaves. Registered 2007.

Earliest of a palm-fibre merchant's Taisho storehouses in Kainan, Wakayama, with the Kaneichi mark on its gable and a boarded base. Registered 2007, on Route 370.

A 1937 two-storey annex of a hemp-palm merchant family in Kainan, Wakayama, named for its red-painted woodwork, with a chidori-hafu gable and a pale blue interior.

A roadside wall of Wakayama blue-green schist built around 1906 at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan: random rubble, 18 meters long and 1.8 meters high, coping on top.

A single-storey retirement house of 1937 at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, with red-earth gables, deep bracketed eaves and an L-shaped inner corridor.

A 1923 earthen storehouse at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, raised on a tall granite base, with white plaster walls, a boarded skirt and a hongawara roof.

A middle-Taisho earthen storehouse at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, set at right angles to its twin, with a pan-tile gable roof and an iron canopy.

A hemp-palm merchant's house in Kainan, Wakayama: late-Edo living quarters joined in 1906 by a three-storey wing with a railed top floor and palm-leaf roof tiles.

A small bracket gate of about 1906 at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, roofed in rounded local tiles, with single-board doors and a black plaster side wall.

Built in 1936 in Yuasa, a soy-sauce town, this steel-framed auditorium pairs a triple-arched porch with rhythmic ribbed side walls near the old quarter.

Built around 1933 by a Mio man who prospered in Canada's salmon fishery, this Japanese house with a clapboard Western parlor now serves as a town-run guesthouse.

A concrete gate and fence with washed-aggregate finish, pilasters and stepped coping front the Yushin-an house, a 1930s street face and Registered Cultural Property.