Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

A small earthen storehouse at Sairenji temple near Inuyama Station, built in the Meiji era and moved here in 1937. One of the temple's five registered buildings.

The kuri at Sairenji in Inuyama is a late-Edo priest's residence and kitchen wing, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the town below Inuyama Castle.

Below Inuyama Castle stands Sairen-ji's gate, a late-Edo yakuimon registered in 2007 for its place in the historic castle-town streetscape and its carved detail.

In Inuyama's old castle town, Sairenji's two-story shoin is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, valued for the historic temple streetscape it preserves.

The 1760 main hall of Sairenji, a Pure Land temple in Inuyama's temple town, is a five-bay, hip-and-gable hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2007.

A registered 1872 farmhouse in Kira, Aichi, built by a coastal shipping family. Its drama is overhead: a well-crib roof frame above the earthen-floored rooms.

The Sahashi Family Residence in Inuyama, known as Toraya, is a mid-Meiji townhouse registered in 2007 for its balustraded upper windows and black-plaster end bays.

A 1927 wooden wing of the former Damine Elementary School in Aichi's Okumikawa hills, listed as a national cultural property in 2014 and closed as a school in 2024.

A 1927 timber schoolhouse in the Aichi mountain hamlet of Damine, this Registered Cultural Property was preserved by a seismic retrofit and used until 2024.

On Ama City's old Kamakura Road stands the four-legged Zen-style gate of a Nichiren temple. Registered in 2005, this mid-Edo gate survived the 1891 Nobi earthquake.

Once a Shingon fire-ritual hall, now a Nichiren temple near Nagoya, this registered wooden hall keeps an old Nichiren-hall plan under a pyramidal tiled roof.

At Jissō-ji, a Rinzai temple in Nishio, Aichi, the kuri was kitchen and living hall. Rebuilt in the Genroku era, it frames a beam-spanned room over an earthen floor.

Jissō-ji's hōjō in Nishio is a large early-Edo Zen abbot's hall at the Kira family temple. Restored with a copper roof, it is now a Nishio City cultural property.

Shibata Family Residence Main House in Kiyosu, Aichi, is an 1896 candy merchant's townhouse on the Minoji road, registered in 2006. Crossed beams and annual opening.

Added in 1893 beside its older neighbour in the former Narumi post town of Nagoya, Naka Storehouse joins under a dropped roof and hides an iron tie in its frame.

Built in 1891 in the old Narumi post town of Nagoya, the black-plastered two-storey Momiji Storehouse of the Shimozato Chiyokura house was registered in 2024.

The main gate of Jakkoin in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1836, is a thick-timbered yakuimon carved with a dragon and peonies at the entrance to the maple temple.

The Zuigudo of Jakkoin in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1805 beside the main hall, is a house-like hall of hinged shutters whose form shows its use for retreats.

The Bentendo of Jakkoin in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1820, is a tiny hexagonal hall above the main hall, its rafters and ceiling ribs radiating from the centre.

The main hall of Jakkoin in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1879, is a full-scale hall of restrained traditional form at the temple known as the maple temple of Owari.

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