Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

A late Edo townhouse in Isshiki, Nishio, registered in 2022. A drawing dated 1849 matches its six-room farmhouse plan, and the altar room has a raised bay.

A mid-Meiji reception wing beside the main house in Isshiki, Nishio, registered in 2022. Two rooms of 10 mats, an alcove with shelves, a polished cedar post.

Built in 1879, the Suzuki Family Residence Storehouse in Aisai City is the oldest of four registered structures here, eleven years older than the main house.

The Suzuki Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Aisai City, a middle Meiji earthen store for the family's reclaimed paddy, has held a century-old Steinway since 2023.

In Showa Ward, Nagoya, the Suzuki Family Residence Main House pairs a central-corridor plan with a Western wing, showing how prewar Nagoya built its new suburbs.

Built in 1890 at Saya in Aisai City, the Suzuki Family Residence Main House holds a formal principal room, a temple-like altar room and a sukiya tea room.

Early Showa granite gate posts and a 77-metre concrete wall cut to imitate edo-giri masonry are the only part of the Aisai Suzuki estate visible from the street.

The Sumi Hall of 1957 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, an early work by Tange Kenzo, joins an office block and a hall under double-beam girders of exposed reinforced concrete.

The chapel of the Seto Eisen Church in Seto, Aichi, a small timber church of 1900, has clapboarded walls with pointed-arch sash windows and hexagonal windows.

A late Edo reception wing at Zengyoji in Nagoya, registered in 2018. Its shikidai porch, lattice gable and cusped windows mark a temple that received guests of rank.

Zengyoji Temple Main Gate in Nagoya is a four-legged gate of 1755, dated by a surviving ridge tablet naming its carpenter. Stacked arched beams; registered in 2018.

Built around 1896 in Nagoya, Zengyoji Temple Bell Tower packs Zen-style bracketing and fan rafters into 7.6 square metres on a rough stone base. Registered 2018.

Late Edo in date, Zengyoji Temple Drum Tower carries a pyramidal turret off-centre on a gabled roof and began life as a storehouse below. Registered in 2018.

The smallest of six registered buildings at Zengyoji in Nagoya, this pavilion shelters a stone basin inscribed 1743, older than its Showa roof by two centuries.

Built in 1706 in Nagoya, Zengyoji Temple Main Hall omits the columns of its outer worship area beneath a latticed coffered ceiling. Registered in 2018.

Built in 1689, Sennenji Temple Priests' Quarters in Inuyama, Aichi, is a 21-meter gable-entry kuri with formal rooms west, family rooms east. Registered 2007.

Sennenji Temple Main Hall in Inuyama, Aichi, was built in 1673. Its Jodo-sect plan of veranda, outer and inner sanctuaries survives, and it was registered in 2007.

Zenryuji Temple Entrance Hall in Okazaki, Aichi, was built in 1898. Three rooms in a row, a curved gable at the centre, one coffered ceiling for the formal room.

Zenryuji Temple Main Gate in Okazaki, Aichi, is an early Meiji koraimon. It spans 3.2 metres, with a low roofline and copper-faced doors below a heavy lattice.

Zenryuji Temple Shichimen Hall in Okazaki, Aichi, is a late Edo hall to the deity Shichimen. Narrow and deep, it carries bracketed, polychrome work at the sanctuary.