Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

The ōiden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, built around 1856, encloses the older honden and is shaped like a full main hall with a carved canopy.

Built in 1909, the chūden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, is a rare middle hall between the worship and covering halls, carved with dragons and cranes.

Built in 1882, the haiden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, stands at the front of the central halls, richly carved, its roof re-tiled in 2024 to 2025.

At Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, a small Edo-period honden sits within a covering hall, anchoring a rare line of four halls registered in 2024.

On Honmachi-dori, which climbs to Inuyama Castle, this late-Edo townhouse is unusually broad at 11.8 meters, its face black plaster behind lattice. Listed 2004.

At the south edge of the Umeda property stands this early-Showa warehouse, a long two-story timber building of about 18 meters, divided into five rooms. Listed 2004.

Facing the Umeda property's west road, this 9.1-meter tiled wall joins the main house to the warehouse, ink-black boards below and white plaster above. Listed 2004.

A registered belfry at Unkoji temple in Seto, Aichi. A ridge tag dates it to 1810 and names its carpenter. Local Akazu tiles roof it; the bell was recast in 2009.

An 1893 gabled block behind the main hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, housing a founder's hall with a cusped niche and a memorial tablet hall. Registered.

A tiny late Edo sutra storehouse at Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, 10 shaku square with a pyramidal roof and plastered walls. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The 1810 kitchen and study hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, a 702-square-metre building with great grid beams and a courtyard. Registered property.

The 1794 four-legged gate of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, built entirely of zelkova by Tatekawa-school carpenters and decorated with carving. Registered property.

The 1722 monks' hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, linked to the meditation hall and forming the west side of the monastery. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The 1722 meditation hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, whose side bays once served as meditation platforms; probably thatched at first. Registered property.

A 1926 guardian shrine at Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, enshrining Dakiniten, merged with Inari worship, in a small hall with an inner shrine. Registered property.

The 1697 main hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, a hip-and-gable Soto Zen hall whose front veranda once served as a passage linking the monastery. Registered.

A townhouse of 1900 on Honmachi-dori in Inuyama, Aichi, built on a corner: plain gable north, hipped gable south, eaves wrapping round. Registered in 2005.

The priests' quarters of Enmyoji in Inuyama, Aichi, a late Edo townhouse of the castle town moved here in the Meiji period, keeps its curved roof and front lattices.

The main gate of Enmyoji in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1937 by Ito Heizaemon, is a four-legged gate with a cusped gable and two tiers of carved beams and struts.

The bell tower of Enmyoji in Inuyama, Aichi, from the mid-Edo period, is an open Zen-style tower on a stone base with close-set brackets and strongly upturned eaves.

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