Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

The monks' quarters of Enmyoji in Inuyama, Aichi, from the mid-Meiji period, is a carefully built reception building with a gabled formal entrance of fine timber.

The main hall of Enmyoji in Inuyama, Aichi, from the early Edo period, is a Jodo Shinshu hall with a rear-door inner sanctuary whose square pillars keep early forms.

The Okura Park Thatched Gate in Obu, Aichi, fronted Okura Kazuchika's Taisho villa. Moved in 1979 and still rethatched by Tono craftsmen, it was registered in 2015.

The Okura Park Rest House in Obu, Aichi, was the guest annexe of Okura Kazuchika's Taisho villa. Four tatami rooms step around a central pantry; registered in 2015.

A four-and-a-half-mat tea room of 1826 hidden behind a house in Inuyama, Aichi. Woven ceiling over the host, boarded over guests. Registered in 2013, open yearly.

The rice store of the Otani family in Toyokawa, Aichi, of about 1928, is a closed, fire-resistant concrete store with a stair hall under a vaulted ceiling.

The main house of the Otani family in Toyokawa, Aichi, built in 1916 below Mount Hongu, has a formal entrance, a central corridor and a frame of fine local timber.

The storehouse of the Otani family in Toyokawa, Aichi, of about 1916, is a plastered two-storey store with a namako-tiled front and black-plastered window frames.

The corridor of the Otani family in Toyokawa, Aichi, of about 1916, is a small gabled passage between the house and storehouse with beams under an exposed roof.

The main hall of Oma Shrine in Seto, Aichi, built in 1805, is a three-bay nagare-style shrine whose framed doorway, set back from the open front, shows a local form.

The 1917 former Okazaki Bank head office on the old Tokaido in Okazaki, Aichi, designed by Suzuki Teiji in brick and granite; now a free museum. Registered property.

A tiny Meiji strongroom beside the Okumura main house in Inuyama. Just 14 square metres, yet its tiled canopies and black plaster answer the view from the west.

A late-Edo grain store in Inuyama facing the inner gate across the compound. Five and a half ken long and 51 square metres, the largest store on the Okumura plot.

A late-Edo merchant house on Inuyama's old highway, rebuilt after the 1842 fire. Seven ken wide, plaster-clad, with a low tsushi upper floor. Registered 1999.

A Meiji storehouse west of the Okumura rice store in Inuyama. Three ken square, taller than its neighbour, and finished with ridge-end tiles that mark a higher rank.

A Meiji outbuilding in Inuyama sharing two walls with a storehouse and a boundary wall, forming a narrow alley-like space against the compound's covered passage.

A Taisho sukiya-style room built hard against a storehouse wall in Inuyama, with an eight-mat room and a slatted moon-viewing deck projecting on its north side.

The East Takabei is a 17.4-meter plastered wall of a merchant compound in Inuyama, braced by buttress posts and listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

A small late-Edo gate at the former Okumura merchant house in Inuyama, Aichi: black-plastered front, white rear, just six square meters, registered in 1999.

The watari-ro of the Okumura Residence in Inuyama is a Meiji-era covered corridor doubling as a well-house, one of nine registered buildings now run as a restaurant.