Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

Rebuilt in Inuyama after an 1842 fire by the tile makers who revived Inuyama ware, the Ozeki Family Main House keeps a vast earthen work hall. Registered 1999.

The Ozeki Family Storehouse in Inuyama is a two storey earthen walled kura of about 1842. A pent roof shelters its east front and its ground floor is a gallery.

The Onoda Family Residence Main House in Toyohashi, Aichi, dates from 1886, with a reception wing of 1920 and a gatehouse of about 1849 in front. Registered 2013.

The long gatehouse of the Onoda Family Residence in Toyohashi, Aichi, built about 1849: 17 meters with storerooms each side of the doors. Registered 2013. Private.

This steel Ferris wheel of 1956 on a department-store roof in Sakae, Nagoya, hangs nine cars from a 10-metre wheel and is among the oldest surviving in Japan.

The main hall of Kagakuji, family temple of the Kira clan in Nishio, Aichi, built in 1684, keeps the six-room plan and slender timbers of an early Zen hall.

At Kakuo-ji, a Rinzai temple in Fuso, Aichi, the 1840 kuri is a Registered Cultural Property: a 24-meter temple kitchen with a roof smoke vent and a decorated gable.

Kakuoji's gate in Fuso, Aichi, is a one-bay zelkova yakui-mon built in 1902, among five temple buildings on Japan's register of tangible cultural properties.

In Fuso, Aichi, the 1934 belfry of Kakuo-ji is a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property: one bay square, packed with dense brackets and a painted ceiling.

Kakuo-ji Dainichido in Fuso, Aichi is a small 1794 worship hall, one of five registered buildings that together preserve an intact Edo-period Zen temple precinct.

Kakuoji Temple Main Hall in Fuso, Aichi, dates from 1814 and joined Japan's register in 2005. A Zen hall on an abbot's six-room plan, with a hidden upper floor.

Kakujoro Main Building, a 1936 restaurant-inn in the old port of Fukue on the Atsumi Peninsula, became Tahara's first Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2022.

A thatched late-Edo farmhouse south of Nagoya Station, built by the local yotsudate method, its garden pine said to model the old pine on the Nagoya Noh stage.

The presbytery of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church in Nagoya, a timber building of 1930 beside the parish hall, has a hipped roof and a two-storey bay window.

The parish hall of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church in Nagoya, a mid Meiji timber house in colonial style, has white-painted clapboard and a gabled entrance.

The brick wall of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church in Nagoya, a mid Meiji wall 29 metres long in English bond on a stone base, lines a historic street.

A brick downdraft kiln of 1921 and the black timber shed built around it in Tokoname, Aichi. Registered in 1997, and visitors walk into the firing chamber itself.

A brick chimney of 1921 rising 21 meters over Tokoname, Aichi, tapering from a 2.2-meter square base. Built to vent a drainpipe kiln, it was registered in 1997.

The Kamiya Family Residence Well House in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji well shelter with four inward-leaning posts, a cut-stone curb and a surviving bucket pulley.

The Kamiya Family Residence Inner Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji reception wing of 147 square metres, four rooms in a grid finished in the sukiya manner.

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