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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.
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.
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.
A mid-Meiji earthen kura in Inuyama's old castle town, the Takino Family Storehouse shows namako-kabe walls and heavy earthen fire doors, registered in 2004.
Tanahashi Family Residence Main House in Arimatsu, Nagoya, was built in 1875 for the Oigeta Hattori shibori wholesalers. Ridge plaque, plastered front, 2009 listing.
Built in 1902 in an old Aichi cotton town, the pale-blue wooden Chita Okada Simple Post Office was Chita's first registered cultural property and still sells stamps.
The main hall of Chobo-ji in Nagoya is a registered hojo-style building rebuilt in 1894 after the Great Nobi Earthquake, at a Zen temple founded by the monk Muju.
Built in 1887, the saimonden and corridor of Chiryu Shrine in Aichi link its halls under one cypress-bark roof, a rare Owari-style layout registered in 2014.
The Ubagami-sha at Chiryu-jinja in Aichi is a vermilion Meiji-period auxiliary shrine to a mother goddess of childbirth, registered for its fine carving.
Chiryū-an, a Meiji-era tea house relocated to Chiryū Shrine in 1968, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property prized for sukiya touches such as bark-edged posts.
The main hall of Tokuunji in Nishio, Aichi, built in 1883, 3 bays wide and 8 deep for a large outer sanctuary, its plain exterior fit for nenbutsu. Registered 2021.
The Black Gate of Tokugawaen in Nagoya, built in 1899 as the main gate of the Owari Tokugawa residence, is a broad zelkova gate flanked by walls and a gate lodge.
The well of Tokugawaen in Nagoya, made around 1900 near the old stables, has a granite curb and a small roof hung with an iron pulley pierced with cherry blossoms.
The walls of Tokugawaen in Nagoya, built around 1900 along the west of the estate, run 84 metres, plastered by the Black Gate and boarded on the slope.
The gatehouse range of Tokugawaen in Nagoya, built around 1900 beside the Black Gate, is a 20-metre range whose lattice window shows its role as a gate lodge.
Built in 1883 and registered in 2014, this Nagoya tea building sets upper, middle and lower rooms at stepped floor levels, with a shelter for a guest's attendants.
A Rinzai Zen main hall in Inuyama's castle town, rebuilt in 1896 after the Nobi earthquake. Its outer sanctuary omits the dividing columns, opening one wide space.
Two joined storehouses of 1876 behind the Tomita deputy's house in Okazaki, Aichi, black-boarded below and plastered above. Registered 2020; documents on view.
A Meiji-period storehouse on the old Tokaido in Arimatsu, Nagoya. Registered in 2008, it shows black lime plaster, a washed plinth and fire-sealing doors upstairs.