Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Otani Family Residence Corridor in Toyokawa, Aichi, covers 2.5 square meters. Built around 1916 and registered in 2017, it links a house and a storehouse.

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.

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.

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