Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Completed in 1927, this concrete building with herringbone brick tilework survived the 1945 air raids as the last Faculty of Law and Letters building.

Built in 1932 and extended in 1935, this scratch-tile building with vertical piers and a stone entrance now serves as Tohoku University's headquarters.

This V-shaped 1924 building, among Sendai's first concrete works, has a cylindrical corner and Secession entrance; Gallery Historia opens free twice weekly.

The Meiji residence of a sake brewery founded in 1790, this 175 m² timber building anchors the Kamuro merchant complex by Furukawa's poetic Odae bridge in Miyagi.

A Meiji-era two-story dozō on the old Ōshū Kaidō in Furukawa, counter house of the Hashihei sake brewery, with white plaster walls and a black cornice band.

A Meiji-era timber shopfront in Furukawa, once the public face of the Hashihei sake brewery (founded 1790). Registered in 2021, it now anchors the Kamuro complex.

Built in 1921 in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, the Former Hirano Honten Store and Main House is a two-story wooden building combining a flamboyant Western-style shopfront with a traditional hipped-roof residence. Long cherished as a landmark at the crossroads of two historic highways, it is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The Former Marumori Post Office in Miyagi Prefecture, completed in 1935, is a wooden two-story Western-style building registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2009. Its scratch-tile ground floor, pebble-dash upper story, and dentil-decorated parapet capture the early-Showa fashion for modernist architecture as it reached small provincial towns. Together with the nearby Sairi Yashiki estate, it offers a window into the layered history of Marumori, a quiet town tucked along the Abukuma River.

A 1930 zashiki storehouse behind the Kakutaya shop, Toyoma, Tome City, built by a Yamada branch family, with an upstairs room of lacquered zelkova. Registered 2021.

An early Showa zelkova gate on Toyoma's main street in Tome City, with a one-board transom, carved brackets and a pendant pierced with cranes. Registered 2021.

A late Meiji storehouse at the back of a Toyoma brewery in Tome City, 48 m², with all-zelkova posts on a 6-shaku module and double-bracketed eaves. Registered 2021.

An early Showa shop storehouse on Toyoma's main street, Tome City: hipped roof, stone-clad base, barred glass doors and an upstairs alcove room. Registered in 2021.

A small early Showa document storehouse on Toyoma's main street, Tome City, with copper-clad eaves and stone vents, paired with the shop storehouse. Registered 2021.

The oldest building on the Yamada brewery lot in Toyoma, Tome City: an early Meiji storehouse of 25 m², dated partly by the square nails inside. Registered 2021.

Kinkazan Lighthouse off the Oshika Peninsula in Miyagi, designed by Richard Henry Brunton in 1876, is a granite tower and the oldest stone lighthouse in Tohoku.

The Sairi Yashiki Stone Bathhouse in Marumori, Miyagi, is a late Meiji bath of local granite with edokiri joints and a stone tub, filled with water heated elsewhere.

The Sairi Yashiki Rear Gate and Wall in Marumori, Miyagi, are an early Meiji munamon gate with shingled eaves and a wicket door, plus a short timber wall.

The Sairi Yashiki Front Gate in Marumori, Miyagi, is an early Meiji yakuimon gate of solid zelkova with single-board doors and temple-style bracketing.

The Sairi Yashiki Outdoor Lamp in Marumori, Miyagi, is an early Showa garden lamp: a granite column topped with an iron post, S-curved supports and a glass globe.

The Sumai no Kura at Sairi Yashiki in Marumori, Miyagi, is an early Meiji earthen storehouse with black plaster trim, where dioramas and graffiti recall its clerks.

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