Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Sairi Yashiki Stone Utility Pole in Marumori, Miyagi, is a 5.4-metre granite power pole with its insulator, a relic of the Saito family's electric light company.

The Toki no Kura at Sairi Yashiki in Marumori, Miyagi, is a mid-Meiji earthen storehouse with a Western roof truss and carved brackets, and a 130-year-old clock.

The Nariwai no Kura at Sairi Yashiki in Marumori, Miyagi, is an early Meiji timber storehouse with exposed posts and ties, now used to explain the family trade.

The Sairi Yashiki Lightning Rod Tower in Marumori, Miyagi, is a 26-metre early Showa steel truss for a private home, said to reflect an owner's fear of thunder.

The Sairi Yashiki Shop Storehouse in Marumori, Miyagi, is an 1848 fireproof merchant storehouse with namako-kabe walls and plaster fire doors, now the reception.

The Yomego no Kura at Sairi Yashiki in Marumori, Miyagi, is a 1904 earthen storehouse with a tall detached roof and black plaster trim, framing the street front.

The Warabe no Kura at Sairi Yashiki in Marumori, Miyagi, is the smallest storehouse on the lot, a Taisho-era earthen kura now filled with old toys and games.

A tiny sukiya-style well house of about 1939 on the Sato estate in Ogawara, Miyagi, with log posts, a timber well curb and a west face of diamond lattice.

A garden wall of about 1939 inside the Sato estate in Ogawara, Miyagi, 75 metres long, faced in split bamboo on one side, with a diamond-patterned gate.

A two-storey storehouse of about 1939 in Ogawara, Miyagi, 13 metres long, with clay-sealed openings in torii-shaped frames, a king post truss and a T-shaped stair.

The yakuimon gate and 54-metre boundary wall of about 1939 on the Oshu Kaido in Ogawara, Miyagi, heavy posts below a light roof, visible from the street.

A household Inari shrine of 1899 on the Sato estate in Ogawara, Miyagi, walled in lattice, with a nagare-zukuri cabinet and a carved lion, dragon and phoenix.

A courtyard house of about 1939 built by a soy sauce brewing family in Ogawara, Miyagi, with more than 30 rooms, tatami throughout and just two Western rooms.

A tiny shinmei-style shrine on the Sato estate in Ogawara, Miyagi, first built as a pre-war hoanden and moved here after 1945, with ridge posts and six katsuogi.

A tatami reception block of about 1901 in Ogawara, Miyagi, moved in 1936, with a tea room, an alcove and shelves split across a corner, and a king post truss.

An 1886 two-storey storehouse facing the Oshu Kaido in Ogawara, Miyagi, clad in lime plaster and namako tiling, the oldest building on the Sato estate.

An early Showa stone torii, 2.4 metres high, marking the household-god precinct of the Sato estate in Ogawara, Miyagi, its round pillars leaning slightly inward.

Powerhouse of 1909 in Sendai at the station that lit Japan's first hydroelectric lamps in 1888, with a raised clerestory roof; still generating today.

A Taisho shop-house in Kesennuma's inner bay, its upper windows crowned with segmental pediments, its walls white-plastered. Registered in 2006, it still trades.

Behind a registered Kesennuma shop sits this 25-square-metre Taisho storehouse, roofed by a Western truss. Tsunami repairs reinstated its namako-kabe walls.

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