Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built between 1830 and 1867 in Kami Town, Miyagi, this farmhouse keeps its staggered four-room plan and massive kitchen beams. Registered in 2002; now a restaurant.

Shop and house of 1936 for a Sendai miso maker on Route 48 in Aoba Ward, a two-storey gabled shop with a house behind, in the segai-zukuri style of old Sendai.

Retirement house of 1954 at a fishing family's compound on Tashirojima, Ishinomaki: two storeys, with bay windows and a reception room facing the sea.

Main house of 1881 of a fishing family on Tashirojima, Ishinomaki: a single-storey hip-and-gable house with a projecting entrance and a 15-mat okami room.

The Sumaru Yashiki Shop Storehouse in Shiroishi is a late Meiji two-storey storehouse shop with iron-grilled windows and two-tone plaster eaves. Registered in 2019.

Tucked away in the hills of Shiroishi, Miyagi Prefecture, the small but vivid vermilion-lacquered Koshido Hall (a Registered Tangible Cultural Property) enshrines the spirits of the Miyagino and Shinobu sisters — the heroines of the celebrated kabuki revenge play "Goban Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi."

Tamakō, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Shiroishi, Miyagi, is a late-Meiji ryōtei (1898–1912) renovated in 1925. Sitting beside the old Shiroishi Castle outer moat, its 678 m² complex of east and west banquet wings around a central pond preserves a rare type of large-scale wooden hospitality architecture.

Completed in 1923 and nationally registered in 2024, this Taishō-era worship hall in Tome, Miyagi displays masterly carvings by Tōhoku artisan Ishii Torashō.

The Main Hall of Tsushima Shrine in Tome City, Miyagi Prefecture, is a one-bay Nagare-zukuri style structure registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2024. Rebuilt in 1919 after the great Sanuma fire, the small wooden hall is densely adorned with vibrant carvings by Ishii Toramasa, one of the foremost shrine carvers of the Tohoku region. Originally relocated in 1614 by order of Date Masamune to guard Sanuma Castle, the Main Hall faces north — a rare orientation that reflects its unique role as spiritual protector of the castle town.

The Mikoshi-den at Tsushima Shrine in Tome City, Miyagi, was donated in 1928 together with the mikoshi itself by Sato Tetsuro, operator of the Sanuma Railway. It marked the end of a decade-long reconstruction after the catastrophic 1912 fire, and in 2024 it was added to Japan's national register of tangible cultural properties alongside the shrine's main and worship halls.

A 2.9 by 2.1 meter charm booth of 1927 before the Sadayoshi Mausoleum Hall, with a hip-and-gable copper roof and glazed doors. Still used for charms and goshuin.

A carved hexagonal hall of 1927 over the grave of Taira no Sadayoshi, the temple's main hall until 1999. Old timbers, wind and thunder gods, sutra copying inside.

A three-bay, two-storied gate built in 1932 by Kesen carpenter Hanawa Kikuzo, its upper half crowded with carved lions, monkeys and zodiac animals. Registered 2018.

An open belfry of 1932 by Kesen carpenters with round posts, doubled tie beams, lattice transoms, brackets and a coffered ceiling. Its Kyoto-cast bell came in 1933.

A tiny gabled water pavilion of about 1933 with a coffered ceiling, tie beam, three-block brackets and carved struts, matching the Bell Tower opposite it.

The gate of Toshinji in Shiroishi, Miyagi, built in 1887 with timbers said to come from a gate of Shiroishi Castle, has a bell chamber with a jewel-shaped opening.

The main hall of Toshinji in Shiroishi, Miyagi, built in 1831 south-east of the castle town, has a typical Jodo-school plan and openwork carvings on its porch.

Built in 1926 and designed by American architect J.H. Morgan in the Collegiate Gothic style, the Main Gate of Tohoku Gakuin University features a reinforced concrete structure with a washed-out finish imitating stone masonry. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2021, it has stood as the symbolic entrance to one of Tohoku's most prestigious private universities for nearly a century.

Completed in 1953, this five-story reinforced concrete former university library is a fine example of postwar modernist architecture, cleverly designed with tall narrow windows to appear as a three-story building. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2014, it stands on the Tsuchitoi Campus of Tohoku Gakuin University in Sendai, forming part of a historic academic ensemble with the Main Hall and Chapel.

Designed by American architect J.H. Morgan and completed in 1926, the Main Hall of Tohoku Gakuin University is a three-story reinforced concrete building in the College Gothic style, clad in locally quarried Akiu stone. A beloved campus landmark symbolizing Tohoku Gakuin's growth era, it was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2014.

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