Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A building of about 1934 at Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory: a trussed store of exposed Akiu stone for soybeans, with a timber weighing shed behind. Registered 2019.

An early Showa staff break room at Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory: one mortar-floored room under a pantiled gable, glazed on both sides. Registered in 2019.

An early Showa garage for delivery vans at Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory: a timber shed whose full-width front closes with a steel shutter. Registered in 2019.

A single-storey building of about 1934 at Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory, where packed natto ferments in small rooms along a trolley track. Registered in 2019.

The core building of Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory, about 1934: a two-storey office joined to a trussed workroom where natto is still made. Registered 2019.

A timber boiler house of about 1950 at Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory, holding a brick lignite-fired boiler and chimney that heated the soybeans. Registered 2019.

Moritami Sake Brewery Residence in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is a Taishō-era family home with a Western-style north room: sash windows, a bay window and a ceiling rose.

Moritami Sake Brewery Chimney in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is an early Shōwa brick stack 16 metres tall on a 1.5-metre base, laid in English bond with a band of dark brick.

Moritami Sake Brewery Inner Room in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is a late Meiji reception wing of two ten-mat rooms with sukiya-style rafters and an old porcelain toilet.

Moritami Sake Brewery Kamaya in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is a gabled rice-steaming house of about 1883 whose brick firebox fed a flue to the chimney, still at work today.

Moritami Sake Brewery North Storehouse in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is a late Meiji two-storey storehouse with plastered walls and a base faced with local Shiogama tuff.

The Brewing Storehouse of Moritami Sake Brewery in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is a clay-walled sake hall of about 1883, 36 metres long, with a king post truss.

Built around 1883 as the brewery opened, this townhouse in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, has a plastered front, projecting lattice and low upper floor, and is still the shop.

Moritami Sake Brewery Detached Room in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is a retirement house of about 1935 with a glazed veranda, apparently now the Showa Retro Museum.

Main building of 1936 at Yusaya Ryokan, keeper of Naruko Onsen's Taki-no-yu, with rooms for long-stay bathers below and the best rooms upstairs on the street side.

A Meiji plank rice store on the Yusa farmstead in Tome, Miyagi, linked to the guest hall; posts 45 centimetres apart hold dropped-in boards. Registered 2006.

An 1885 two-storey plank store dated by its ridge tablet, on the Yusa farmstead in Naruko Onsen: posts every 38 centimetres, once shingle-roofed. Registered 1998.

A Taisho stable on the Yusa farmstead in Tome, Miyagi: thatched roof under sheet iron, segai eaves, white plastered walls, two stalls and a store. Registered 2006.

A shed of about 1945 on the Yusa farmstead in Naruko Onsen, Miyagi, used for firewood and building materials, with one open bay and plank walls. Registered 1998.

A mid-Edo farmhouse in Ishinomori, Tome, Miyagi: nine bays long, hipped roof, a staggered four-room plan and bent beams over the earthen floor. Registered in 2006.

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