Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A large mid-19th-century hipped-roof farmhouse in Naruko Onsen, Miyagi, keeping the old local plan of a broad earthen floor with an indoor stable. Registered 1997.

A Meiji farmhouse in Naruko Onsen, Miyagi, keeping a four-room plan with the stable indoors, typical of this horse-breeding area, now re-roofed. Registered 1998.

A hot-spring bathhouse beside the Yusa farmhouse in Naruko Onsen, Miyagi: a concrete tub under a simple timber shelter, a community bath when registered in 1998.

An early Meiji clay storehouse on the Yusa farmstead in Tome, Miyagi: white plaster, a namako tile dado, a slate set-on roof and a triple door. Registered 2006.

An early Showa guest wing on the Yusa farmstead in Tome, Miyagi: two ten-mat rooms with alcoves and a writing bay, thatched roof, segai eaves. Registered 2006.

A small Meiji clay-walled miso store on a raised terrace of the Yusa farmstead in Tome, Miyagi, with a set-on gabled roof and a pebble-finish dado. Registered 2006.

A tiny Taisho miso room beside the Yusa farmhouse in Naruko Onsen, Miyagi: plastered walls, a pantile roof and one curved beam carrying the roof. Registered in 1998.

A stone cellar of about 1935 cut into a slope on the Yusa farmstead in Naruko Onsen, Miyagi: dressed-stone walls, arched concrete roof, used for pickling vegetables.

Taisho-era storehouse of the Yusaya Ryokan at Naruko Onsen, built of so-called timber-reinforced concrete, with a stone-patterned base and arched openings.

The chapel of Tohoku Gakuin in Sendai, dedicated in 1932 and named for an American donor, is a Collegiate Gothic building of tall pointed windows and pilasters.

Built in 1930 in Kyoto, the Aoki Family Residence Main House sets a stained-glass Western room at the street and a sukiya tatami wing behind. Registered 2014.

A mud-walled kura of just 13 square metres, the Aoki Family Residence Storehouse of 1930 faces the sukiya main house across a Kyoto courtyard. Registered in 2014.

A small tea house on Kaga Shotaro's Oyamazaki estate, its table-style tea seat doubling as a Buddhist chapel, opened only for seasonal tea gatherings.

A tiny teahouse on Kaga Shotaro's estate, a log-framed room projecting over a stone base set into the slope, a deft blend of West and Japan. Not normally open.

An English Tudor villa the financier Kaga Shotaro designed himself, its half-timbered shell and Jacobean rooms now a museum showing Monet and Mingei crafts.

A 1926 timber villa on the Yura River levee at Fukuchiyama, built for businessman Kataoka Kyubei. Its top floor is finished in high-grade red pine. Registered 2000.

A stone myojin torii marking the approach to Amino Shrine, raised in 1881 and 5.5 metres tall. Toppled in the 1927 quake, it was rebuilt to its original form in 1929.

Once the main hall of Amino Shrine, this 1782 building is the oldest here. Reborn in 1925 as Koori Shrine, its cypress-bark hall carries lavish Edo-period carving.

By the worship hall stands Amino Shrine's offering hall, an early-Showa building where offerings for the deities are prepared, plain but carefully made.

Wrapping around the main hall of Amino Shrine, this thirty-metre early-Showa openwork fence is solid below and latticed above, ringing the sacred inner ground.