Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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In Fuso, Aichi, the 1934 belfry of Kakuo-ji is a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property: one bay square, packed with dense brackets and a painted ceiling.
Kakuo-ji Dainichido in Fuso, Aichi is a small 1794 worship hall, one of five registered buildings that together preserve an intact Edo-period Zen temple precinct.
Kakuoji Temple Main Hall in Fuso, Aichi, dates from 1814 and joined Japan's register in 2005. A Zen hall on an abbot's six-room plan, with a hidden upper floor.
Kakujoro Main Building, a 1936 restaurant-inn in the old port of Fukue on the Atsumi Peninsula, became Tahara's first Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2022.
A thatched late-Edo farmhouse south of Nagoya Station, built by the local yotsudate method, its garden pine said to model the old pine on the Nagoya Noh stage.
The presbytery of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church in Nagoya, a timber building of 1930 beside the parish hall, has a hipped roof and a two-storey bay window.
The parish hall of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church in Nagoya, a mid Meiji timber house in colonial style, has white-painted clapboard and a gabled entrance.
The brick wall of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church in Nagoya, a mid Meiji wall 29 metres long in English bond on a stone base, lines a historic street.
A brick downdraft kiln of 1921 and the black timber shed built around it in Tokoname, Aichi. Registered in 1997, and visitors walk into the firing chamber itself.
A brick chimney of 1921 rising 21 meters over Tokoname, Aichi, tapering from a 2.2-meter square base. Built to vent a drainpipe kiln, it was registered in 1997.
The Kamiya Family Residence Well House in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji well shelter with four inward-leaning posts, a cut-stone curb and a surviving bucket pulley.
The Kamiya Family Residence Inner Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji reception wing of 147 square metres, four rooms in a grid finished in the sukiya manner.
The Kamiya Family Residence Rear Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji two-storey mud-walled kura with a sheltered porch, used daily for household tools.
The Kamiya Family Residence Kettle House and Storage Shed in Anjo, Aichi, is a 14-metre strip of building, 1.8 metres deep, whose black wall reads as a fence.
The Kamiya Family Residence Koan Teahouse in Nagoya is a late Edo tea room of 10 square metres, moved here in 1911, with timber said to come from Nagoya Castle.
The Kamiya Family Residence Waiting Arbor in Nagoya is a 1923 tea garden bench of 1.3 square metres, with a half-moon window cut only on the principal guest's side.
The Kamiya Family Rice Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji kura of 80 square metres, its 7.3-metre span crossed by beams trebled up in the roof frame.
The Kamiya Family Residence Plastering Room and Charcoal Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a workshop range of about 1905 built continuous with the estate's main gate.
The Kamiya Family Residence Tatami Room in Anjo, Aichi, is an early Meiji reception wing of 85 square metres with a circular lattice window and a tea room.
The Kamiya Family Grain Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji two-storey kura whose window hood brackets are modelled in plaster into spiral scrolls.
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