Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Kamiya Family Residence Main Gate in Anjo, Aichi, is a 14-metre gatehouse of 1905, hipped at the east end and gabled at the west, with rooms built in.
The Kamiya Family Residence Carpenter's Room and Inner Japanese Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a Taisho workshop with a tall interior and an unusual beam assembly.
The Kamiya Family Residence Nakakuguri Gate in Nagoya is a small early Showa bracket gate, 1.7 metres wide, with a carved reused member in its north bracket.
The Kamiya Family Residence Hakuroken in Nagoya is a late Edo sukiya building of 78 square metres, combining a broad tea room with a tiny attached tea room.
The Kamiya Family Treasure House in Anjo, Aichi, is a Taisho two-storey kura raised on three courses of granite, with three drip courses across its walls.
The Kamiya Family Residence Miso Storehouse and Library in Anjo, Aichi, is a Taisho building whose ground floor holds a miso store, a store and a library.
The Kamiya Family Residence Yokoya in Anjo, Aichi, is an early Meiji wing boarded shut towards the street and opened with posts and a veranda on the courtyard side.
The Kamiya Family Residence Connecting Passage in Anjo, Aichi, is a 13-metre link joining the estate's workrooms to its rice storehouse, open on the inner side.
The 1928 main hall of Kijo Elementary School in Kariya, Aichi, is a reinforced-concrete building by Onaka Hajime on the old castle grounds, now a free local museum.
Moved from a town in 1917 and remade as a farmhouse, the Kawata Family Residence in Fuso, Aichi keeps a machiya roof and plan while its upper floor reared silkworms.
Built in 1938 on a crossroads corner of Inuyama's old castle town, this timber merchant house keeps the narrow deep plot form and a passage open to the roof above.
Along the west and south of the Kawarada Residence in Nagoya runs a concrete retaining wall faced with coursed Oya stone, capped and crowned with a clipped hedge.
At the south edge of the Kawarada Residence in Nagoya, a 1938 tiled wall steps down the slope in three stages to a recessed sliding-door gate with carved transoms.
At the cut northwest corner of the Kawarada Residence in Nagoya, a 1938 bracket-arm gate and tiled earthen wall form the formal street face of a Showa garden house.
Kawarada Family Residence Main Building, in Nagoya's Showa Ward, dates from 1937. Registered in 2020 with its gates and Oya stone wall, it covers 144 square meters.
The former head office of Kankyo Mirin in Kanie, Aichi, built in 1937 on the Kanie River, is a concrete office with scratch-tile walls and terracotta trim.
The Kankyo mirin factory in Kanie, Aichi, begun in 1877 and extended in 1906 and 1913, is a U-shaped works with earthen walls and rows of high windows.
Built in 1923 within the grounds of Kankyo Shuzo, a historic mirin brewery in Kanie, Aichi, this two-story wooden residence blends a refined shoin-style interior with a second-floor Western-style room. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, it embodies the architectural transition of the Taisho era.
Completed in 1923 alongside the family residence, the Kankyo Mirin Residence Earthen Storehouse in Kanie, Aichi Prefecture is a two-story dozō registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2005. Located within the working compound of Kankyō Shuzō — a mirin and sake brewery founded in 1862 — it features striking black-plaster walls and an unusual direct connection to the main residence, embodying the riverside heritage of one of Japan's longest-running fermentation enterprises.
A storehouse built around 1924 for a town office in Aichi, hiding reinforced concrete walls under a traditional plastered look, now the local museum's collection store.
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