Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Nestled on the campus of Taki Junior and Senior High School in Konan City, Aichi Prefecture, the Taki Gakuen Library is a rare Registered Tangible Cultural Property where two eras of Japanese architecture stand stacked: a 1933 ground floor in the spirit of pre-war reinforced concrete schoolhouses, and a 1965 upper floor capturing the bright optimism of post-war modernism. Still in active use as the school library it was always meant to be, the building was carefully renovated in 2023 to restore its original plaster walls, lending counter, and reading room details. Together with the adjoining Main Building and Auditorium, it forms one of Aichi Prefecture's finest groupings of registered modern educational architecture.

The Main Building of Taki Gakuen in Konan City, Aichi Prefecture, is a two-story reinforced concrete schoolhouse completed in 1926 as the main hall of Taki Practical Business School. Designed by Murase Kuninosuke and built by Nagoya's Ando-gumi, its central clock tower has long been a beloved landmark of the surrounding town. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2001, it stands as a rare example of a still-active school classroom building recognized at the national level. Interior visits are available by advance reservation through the school's Cultural Property Office.

Taki Shrine's 1672 main hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, is a one-bay structure of just 2.4 square metres, registered in 2013 and set within a protective covering hall.

A mid-Meiji earthen kura in Inuyama's old castle town, the Takino Family Storehouse shows namako-kabe walls and heavy earthen fire doors, registered in 2004.

Ishuntei is the 1934 sukiya main house of Nagoya businessman Furukawa Tamesaburo, projecting over its garden on posts. Registered in 2018, it is open to visitors.

A small Nagoya gate of knotted logs and earthen walls, with flower-tracery doors. Registered in 2018, it opens collector Furukawa Tamesaburo's former sukiya home.

A tiny cedar-bark privy in a Nagoya tea garden, built never to be used. This decorative sand privy is one of six structures registered as cultural property in 2018.

In a Nagoya garden, the small tea house Chisokuan reworks the National Treasure tea room Joan, adding a trapezoidal alcove and a low host's-seat ceiling.

Nagoya's Tamesaburō Memorial Hall East Gate is a small sukiya gate, registered as a national cultural property in 2018, opening onto a garden villa and tea house.

A tiny cedar-bark waiting arbor in the garden of Nagoya's Tamesaburo Memorial Hall, set along the path to the teahouse Chisoku-an and registered in 2018.

Built in 1902 in an old Aichi cotton town, the pale-blue wooden Chita Okada Simple Post Office was Chita's first registered cultural property and still sells stamps.

Chobo-ji Kuri in Nagoya is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of 1828, its date and carpenter named on the ridge tag, older than the main hall beside it.

Chōboji's main gate in Nagoya is a late-18th-century wooden yakuimon, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property at the Zen temple where Mujū wrote the Shasekishū.

The main hall of Chobo-ji in Nagoya is a registered hojo-style building rebuilt in 1894 after the Great Nobi Earthquake, at a Zen temple founded by the monk Muju.

Built in 1887, the saimonden and corridor of Chiryu Shrine in Aichi link its halls under one cypress-bark roof, a rare Owari-style layout registered in 2014.

The Ubagami-sha at Chiryu-jinja in Aichi is a vermilion Meiji-period auxiliary shrine to a mother goddess of childbirth, registered for its fine carving.

Chiryū-an, a Meiji-era tea house relocated to Chiryū Shrine in 1968, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property prized for sukiya touches such as bark-edged posts.

At Chiryū Shrine in Aichi, this 1954 cypress-bark worship hall fronts a rare Owari-style layout in Mikawa, registered in 2014 near the shrine's older pagoda.

Chiryu Shrine's Taisho-era offering hall, registered in 2014, stands before the main hall in a rare Owari-style row of sanctuaries, near a pagoda rebuilt in 1509.

The 1831 main hall of Chiryu Shrine in Aichi is a cypress-bark sanctuary beside the old Tokaido, registered, not designated, near a famed pagoda and festival.

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