Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1927 rural clinic at Ouma in Toyokawa, Aichi, registered in 2004. A porte cochere and name board sit on its symmetrical west front. Exterior viewing only.

A concrete washing fixture of 1927 in the front garden of a rural clinic at Ouma in Toyokawa, Aichi. Patients washed here before entering. Registered 2004.

The 1927 inpatient wing of a rural clinic at Ouma in Toyokawa, Aichi, registered in 2004. Three six-mat rooms and board verandas sit behind a Western front.

A 22-square-metre annexe in an early Meiji shipowner's compound at Utsumi, Aichi, pairing a tea-room window and suspended alcove with a storehouse loading floor.

A pantiled yakuimon gate 2.2 metres across, flanked by two low barns along the street edge of an 1872 shipowner's compound at Utsumi, Aichi, registered in 2018.

In Shinshiro, Aichi, this earthen storehouse held the ledgers of East Mikawa's first private bank. Its mid-Meiji black-plaster doors survive by the 1925 hall.

Built in 1925 for eastern Mikawa's first private bank, this concrete landmark in Shinshiro is now the Horaikan cafe and a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

A 1929 reinforced-concrete water tower at the former Okada Clinic in Chita, Aichi, stored well water for the clinic and home before piped water reached the town.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Okada: a small 1931 storehouse from an army doctor's clinic in the historic home of Chita cotton, near Nagoya.

Built in 1929 by a retired army surgeon, the Former Okada Clinic in Chita joins a tiled roof to a Western truss and colored-glass transoms. Registered 2015.

A 1929 doctor's clinic in Okada, an old cotton town in Chita. A registered cultural property of mixed Western and Japanese design, now a working weaving workshop.

In Chita's old cotton town of Okada, this small 1929 storehouse served a retired army surgeon's clinic. Its street facade mimics cut stone; registered in 2015.

A registered 1929 wall in Chita, Aichi: 33 meters of arched reinforced concrete on a stone base, framing a doctor's compound within an old cotton-town streetscape.

A tiny 1929 hoanden in the grounds of Sanjo Shrine, Ichinomiya: concrete shaped like wood, built to hold the Emperor's portrait. It survived postwar demolition.

Near Nagoya, the north high wall of the former Kato residence doubles as a side eave of the main house, with lattice windows above for light. Registered in 1999.

The Former Kato Residence main house in Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a registered timber home of a Meiji landlord family, now used for the city's reminiscence therapy.

The Former Katō Family Residence Middle Gate, Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a plain Meiji yakuimon dividing the garden of a wealthy landowner's compound. Free to visit.

An imposing two-story earthen storehouse of the wealthy Katō landowners near Nagoya, this Registered Cultural Property now serves Kitanagoya's reminiscence center.

Early-Meiji timber gatehouse at the Former Kato Family Residence in Kitanagoya, Aichi, built for a landlord. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, open free.

An early Showa reception wing in Kitanagoya, Aichi, linked to the main house by a covered passage. Ten and eight mat rooms, a tea room with a convex roof.