Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An 1873 nagayamon gatehouse in Ota, Gunma, with a store, a silkworm room between two gateways and a west gate kept shut, matched to the main house entrance.

An 1885 clothing storehouse on a headman's homestead in Ota, Gunma, set at right angles to the north store so the pair frame the garden behind the main house.

Concrete office building of about 1921 in Kiryu, Gunma, built by a weaving firm, with a stone-effect base, white tiles and Secession ornament over the door.

Concrete gravity sabo dam of 1951 at the head of the Karasu River in Takasaki, Gunma, 67 metres long and 18 metres high, faced in masonry with water pouring over it.

An open-sided well shelter of 1935 behind the Bathhouse on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, its central well ringed by river stones, serving a large household.

A mid-Meiji household shrine in the corner of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma: a tiny zelkova nagare-zukuri shrine with a bracketed porch and railings.

The east-facing main gate of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma: a mid-Meiji yakuimon of solid zelkova with a flat outer ceiling and a coffered inner one.

A mid-Meiji two-storey storehouse in the southwest corner of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, with a sheltered entrance, shuttered gables and molded eaves.

A long mid-Meiji shed on the west side of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, open on one side, earth-walled on three, to store timber thinned on site.

A mid-Meiji two-storey pawn storehouse on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, whose tatami front room under the eaves shows how pledged goods were received.

A late Edo farmhouse in Fujioka, Gunma, raised in part to two storeys in early Meiji; the 218 m² Main House shows how local farmhouses evolved. Registered in 2001.

A small 1935 gate facing the Villa on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, with a melon-motif openwork panel, spaced rafters and a gently curved gabled roof.

At about 44.9 meters, the longest structure on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma: a tiled wall of plaster over boards, rebuilt after the 1910 flood.

A mid-Meiji tatami room beside the Great Gate in Fujioka, Gunma, plastered and battened outside, open-framed inside, with a barred window watching the gateway.

A 38.6-meter inner wall of 1935 on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, plain in design but precisely built, absorbing the slope of the ground along its east run.

A mid-Meiji grain storehouse on the east side of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, with plaster walls, battened boards and two barred windows beside the gate.

Built in mid-Meiji when the Kawabata family grew rich on silk, this 131 m² two-storey guest pavilion in Fujioka, Gunma, is a fine modern Japanese-style building.

A two-storey early Meiji storehouse on the east front of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, closed and plastered outside, with an open lean-to on the inner side.

At 2.9 meters the shortest structure on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma: a sukiya-style inner wall of boards, gray plaster and open latticework.

A long, low mid-Meiji storehouse on the south side of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, hipped at one end, gabled at the other, with a brick lining inside.

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