Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An early Meiji two-storey retirement cottage at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, with a sukiya-style six-mat room opening onto a courtyard.

The tiled yakuimon gate and flanking barns of around 1872 at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, forming the dignified frontage of a shipowner's home.

The main house of the Uchida Saheiji branch family in Utsumi, Minamichita, Aichi, built around 1872 and sharing much of its plan with the main Uchida house.

An early Meiji openwork fence of round-bamboo lattice at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, framing the retirement cottage's garden. Registered.

A two-storey storehouse of around 1872 at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, standing on a street corner with plastered and clapboard walls.

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.