Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A 1920 wooden pastor's residence at Annaka Church in Gunma, whose 8- and 10-mat tatami rooms are said to be from a former Annaka domain retainer's mansion.
At Annaka Church in Gunma sits Gientei, a 1935 wooden study built for pastor Kashiwagi Gien, whose 459-issue monthly opposed Japan's wars and empire until 1936.
Completed in 1919, 30 years after Niijima Jo's death, this Oya stone church in Annaka, Gunma, has buttresses, a bell tower and a vaulted ceiling. Registered 2004.
A 1954 timber missionary house at Annaka Church in Gunma, with clapboard below, mortar above, a bay window and 3 chimneys in the Meiji-era manner. Registered 2004.
Built in 1930 on land given by a weaving-mill owner, this wooden church in Kiryu, Gunma, is the oldest church building in the city. Registered in 2024.
An 1897 timber chapel in Isesaki, Gunma, with a gabled nave, a half-hipped 2-storey wing, a king-post truss and a simple half-timbered porch. Registered 2008.
A timber nursery school built in 1950 by Shimamura Church in Isesaki, Gunma, renovated in 1953 and extended in 1954. Registered with the church chapel in 2008.
Built in 1877 in Kiryu, Gunma, this registered gate and 19-metre plastered wall are all a weaving family showed the street. Private home, viewable from the lane.
Completed in 1955 above Haruna Shrine in Takasaki, this 69-metre erosion-control dam is faced in diagonally coursed stone. Free to visit, five minutes on foot.
This late Edo gatehouse of the Shinden honjin at Nakayama-juku in Takayama, Gunma, served as the local post office from 1873 to 1966. A rare early rural example.
At Ōana Onsen in Minakami, Gunma, this bath sits deep in a tunnel hewn into the bedrock, where Moralogy's founder Hiroike Chikuro convalesced. It was listed in 2025.
At Ōana in Minakami, this changing room has a double cedar-bark roof and an exposed king-post truss. Hiroike Chikuro died at this site in 1938; it was listed in 2025.
At Tanigawa in Minakami stands a shrine of about 7.3 square metres enshrining Amaterasu, clad in cedar bark and built in 1936. It was listed in 2025.
At Tanigawa Onsen in Minakami stands Reitaku-kan, a single-storey retreat with a bath on its east end. Hiroike Chikuro stayed here in his final years; listed in 2025.
Studio-home built in 1948 by the painter Kondo Yoshio beside the Hirose River in Maebashi, Gunma, with an International Style front; a small art museum since 1997.
A Meiji shelter of 1.9 square meters at the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, with a flowing shrine roof over an Edo-period Inari shrine and two stone shrines.
A two-story Meiji retirement house beside the Fujiu main house in Kiryu, Gunma, with a 14-mat upstairs hall and its own bath wing. Registered 2007; private.
An early-Meiji storehouse in Kiryu, Gunma, linked to the Fujiu main house through a ten-mat room, with white plaster walls and fireproof window doors. Private.
A 5.8-meter Meiji bracket-arm gate on the south side of the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, moved whole in 1973 when the road was widened. Visible from the street.
The oldest building on the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma: a late-Edo thatched farmhouse with a four-room plan, guest room and tiled eaves. Registered 2007; private.
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