Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An 1866 two-storey clay-walled shop in Shibukawa, Gunma, its polished black plaster front facing the road; registered in 2000 as hard to reproduce. Exterior only.

An 1897 storehouse at the centre of the Horiguchi compound in Shibukawa, Gunma, with a 6-bay white plaster wall on a tiled base and a covered work area on its west.

Reinforced-concrete church of 1932 in Maebashi, Gunma, with twin towers square below and octagonal above and a vaulted nave; it survived the wartime air raid.

A large late Edo townhouse on Route 353 in Nakanojo, Gunma, once the official home of a headman family and briefly a district office; registered in 2001.

A two-story early Meiji white-plaster storehouse at the Machida estate in Nakanojo, Gunma, noted for banded walls and a layered plaster cornice; registered in 2001.

An 83-meter Meiji-era roofed board fence, open beneath its ridge, enclosing the west and north sides of the L-shaped Machida estate in Nakanojo; registered in 2001.

A small, plain early Meiji earthen storehouse behind the Machida main house in Nakanojo, Gunma, on a fieldstone base under a separate roof; registered in 2001.

An early Meiji yakuimon gate, 2.4 meters wide, on Route 353 in Nakanojo, Gunma, whose street-side roof is laid in stepped courses; registered in 2001.

Art Deco rapid filtration house of 1932 at the Motojuku plant in Kiryu, Gunma, with a symmetrical stepped front and British Candy filters still in operation.

Junction well of 1932 at the Motojuku plant in Kiryu, Gunma, gathering groundwater for the pumps, 11.1 metres deep and ringed by a low stone-effect circular wall.

Concrete regulating reservoir of 1932 at the Motojuku plant in Kiryu, Gunma, 15.2 by 21.1 metres and 3 metres deep, with evenly spaced vents and a stone stair.

Pump room of 1932 at the Motojuku plant in Kiryu, Gunma, with scratch-tile walls and strong verticals outside and Art Deco lamps and brass rails inside.

A c.1924 timber wall, 19 m long, from the gate to the main house door at Kiryu's Morihide silk mill, parting lane and garden, with lattice windows in alternate bays.

Built around 1924 as home and office of Kiryu silk weaver Morihide, with a counting room, Western parlor and tatami rooms opening into a 28-mat hall for cloth.

A c.1951 three-story store at Kiryu's Morihide silk mill, built for raw silk on the site of an older kura, with two floors of storage topped by an 8-mat tatami room.

A c.1924 two-story store behind the Morishima home at Kiryu's Morihide silk mill, entered from inside the house, used for finished cloth, with pebbled mortar walls.

A c.1924 timber gate, 2.7 m wide, at the south end of Kiryu's Morihide silk mill, with pass doors in its wings and 46 m of board and faintly purple concrete fence.

A c.1924 dye house at the Morihide works in Kiryu, topped with a raised vent roof for steam; it now holds indigo vats and hand looms as the museum workshop room.

A c.1924 dormitory for weavers at the Morihide works in Kiryu: an irimoya-roofed block with two ten-mat rooms and a gabled porch, later a processing workshop.

A c.1924 weavers' dormitory at the Morihide works in Kiryu, moved on rollers in 1981 and refitted with a slanted lean-to as the Orimono Sankokan Yukari reception.

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