Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A cotton storehouse of about 1914 in Okada, Chita, with thick earthen walls, a deep covered forespace across the front and windows only on the upper south face.

Registered in 2024, the Former Nakano Hanroku Residence Main House sits on the Handa Canal, an 1889 merchant house with a double-width alcove and a boat-plank fence.

Rebuilt in 1913 on the site of the Okoshi post station inn wrecked by the Nobi earthquake of 1891, this Ichinomiya house and its rear parlor were registered in 2002.

A twelve-metre boundary wall of 1913 in Tsushima, Aichi. Lapped boarding faces the street, split bamboo the garden, and a low wicket door opens near its east end.

A small two-storey earthen storehouse in Tsushima, Aichi, entered from inside the main house rather than the yard. Its black boarded walls held the family archive.

A timber two-storey house of 1912 to 1914 in Tsushima, Aichi. Daily rooms sit downstairs and formal reception rooms upstairs, inverting the plan of an Edo townhouse.

A single-bay bracket-arm gate in Tsushima, Aichi, two metres wide under a tiled gable. Stone struts replace the timber ones usually set behind its posts.

A nineteen-metre brick boundary wall finished in January 1913 in Tsushima, Aichi. Laid in English bond with buttresses every two metres, it was built to stop fire.

Honda Tadatsugu built this Spanish-style house in Tokyo; Okazaki City rebuilt it beside Higashi Park in 2012 and it gained registered status in 2014. Free to enter.

A large early Meiji townhouse on the old Mino Road at Okoshi post town, built for a Kiso River ferry overseer. Its low tsushi-nikai floor and lattice front survive.

Three storehouses linked in a row behind a merchant house at Okoshi post town, raised between the late Edo period and the post-war years, with white plaster gables.

The newest of the nine Yamashige buildings, raised in 1950. Inside, a room for applying overglaze decoration to ceramics survives, north of the Middle Warehouse.

Built in 1914, the old office carries a tiled irimoya roof on a Western truss. It once faced the old road and keeps traces of its merchant counter inside.

Built in 1947, this office supported the firm's postwar export growth. Facing the new road east, it has a plastered reception room and an entry porch.

A two-storey plastered building of 1914. Its ground floor takes the workshop form called a moro, where ceramics were boxed for shipment, a working storehouse.

Built in 1903, the smallest and oldest of the storehouses. Its base wears namako tilework and a large ridge tile crowns it, dense with detail for its size.

The firm's Middle Warehouse, its king-post truss left exposed inside. Used in the electric-kiln era, its build year differs between sources, as the article notes.

Built in 1889, the oldest survivor. As the Kato family annex it lodged guests, with royalty named in local records; its black south wall anchors the streetscape.

A wall running about 28 metres along the front. Its southern base is granite in a tortoiseshell pattern, finished in black plaster, paired with the annex behind.

Built in the early Showa era to store ceramics, roofed by a large king-post truss that opens a column-free floor. It stands north of the New Shed on the slope.

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