Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Iimori Sake Brewery Main House in Kashima, Saga, is a late Taisho brewer's house on the Tara road, plastered over its posts in the east, posts exposed in the west.
The gate of Ioji in Karatsu, Saga, built in 1821 in front of the main hall, is a sturdy gabled gate with a cloud-patterned strut between its rear posts.
The main hall of Ioji in Karatsu, Saga, built in 1778, is a hip-and-gable hall with a six-room plan, a standard example of a Soto Zen temple hall of the Edo period.
The Ushizu Red Brick Hall, a mid-Meiji brick warehouse of a leading merchant house in the post town of Ushizu, Saga, is loved as a symbol of the once-thriving town.
The former Tanakamaru residence in Ushizu, Saga, built in the early Taisho era for a Kyushu business leader, hides a delicate sukiya interior behind its grand front.
The Otanikawa Tunnel in Karatsu, Saga, is a brick flood tunnel of 1911, 92 metres long and dug by the local people, its portals shaped like torii gates.
The Okada Saburosuke Atelier at Saga Castle, a painter's studio of about 1908 moved from Tokyo, keeps the room where he taught women painters and is free to visit.
The Ganshoji Temple Main Entrance in Saga, built in 1934, fronts a 24.7-metre gabled wing with a grand hipped porch, curved-top windows and a column-free hall.
Built in 1934, the Ganshoji Temple Great Hall in Saga uses a Western king post truss to roof one 80-mat room, with a Buddhist altar and alcoves at its north end.
The Ganshoji Temple Kihinshitsu Guest Hall in Saga, said to have received the domain lord, pairs a ten-mat study with a twenty-mat room, fine transoms and lacquer.
The Ganshoji Temple Main Gate in Saga, dated 1912 by the temple, is a 4.6-metre four-legged gate with scroll-carved beams, openwork doors and flower lattice sides.
Rebuilt in 1768 on a 1696 stone base, the Ganshoji Temple Bell Tower in Saga is said to have rung the hours for the castle town. It still sounds on New Year's Eve.
Built in 1702, the Ganshoji Temple Main Hall in Saga is among Kyushu's largest and oldest Shin halls: plain eaves outside, carved transoms and a long beam within.
A c.1909 main house in the hills of Saga City with two hipped-and-gabled roofs set at right angles, a formal shikidai entrance and an altar room in wiped lacquer.
The oldest building on a Saga hill estate, an early Meiji storeroom with a formal tatami room that also lodged the village youth group. Registered in 2024.
An early Taishō pond fed by a channel on a Saga hill estate, held in U-shaped granite walls with a concrete footbridge, registered in 2024 for its fine stonework.
Early Taishō granite gateposts with edokiri corners and 55 meters of curving stone wall enclosing an old family estate in the hills of Saga City, registered in 2024.
Mid-Meiji earthen-walled sake storehouse in Hizen-Hamashuku, Kashima, Saga, with work floor, rice-washing area and koji room; the core of the Kuretake brewery.
Twin gabled workshops of the early Showa era at Koeigiku Sake Brewery in Ogi, Saga, where rice was washed and steamed over a cauldron sunk in the floor. Listed 2021.
A tapering English-bond brick chimney about 11 metres tall, with a four-step moulded cap and iron-braced corners, serving the kettle room of Koeigiku Sake Brewery.
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