Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An 1888 barn on the stone wall of the Arai headman estate in Hidaka, Saitama. White plaster, boarding and barred windows echo a gatehouse under upturned eaves.

A mid-Meiji clay storehouse for household goods on the Arai headman estate in Hidaka, Saitama, with a floating gabled roof, gable-end door and large lean-to.

The Showa Storehouse of the former Kagamiyama sake brewery in Kawagoe, built in 1931 with drip ledges and cedar posts, now serves Saitama sake in a tasting room.

The Taisho Storehouse of the former Kagamiyama sake brewery in Kawagoe, a 22-metre storehouse with a two-tier roof, once bottled sake and now houses a restaurant.

The Meiji Storehouse of the former Kagamiyama sake brewery in Kawagoe, a 21-metre storehouse with a great south gable, held the koji room and now sells souvenirs.

A 1930 stone wall about 30 m long on the north edge of a Chichibu silk wholesaler's lot: coursed tuff ashlar on a cobbled base with an arched side gate.

A 1930 meisen silk wholesaler's shop and house on a Chichibu corner: pent roof, bracketed eaves, fine lattice doors. Registered 2002; now Chichibu Furusatokan.

Smallest of three 1930 earthen storehouses at a Chichibu silk wholesaler's: 3.5 by 2 ken, plain eaves, weatherboarded base, cobbled footing and a trussed roof.

Largest of three 1930 earthen storehouses at a Chichibu silk wholesaler's, 5 by 2.5 ken, set at right angles to Storehouse B. Its storage shelves survive inside.

A 1930 earthen storehouse at a Chichibu silk wholesaler's, 5 by 2 ken, with clay-packed double doors on its entrance and every window. It stands beside Storehouse A.

The main house of the Former Koshundo Clinic in Minano, Saitama, is a late Edo house where a doctor-poet opened his surgery in 1926 and the poet Kaneko Tota grew up.

The storehouse of the Former Koshundo Clinic in Minano, Saitama, built in 1934, has stepped plaster doors and a fan relief on its gable, and once held medical gear.

The 1934 workshop of Saitama's textile testing station in Chichibu joins a sawtooth shed and a gabled dye shed in a clapboarded L, now part of Chichibu Meisenkan.

The 1930 warehouse of Saitama's textile testing station in Chichibu, now Chichibu Meisenkan, has a ventilation roof and a corridor whose roof wraps three sides.

The 1930 office of Saitama's textile testing station in Chichibu, now Chichibu Meisenkan, pairs an Ōya-stone base with an outsized Wright-style porch.

The earliest of three Oya stone storehouses at a Kumagaya headman's estate, built about 1914 on a raised stone base, with five rooms and underfloor storage inside.

A late Edo yakuimon gate, 2.8 meters wide, at a headman's estate in Kumagaya, set between a stone storehouse and a plastered range under a curved gabled roof.

A late Edo farmhouse in Kumagaya with a broad earth-floored work area, a four-room grid and a raised guest room for high-ranking visitors, open as a museum.

A small late Edo udegimon gate, 1.5 meters wide, guarding the main garden of a Kumagaya headman's estate, with doubled bracket arms, curved rafters and plank doors.

A two-story Oya stone rice store of about 1920 at a Kumagaya headman's estate, with timber roof trusses, an inward-facing door and two iron-shuttered upper windows.

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