Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1931 Kawagoe house with convex irimoya roofs, a coffered formal room, and a corridor splitting entrance from living space. Registered in 2014; exterior view only.

A 1.7-metre timber gate of about 1931 on Kawagoe's Hachiman-dori, with a gently convex copper gable roof and slatted wing walls. Registered 2014; street view only.

This two-metre gate of 1930 in Chichibu is a registered cultural property, with adzed naguri surfaces on its posts and a single tier of widely spaced rafters.

Designed in 1930 by Chichibu-born architect Yamada Jun, this registered house crosses gabled roofs at differing heights over a Western exterior and Japanese rooms.

A 1934 scratch-tile bank in Gyoda, Saitama, registered in 2005, built for the Oshi Savings Bank with decorated cast stone and few openings on the windy west side.

Monma Elementary School Slide in Miyashiro, Saitama: a 1926 concrete slide, 3.1 m high and 6.8 m long, with a polished artificial-stone chute. Registered in 2020.

Built around 1930 on a corner of Chichibu's Banba-dori, Yasudaya raises a mortar parapet with a cornice and acanthus panels. Registered 2004, still a butcher's shop.

The round kindergarten building in Warabi, Saitama, designed by Sakamoto Kanao in 1963, rings a central playroom with wedge-shaped classrooms under a roof terrace.

The mid-Meiji main house of the Akai Family Residence in Iga faces the gate gable-first. Its plan, with two projecting wings, follows the earlier samurai house.

A three-mat early Showa tea room in the Akai Family Residence garden in Iga, with a full-height entrance, a round window and a smoked-bamboo alcove post.

A two-story storehouse of 1895 at the Akai Family Residence in Iga, set on a cut-stone base, with a plastered doorframe and a small canopy on carved brackets.

Tile-capped earthen walls of 1895 linking the gate and storehouse of the Akai Family Residence in Iga, with a small south gate and tall inuyarai along the street.

A late Edo-period gatehouse on Nakanotachimachi-dori in Iga: 15 meters long, hip-and-gable pantile roof, clapboard and plaster front. A rare samurai-house survivor.

The Juenro of Asakichi Ryokan in Ise, registered in 2005, pairs 3-storey and 2-storey blocks, with a 21-mat room at the top. Geisha reached it by an outer gallery.

The Storehouse of Asakichi Ryokan in Ise, registered in 2005, is a 3-storey dozo whose ridge follows a bending lane. Its door opens level with the second floor.

The Main Building of Asakichi Ryokan in Ise, registered in 2005, is a late Edo inn on a slope. Its front door opens on the third floor and its roofs step uphill.

The Front Storehouse of Asakichi Ryokan in Ise, registered in 2005, is a small dozo across the lane, linked to the inn's third floor by a corridor over the lane.

The Asake River Sabo Dam T11-1 in Komono, Mie, a mortared-stone erosion-control dam of 1922, is said to be the first of its kind in Mie, with an arched opening.

The Asake River Sabo Dam T11-2 in Komono, Mie, a dry-stone erosion-control dam of 1922 built of boulders up to 2 metres across, shows the skill of its builders.

Built in 1895 and registered in 2014, the Asanokan Entrance Wing fronts Ise's Futami inn row with a hipped-and-gabled pantile roof and a projecting gabled porch.

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