Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A missionary's house of 1927 at the centre of the Jiaien welfare campus in Kumamoto, with a double pentagonal gable and a large south dormer. Listed in 2007.

A temple main hall of 1926 in Yunomae, Kumamoto, Western throughout: mansard roof, pointed-arch windows, trussed roof. Said to be the head priest's son's design.

A Meiji-period timber main building in Tamamura, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. It once served as both a house and as a doctor's very own surgery in it too.

A Meiji-period main house in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Its grounds meet the main street, yet the house is unseen from it; the family's looms stood elsewhere.

An Edo-period storehouse in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. An inscription on its window grille dates it to 1836, the oldest in the area.

A Meiji-period main house in Manno, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. Eaves run round all four sides, and one formal room also serves as the altar room there.

A thatched Meiji-period farmhouse at Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. Moved from a mountain hamlet in 1990, its plan divides into three parts along its length.

A Showa-period privy at Tano, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. Just 7 square metres, it has a hip-and-gable roof and a round window in the refined tea-house manner.

A Meiji-period town house at Kashima, Saga Prefecture, Japan. Its walls are plastered white over hidden posts in the local style, with ebony in its reception room.

A Taisho-period school building in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Its own roof over there was given over to use as a playground even so even now today.

A Showa-period timber hall in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Its own name over there is simply that of the architect who had designed it all even so now.

A three-storeyed Taisho timber building in the Ginzan hot-spring town, Yamagata, Japan. Its ground-floor bath faces the street; its river verandas shape the town.

An Edo-period oil storehouse in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Of its three rooms only one has an upper floor; the rest rise open to the roof.

An Edo-period salt storehouse in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Only its western room held salt, yet that one room gives the whole building its name.

A Meiji-period reception room in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Its record gives two storeys and one; built to match the stores, it now serves as a canteen.

An Edo-period document storehouse in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Two other buildings on the grounds are placed by reference to this small store.

An Edo-period shop storehouse in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Shop below and rooms above, it was drawn back whole in 1960 to widen the road.

A Showa-period road tunnel in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The record over there grants its own plainness first before quite stating its value even now.

A Showa-period timber goma hall at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It was itself built out of the old members of a much older hall there today.

A Meiji-period timber Jizo hall at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Its own front bays over there are each fitted in quite different ways today.