Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Koji Chamber in Matsusaka, built around 1893, is a half-sunken fermenting room coated in plaster roof and all, where koji is still made.

The Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Shop and Main House in Matsusaka, rebuilt around 1893, shows a black plaster front with a lattice, a bay window and mushiko-mado slits.

The Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Tool Storehouse in Matsusaka, dated to 1855 by brush inscriptions, is the only building of the koji shop that came through the 1893 fire.

Selling the same pilgrim medicine since 1676, this early Meiji merchant house on Ise's Geku approach keeps its curved gable, ribbed boarding and latticed upper bay.

Attached to the main hall of a Suzuka temple, this small early Meiji shoin was named by the haiku poet Yamaguchi Seishi, who held verse gatherings in its four rooms.

Townhouse of 1868 on the old Tokaido in Ishiyakushi, Suzuka, Mie, where the poet Sasaki Nobutsuna was born in 1872; open since 1970 as part of his memorial museum.

Clay-walled storehouse of 1875 at the birthplace of poet Sasaki Nobutsuna in Ishiyakushi, Suzuka, Mie, part of his memorial museum and the old post-town scene.

This early Meiji retaining wall in Matsusaka, Mie, runs 48 metres in undressed river cobbles, with a recess collecting spring water. Registered in 2013.

Just 7.2 square metres, this early Showa tool store in Matsusaka, Mie, was registered in 2013 for the way it closes a former medicine dealer's walled compound.

An early Meiji house on the Wakayama Kaido in Matsusaka, Mie, this 172-square-metre home of a medicine dealer was listed as a Cultural Property in 2013.

Set on the cobble wall along the east edge of a Matsusaka compound in Mie, this Meiji plastered wall runs 16 metres, its ridge stepping down midway. Listed 2013.

Kasetsuen, the 1922 detached reception wing of the Shimozu Residence in Isshinden, Tsu, has a raised alcove platform and a four-mat tea room, En'an. Listed 2014.

The outer waiting arbour of the Shimozu Residence in Tsu, Mie, covers only 8 square metres, pairs a wall bench with a free one, and is framed in logs. Listed 2014.

The Shimozu gatehouse in Isshinden, Tsu, faces the street before Senjuji. Its lattices and slatted windows mark a late-Edo temple retainer's home. Listed 2014.

Registered in 2011, Jakushoji Kannon Hall in Ise buries its timber frame under thick storehouse plaster, and shelters a Kannon image tied to Senhime's memory.

Dated to 1839 by its ridge tag, Jakushoji Konpira Hall in Ise packs full temple carpentry into seventeen square metres. A dragon covers its mirror ceiling.

Jakushoji Gate in Ise was raised around 1797 by Gessen, the painter-monk who gave his fees to the poor. Its zelkova frame carries almost no carving at all.

Built around 1935 at Juryoji temple in Kuwana, Mie, this 16-square-metre concrete hall sets a vaulted roof above a Japanese cusped gable carried on fluted columns.

A one-bay concrete bell tower of about 1935 at Juryoji temple in Kuwana, Mie. Arches span its posts below a pyramidal roof, and washed aggregate patterns its faces.

The North Building of Shirakawa Elementary School in Kameyama, Mie, is a 1954 timber wing joined to its twin by three corridors across a courtyard. Registered 2009.

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