Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Registered in 2009, the 1954 South Building of Shirakawa Elementary School in Kameyama, Mie, is a 58-metre timber wing whose dormer gable fronts a working school.

The 1909 Renaissance-style brick museum of the Grand Shrine of Ise, designed by Katayama Tokuma and registered in 1998, with terracotta walls and a dome.

The 1905 agricultural museum of the Grand Shrine of Ise, designed by Katayama Tokuma and registered in 1998, with a Japanese exterior and Western framing.

A 1909 timber office at Matsusaka Castle ruins with a copper karahafu porch in daibutsuyo style and a Western reading room, used since 1988 as the Oshokaku tea room.

A 1909 four-legged timber gate, 2.7 meters wide, at Matsusaka Castle ruins, with a gabled tile roof, wicket doors and beam ends carved in the daibutsuyo style.

A small 2-storey earthen storehouse of 1909 at Matsusaka Castle ruins, with brick footings and lime-plaster walls under clapboarding, linked to the office.

A tile-roofed timber wall of 1909, 11 meters in 9 bays, running from the society's office to Motoori Norinaga's house at Matsusaka Castle ruins, with lattice above.

Daiosaki Lighthouse in Shima, Mie: a 23-metre round concrete tower lit in 1927, with a fan-shaped colonnade and classical entrance at its foot. Open to climb.

Daiosaki Lighthouse Gateposts and Wall in Shima, Mie: a 1927 concrete wall that bends for 105.3 m around the lighthouse, with gateposts in washed mortar.

A late-Meiji stone wall 8.1 metres high on the Kushida River cliff at the Tanaka compound in Hase, Matsusaka, laid in river cobbles and carrying a guest pavilion.

A 15-metre earthen wall of 1902 linking the Tanaka main house and east storehouse in Hase, Matsusaka, its white plaster on head-sized river cobbles laid diagonally.

An 1900 two-storey barn facing the Tanaka main house across the old Wakayama Kaido in Hase, Matsusaka, with earth floors at both ends and a tall open void inside.

An 1896 townhouse of fine timber on the Wakayama Kaido in Hase, Matsusaka, with deep eaves over lattices, mushiko windows and bays; the family museum opens part.

A late-Edo thatched farmhouse in Mitake, Misugi, Tsu, with a hip-and-gable roof and a southern Iga floor plan, registered for its setting among the Mitake cherries.

A 1912 storehouse behind the Tanaka main house in Hase, Matsusaka, with a refined sukiya-style room in front and a namako tile skirt kept for the south face alone.

A 27-metre earthen wall of 1911 beside the Tanaka main house in Hase, Matsusaka, its river-cobble base giving way at the road end to dressed stone and an ogre tile.

A Taisho-era barn on the Tanaka compound in Hase, Matsusaka, set back from the old highway, with a plastered front, a lattice bay and a mushiko window upstairs.

A 1905 two-storey storehouse beside the Tanaka main house in Hase, Matsusaka, its road side finished with a stone base, plaster, hooded windows and drip moulding.

A 24-metre earthen wall of 1905 behind the Tanaka east storehouse in Hase, Matsusaka, backing the garden, its river-cobble base built up high along its north half.

An 1883 sukiya-style guest pavilion of the Tanaka family in Hase, Matsusaka, its two wings stepped along a high stone wall and opened to the Kushida River view.

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