Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The late Taisho office of the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, set on a stone wall with big windows and an arched canopy. Registered in 2011 and open as a rest space.

A two-story Meiji storehouse beside the thatched main house at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, once a miso store and now the largest gallery on the site.

A two-story Meiji rice store on the lane at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, its posts and beams left visible in white plaster walls; now a gallery open to visitors.

A single-story Meiji building on the lane at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, said to have been a stable, gabled at one end and hipped at the other; now a gallery.

A late Edo multi-chamber climbing kiln at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, rising 9.6 meters over 34 meters of hillside, used until the Showa 40s and free to view.

A Meiji guest wing at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, with two eight-mat rooms and formal alcove fittings, linking the thatched main house to the Taisho villa.

A Taisho retirement house at the west end of the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, with refined tatami rooms and a bay-windowed Western parlor beside the entrance.

Three gates and 106 meters of earthen wall around the residence of the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, from a formal four-legged gate to a copper-roofed inner gate.

The well shelter and board fence of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, shelter a stone-curbed well and divide the inner court from the garden. Late Edo; closed.

The storehouse of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, rises two storeys against a wall on the line of Ueno Castle's lost outer moat. Late Edo; registered in 2014.

The main house of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, is a late Edo home built for sub-vassals of the Todo Shinshichiro house. Registered 2014; closed to visitors.

The detached wing of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, dates from early Taisho. Its alcove, shelving and writing bay show how a samurai house changed after 1868.

The front storehouse of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, measures three metres square. Small as it is, it anchors the street frontage of a late Edo warrior plot.

The gate and earthen wall of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, form its street face. A one-bay bracket-arm gate, 1.8 m wide, marks a sub-vassal's modest rank.

The Nakaroku Shop in Shima, Mie, built in 1929 before the gates of Izawa-no-Miya, turns its gable to the shrine and opens its upper floor with large windows.

In Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, an earthen shop storehouse joins a timber kuramae whose upper floor holds a sukiya tea room, giving a watchtower profile. Registered 2013.

A wooden single-storey house in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, grown in three Meiji phases. Its west gable is plain, its east end hipped-and-gabled. Registered in 2013.

The smallest of four registered buildings in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, at 8.5 square metres. A cobble base, board and plaster band shape its corner view. Listed 2013.

A late Meiji timber reception room with an attached earthen storehouse in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie. It ends a five-building frontage of plaster and board. Listed 2013.

The front gate of the Hattori Residence in Yokkaichi, Mie, built in about 1937, is a four-legged gate with egg-yolk walls, a cedar dado and a transom of umoregi.