Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The main house of the Hattori family in Yokkaichi, Mie, built in 1934, pairs a swelling roof and cedar-bark walls with sukiya, shoin-style and Western rooms.
The storehouse of the Hattori Residence in Yokkaichi, Mie, built in about 1936, keeps the old form but uses modern mortar finishes and a braced truss roof frame.
The barn of the Hattori Residence in Yokkaichi, Mie, built in about 1938, was planned with a student's room and matches the main house in roof and cedar-bark walls.
Fukuoka Soy Sauce Store in Iga, Mie: a working brewery of 1904 that still presses soy sauce with a giraffe press and cedar vats. Tours are offered all year.
Furusato Pedestrian Tunnel (former Kaino Tunnel) in Kihoku, Mie: a 208-metre brick tunnel of 1914 on the old Kumano Road, with gas-lamp niches. Still walkable.
Red-brick raw cotton warehouse of 1923 in Matsusaka, Mie, about 74 metres long, now a heritage centre with a gallery that also keeps National Treasure haniwa.
Black-plastered storehouse built in 1916 as the Mie Village office archive, moved in 1976 and now a local museum in Yokkaichi; its ridge tiles bear the name Mie.
Timber Western-style alumni hall of 1936 on the Mie University campus in Tsu, built for the agricultural college's tenth anniversary; its only surviving building.
Outside the kitchen door of the Misedoi main house in Owase, this early-Showa well house shelters a well and sink under splayed posts, open on three sides.
On the north edge of the Misedoi estate in Owase, this Taisho-era timber gate with braces, wing walls and a wicket door leads to a 23 m earthen wall on granite.
Beside the main house in Owase, this small Taisho-era storehouse shows the trade name 山吉 on its ridge tiles and the family crest on its eaves, with a gable-end door.
The largest storehouse on the Misedoi estate in Owase, this early-Showa rice store has a hipped tiled roof with crested ridge tiles and a deep covered forecourt.
Built in 1931 in Owase, Mie, this timber house pairs a Western-style entrance and reception room with sukiya tatami rooms, a central corridor and Art Deco details.
Facing the old Kumano road in Owase, this early-Showa concrete gate and 126 m wall share the main house's rough coloured mortar, with scratch tile on the gateposts.
The smallest of the nine Misedoi structures in Owase, this early-Showa servants' toilet and pickle store is screened from the back gate by a yamato-bari board fence.
This Taisho-era timber shed on the Misedoi estate in Owase stored charcoal and tools, with board walls, rain-sheltering eaves and a slatted ventilation window.
The oldest of the nine Misedoi structures in Owase, this late-Edo earthen storehouse kept the family's tableware under a fully tiled roof with crested ridge tiles.
An early Showa, mortar-rendered office at the Miyazaki Honten brewery in Yokkaichi, with part-tiled upper walls and a gable ornament; registered in 1996.
A small early Showa warehouse behind Storage House Building A at Miyazaki Honten, Yokkaichi, its earthen walls cased in galvanised iron; registered in 1996.
The largest registered building at Miyazaki Honten, Yokkaichi: an L-shaped early Showa warehouse of three linked blocks, said to have been built as a brewhouse.
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