Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Two early Showa warehouses joined in an H opposite the Miyazaki Honten office in Yokkaichi, with eaves on every face and a brown brick chimney; registered in 1996.
A large early Showa gabled warehouse at Miyazaki Honten, Yokkaichi, painted with the Kikkomiya mark and clad differently from its neighbours; registered in 1996.
A symmetrical Western-style annex of 1910 built by a forestry family in Kihoku, Mie, registered in 2004 and used as a local history museum.
Main hall of 1857 at Myokeji, a Takada-school Shin temple founded in 1669 in Hisai, Tsu, Mie, with a stepped hipped roof and decorative canopy; still in use.
A late Edo storehouse for household goods in Nabari, entered at the gable end, finished in white plaster with a 3-tier eaves band and a namako-kabe tiled base.
A late Edo townhouse and former inn in Nabari with a gabled north wing, a hip-and-gable south wing and a loft storey plastered white into the eaves. Registered 2019.
An early Meiji guest pavilion behind a Nabari townhouse: a plain ground floor under exposed joists and an upper room with a writing alcove and carved transoms.
A late Edo granary in the corner of a Nabari townhouse garden, its clay walls left at the intermediate coat with a 2-tier eaves band, facing the main rooms.
A late Edo farmhouse of 175 square meters in Komono, Mie, with a swelling hip-and-gable tile roof, a small gable and an earth-floored east half. Registered 2020.
A late Meiji hip-roofed building in Komono, Mie, with fish-scale shingle walls and rounded plaster eaves; inside, a waiting room, consulting room and X-ray room.
A 1968 shoin in Komono, Mie, built with Shigemori Mirei's garden: a 10-mat room with alcove shelves and a writing desk, verandas on three sides. Registered 2020.
A Meiji tea house in Komono, Mie, made to the taste of tea master Yoshida Jokei, moved in 1952 and 1968, with a cave-like alcove and crawl-in door. Registered 2020.
A later Edo yakuimon gate in Komono, Mie, 4.2 meters wide, with a swelling tile roof, a signed ridge tile and a drainage channel from Shigemori's 1968 garden.
A late Edo earthen storehouse in Komono, Mie, with a separate floating tile roof, board-clad ground floor, plastered upper floor and copper door. Registered in 2020.
Barely 19 square meters, Ryokan Kunrakuso's late-Meiji storehouse is a copper-clad dozo whose board skirting and sea-cucumber plaster join it to the street wall.
Ryokan Kunrakuso's late-Meiji main building, in old Kuwamachi, Iga-Ueno, holds eleven tatami guest rooms with tokonoma, carved transoms and a gazebo-style hall ceiling.
Ryokan Kunrakuso's gate and wall form the street face of a late-Meiji Iga-Ueno inn: a 12-meter wall, 3.3 meters high, a tiled gate, and a black-plastered upper line.
Built in 1929 at Yunoyama Onsen, this inn annexe has a copper roof against frost, ogee windows sized from Ishiyamadera and rare Colburn glass. Registered in 2008.
Two-storey earthen storehouse of 1910 behind the Ichijima gun shop in Yamagata City, with a sukiya-style tatami room and thick plastered walls with double doors.
Two-storey concrete shop of 1927 on Nanokamachi in Yamagata City, built for a gunpowder merchant; the first concrete shop in Yamagata, with stone-like walls.
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