Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1873, the Front Storehouse of the former Enman Orimono in Yonezawa survived the Taisho fires. Registered in 2020, it has red namako walls and fire shutters.

Built in 1934 on Ginza-dori in Tsuruoka, Yamagata, this concrete block pairs a stone-effect ground floor with tiled upper walls and an Ebisu medallion.

The 1934 entrance to a national silkworm station in Shinjo City: concrete piers faced in scratch tile, iron leaves between them, and thirty metres of low fence.

A 1934 timber building west of the main office where silkworm eggs were checked for disease, held at controlled warmth until hatching, and moths drawn out on time.

The only reinforced concrete building at this 1934 silkworm station, with ten cold rooms in two rows for chilling eggs and a timber truss under clay tiles.

At 93 square metres this 1934 timber building is the smallest of the ten registered here, once holding a bathroom, a kitchen and rooms for staff on night duty.

Built in 1935, the first and largest of the four rearing houses here, with a ventilation tower on the ridge and stairs down to a cool store for mulberry leaves.

Built in 1937 as the unheated house for the summer silkworm crop, its upper floor still largely as it was, with a gabled porch at the centre of the south elevation.

Built in 1937 west of the first rearing house, this timber building was warmed by boiler steam so that spring and autumn silkworm crops could both be raised here.

A 1937 heated rearing house that keeps original partitions and flooring on part of its ground floor, with stairs in the east lean-to down to a cool mulberry store.

Built in 1934 at the heart of a snow-country silkworm station, this timber office keeps its symmetrical four-room plan and now holds a free exhibition room.

Corridors running north from the main office to link every building on this 1934 silkworm station, walled against the snow, with the largest footprint of the ten.

The 1937 office of the Setcho snow-country research institute in Shinjo, Yamagata, registered in 2014, with a steep dormered roof designed for heavy snow.

An 1899 earth-walled storehouse behind the farmhouse in Utamaru, Nagai, Yamagata, with a workroom to the north and a two-storey rice store; listed in 2022.

A 1932 stable joined to a thatched farmhouse in Utamaru, Nagai, Yamagata, with two stalls, posts still holed for tethering bars and a low loft; registered in 2022.

A late Edo-period thatched farmhouse in Utamaru, Nagai, Yamagata, with a smoke-vent gable on its hipped roof and paired reception rooms, registered in 2022.

A 1908 farm range in Utamaru, Nagai, Yamagata: a thatched tool shed joined to a metal-roofed barn for dairy cows, forming the farm's front; listed in 2022.

An 1887 earth-walled rice store in Utamaru, Nagai, Yamagata, with a separate metal roof over its plastered body and grain bins closed by drop boards; listed 2022.

The oldest of five merchant storehouses in Nagai, Yamagata, this late Edo two-storey kura has tall east windows closed by heavy shutters in stepped plaster work.

The youngest of five Nagai merchant storehouses, this early Showa timber store stands beside a late Edo kura, its west window canopy set on a geometric iron bracket.