Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1874 to hold a Nagai wholesaler's sugar, this single-storey earthen storehouse is about 12 metres long, with a separate roof and two tiers of sealed doors.

Said to have held pledged goods, this 1875 two-storey pawn storehouse in Nagai, Yamagata, has tall east windows whose shutters span both floors, framed in black.

A two-storey earthen storehouse built in 1874 in Nagai, Yamagata, its white walls edged with a black plaster band and six sealed openings on the south side.

Former Yamadera Hotel in Yamagata: a late-Meiji inn below Risshakuji that turned its karahafu entrance to the new station in 1936, now open as Yamagata Retro Hall.

Concrete cocoon warehouse of 1927 in Miyauchi, Nan'yo, Yamagata, the largest of three on the site, recalling the silk trade; now the Kurara community hall.

A long early Meiji storehouse at a Yonezawa sake brewery, with barred windows, a red-tiled namako-kabe skirt and an unusual strutted rafter frame with no ridge beam.

A 16-metre timber fence of about 1919 around the north garden of a Yonezawa sake brewery house, its copper coping crossing at the corner in a bird-perch finish.

The only two-storey brewing storehouse registered at a Yonezawa sake brewery, built in 1922 on a tall stone plinth, its windowed gable facing the south road.

A late Taisho timber work hall linking the storehouses of a Yonezawa sake brewery, where Nos. 3 and 4 open onto it and the bottling line joins on the north.

The oldest of twelve registered buildings at a Yonezawa sake brewery: a late Edo storehouse whose roof sweeps down in one plane, framed on doubled tie beams.

A late Taisho corrugated-iron warehouse at the southeast corner of a Yonezawa sake brewery, joined to its neighbour by a wedge link and lined with rubbing boards.

The long-fronted 1919 shop and residence of a Yonezawa sake brewery founded in 1597, with a tall 18-mat reception room and four formal rooms. Seen from the street.

A two-storey early Meiji strongroom on the north edge of a Yonezawa sake brewery: white plaster over a red-tiled namako-kabe skirt, with windows only facing inward.

A late Meiji storehouse at a Yonezawa sake brewery that copies the plaster and red-tiled skirt of its older neighbour, while carrying its roof on a king post truss.

A 1929 hip-and-gable household shrine in the courtyard of a Yonezawa sake brewery: porch roof, coffered ceiling, 6.9 square metres, registered as a model of form.

A 1919 bracket-armed gate and yamato-uchi board fence closing the front garden of a Yonezawa sake brewery, with copper ridge and coping ending in bird-perch curls.

A mid-Meiji brewing storehouse at the heart of a Yonezawa sake brewery, raised on a plinth of stone and brick and roofed with an early king post truss.

City hall of 1967 in Sagae, Yamagata, an early work by Kurokawa Kisho with upper floors hung from four cores and an Okamoto Taro sculpture; still in use today.

Former ryotei of 1895 by the master carpenter Sato Taitaro in Sakata, Yamagata, used by Kitamaebune shipowners; now open with displays on local history.

Nine wire-gabion groynes of 1925 below the No. 16 dam on the Shohoji River in Tendo: Kawasaki-type gabions two tiers high, densely saddled: the sturdiest type.

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