Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Chiryū-an, a Meiji-era tea house relocated to Chiryū Shrine in 1968, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property prized for sukiya touches such as bark-edged posts.

At Chiryū Shrine in Aichi, this 1954 cypress-bark worship hall fronts a rare Owari-style layout in Mikawa, registered in 2014 near the shrine's older pagoda.

Chiryu Shrine's Taisho-era offering hall, registered in 2014, stands before the main hall in a rare Owari-style row of sanctuaries, near a pagoda rebuilt in 1509.

The 1831 main hall of Chiryu Shrine in Aichi is a cypress-bark sanctuary beside the old Tokaido, registered, not designated, near a famed pagoda and festival.

Located on the campus of Tokai Junior and Senior High School in Nagoya's Higashi Ward, the Tokai Gakuen Great Hall is a steel-frame reinforced concrete auditorium completed in 1931 to commemorate Emperor Shōwa's enthronement. Its bold façade blends Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired aesthetics with German Expressionist motifs, and it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 1998.

Dodantei in Owariasahi is a sukiya villa built in 1942 around a 1723 Hida farmhouse. Its adze-hewn beams, Noh-themed garden, 2008 registration, and access.

Standing in Dotoku Park in Nagoya's Minami Ward, this 9.7-meter whale fountain was crafted in 1927 by concrete sculptor Goto Kuwagoro. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the memory of land once submerged beneath Ise Bay, delighting visitors with its hand-operated water spout mechanism for nearly a century.

Discover the Tokuunji Bentendo, a charming Taisho-era Benzaiten hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. Located in the historic Kira district of Nishio City, Aichi, this intimate pond-side sanctuary reflects over a century of deep Buddhist faith rooted in the legacy of the revered nun Satta Honshin.

Tokuunji Temple Main Hall in Nishio, Aichi, built in 1883, is 3 bays wide but 8 bays deep, a plan that buys room for chanting practice and leaves the exterior plain.

Built in 1899 as the front gate of the Owari Tokugawa residence in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Black Gate is a three-bay yakuimon of heavy zelkova, listed in 2014.

A stone draw well of about 1900 in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Tsurube Well keeps its granite curb, adzed post, cedar-bark roof and cherry-blossom iron pulley.

Running 84 meters along the western edge of Tokugawaen in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Wall changes finish as it goes, from plaster and clapboard to cedar bark.

Standing south of the black gate in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Side Nagaya is a single-storey range of about 1900, 19.6 meters long, with barred windows.

Registered in 2014, this Nagoya tea building pairs a 4.5-mat tea room of 1914 with a later 10-mat room. A timber merchant designed it around rare and buried woods.

Completed in 1935 and registered in 1997, this Nagoya gallery sets green-glazed tiles and shachi ridge figures over rampart-like walls of steel-framed concrete.

Built in 1935 and registered in 1997 on the same day as the Main Building it adjoins, this concrete store keeps its collection behind walls with almost no openings.

Built in 1883 and registered in 2014, this Nagoya tea building sets upper, middle and lower rooms at stepped floor levels, with a shelter for a guest's attendants.

Registered in 2014, this waiting shelter of 7.5 square meters carries a fan of bark-on poles overhead, a copper pyramid above, and one bench along its east side.

Built in 1934 behind the main hall of Tokujuji in Inuyama, Aichi, this registered hall holds memorial tablets at one end and the founder's hall at the other.

Tokujuji Temple Entrance in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1934, measures only 10 square meters, yet nearly all the carving at this Zen temple gathers on its front.

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