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.

The auditorium of Tokai Gakuen in Nagoya, built in 1931 for the enthronement of Emperor Showa, has a facade mixing the Wright manner with German Expressionism.

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.

The whale fountain in Dotoku Park, Nagoya, made by the sculptor Goto Kuwagoro in 1927, recalls that the district was once part of Ise Bay and is loved locally.

A tiny hall of 1918 at Tokuunji, Nishio, Aichi, on a base at the pond's edge, enshrining Benzaiten; its roof is hipped in front and gabled behind. Registered 2021.

The main hall of Tokuunji in Nishio, Aichi, built in 1883, 3 bays wide and 8 deep for a large outer sanctuary, its plain exterior fit for nenbutsu. Registered 2021.

The Black Gate of Tokugawaen in Nagoya, built in 1899 as the main gate of the Owari Tokugawa residence, is a broad zelkova gate flanked by walls and a gate lodge.

The well of Tokugawaen in Nagoya, made around 1900 near the old stables, has a granite curb and a small roof hung with an iron pulley pierced with cherry blossoms.

The walls of Tokugawaen in Nagoya, built around 1900 along the west of the estate, run 84 metres, plastered by the Black Gate and boarded on the slope.

The gatehouse range of Tokugawaen in Nagoya, built around 1900 beside the Black Gate, is a 20-metre range whose lattice window shows its role as a gate lodge.

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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