Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Myorakuji Temple Bell Tower in Kinomoto, Shiga, is a one-bay belfry built in 1837 and registered in 2023, with leaning posts, two-step brackets and carved transoms.
Myorakuji Temple Drum Tower in Kinomoto, Shiga, is a 2-storey tower built in 1807 and registered in 2023, with flame-headed windows above and a flared skirt below.
Myorakuji Temple Main Hall in Kinomoto, Shiga, is a vast An'ei-era Shin hall registered in 2023, with a 697 square metre footprint and a 2020 seismic retrofit.
The Wakabayashi Family Residence North Storehouse is a 1920 plastered kura moved to Hikone in 1928, with torii-framed gable windows beside the Western-style wing.
The Wakabayashi Family Residence Zashiki Wing is a 1924 reception wing moved to Hikone in 1928, with a full formal alcove, shelves and writing desk facing 2 gardens.
The Wakabayashi Family Residence Main House in Hikone is a two-storey 1928 Japanese home with a bold arched window in its formal room and a glazed veranda.
The Wakabayashi Family Residence Kitchen Wing in Hikone, built 1928, pairs a kitchen and bath with a lady's sitting room with a sloping ceiling and triangle alcove.
The Wakabayashi Family Residence Tea Room Building is a 1924 teahouse moved to Hikone in 1928, with a bamboo-lintel alcove and a veranda eave laid out like a fan.
The Wakabayashi Family Residence South Storehouse is a 1920 plastered kura moved to Hikone in 1928, one of two storehouses lining the eastern edge; closed inside.
The Wakabayashi Family Residence Gate and Wall in Hikone is an early Showa gate with lattice doors in a tall wall, and a 68-metre boundary wall with small windows.
The Wakabayashi Family Residence Western-Style Wing in Hikone is a 1928 annex with a red jerkinhead roof, chimney and Tudor fireplace; family lore credits Vories.
A three-bay nagare-zukuri shrine sanctuary of only 13 square metres in Kotakaricho, Higashiomi, Shiga. Registered 2004 as a model of design; exterior viewing only.
A 1949 wooden school in the mountains of Kimotsuki, Kagoshima, registered in 2009, with clapboard walls braced by buttresses against the wind, closed since 2012.
An early Showa Western-style clinic in the Kaseda samurai quarter of Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima, registered in 2009, with a varied roofline and clapboard walls.
An 1894 stone gate in Yamashitacho, Kagoshima City. Its 3.1-metre opening served a middle school, a library and the prefectural office. Registered 2008; free to see.
An early Showa timber post office in Kawabe, Minamikyushu, Kagoshima, registered in 2007, with a Stick Style exterior and the postal mark worked into its canopy brackets.
Built in 1935 on Kakeroma Island in Setouchi, Kagoshima, this 3.7-square-metre concrete structure in shrine form held imperial portraits and the education rescript.
A white Western-style clinic of 1928 in Fukiage, Hioki, Kagoshima, registered in 2007, with tall sash windows and elegant Western detailing at the entrance and eaves.
A late Edo samurai house on Tanegashima, registered in 2017. Its attic yielded a 1551 spear licence issued to Tanegashima Tokitaka and a 1513 paired portrait.
A late Edo bracket-arm gate on Tanegashima, registered in 2017. Round log posts are rare in old Satsuma, and carved mouldings survive in its smallest members.
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