Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 3-storey timber villa of 1921 in Maego, Yurihonjo: a lookout top floor with shachi on the ridge, and inside, wild-geese carvings and etched glass of local scenes.

The rice storehouse of the Sasaki merchant family in Kameda, Akita, built in the Taisho era, bears large coloured plaster reliefs of the gods Ebisu and Daikoku.

The main house of the Sasaki merchant family in Kameda, Akita, built in the mid-Meiji era, has a ridge thrust over the street and a long earth-floored passage.

The doll storehouse of the Sasaki family in Kameda, Akita, a Taisho-era store later used for festival dolls, shows fine plasterwork, stonework and namako tiling.

The Sato no Ie Main House in Akita, a thatched chumon-style farmhouse of about 1884 that belonged to a village headman, was moved in 1987 and now hosts dining.

Shinmei Shrine Inari Torii in Yurihonjo, Akita, is an 1810 stone gate, the oldest of the shrine's seven registered structures, with thick collars and tilted pillars.

Shinmei Shrine Kuden is a gilded miniature shrine made in 1883 for the Main Hall of Yoshizawa Shinmei Shrine in Akita, with a folded roof and the Rokugo crest.

Shinmei Shrine Subsidiary Shrine Joint Hall in Yurihonjo, Akita, enshrines Kotohira and Akiba together, with a bracketed inner sanctum and an ink dragon dated 1852.

Shinmei Shrine Haiheiden in Yurihonjo, Akita, joins an 1867 worship hall to a 1915 offering hall, with carved sumo wrestlers and ceiling art by domain painters.

Shinmei Shrine Main Hall in Yurihonjo, Akita, is a 1915 shinmei-zukuri sanctuary with free-standing ridge posts and a fanned veranda, registered in 2004.

Shinmei Shrine Mikoshi Hall in Yurihonjo, Akita, is a plain 1908 gabled store for a portable shrine, with four panelled doors and batten-held weatherboard walls.

Shinmei Shrine Ryobu Torii in Yurihonjo, Akita, is a timber gate braced by auxiliary posts, dated to 1842 by city sources and to early Showa by the national list.

Kaminozashiki, the Taisho-era guest room of Suzuki Sake Brewery in Daisen, Akita: a 12-mat room with alcove and writing bay in yew and ebony, wrapped by deep eaves.

The 1897 north storehouse of Suzuki Sake Brewery in Daisen, Akita, once flanked the pressing room at the heart of brewing. Its roof rests on one curved beam.

Suzuki Sake Brewery's 1965 brewing storehouse in Daisen, Akita, sets a king post truss roof on a traditional nuki-braced frame; the youngest of its seven buildings.

The mid-Meiji office and main house of Suzuki Sake Brewery in Daisen, Akita, turns its gable to the old road with four tiers of beams; glass doors light its passage.

Suzuki Sake Brewery's Taisho-era middle storehouse in Daisen, Akita, runs 24 metres, with a timber side wing and later testing rooms that trace changes in brewing.

The 1896 document storehouse of Suzuki Sake Brewery in Daisen, Akita, has door and window frames in black plaster with trowelled motifs. Heirlooms shown on tours.

The 1899 front storehouse of Suzuki Sake Brewery in Daisen, Akita: a 19-metre brewing hall edged in black plaster, with a stepped kakegonuri door. How to visit.

The Sekita divider in Misato, Akita, a concrete ring of 1938 at the head of the Rokugo fan, splits irrigation water ten ways through 180 holes, an early example.

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