Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Ikinariya's front gate of 1914 is a sukiya-manner gate with a curved copper roof and korai-mon stance, a crane emblem carved in openwork above the door.

Ikinariya's Kyuban-no-ma, an 1877 room of about 29 square meters, rests on a garden hill at the rear and tall posts at the front, projecting stage-like over the garden.

Ikinariya's Kotobuki-no-ma and Niban-no-ma, an 1877 hall and its largest registered room, sits at the back of the grounds, opening onto the pond garden for banquets.

Ikinariya's Sanban-no-ma, a compact 1877 room of about 40 square meters, pairs a kakekomi ceiling following the roof slope with a boat-bottom funazoko ceiling.

Ikinariya's main building, in a Niigata ryotei founded around 1700, is a late-Edo two-story wooden hall with an L-shaped doma, one of ten structures registered in 2000.

Ikinariya's middle gate and wall of 1928 form an inner boundary: a light gate with a natural-timber ridge, shingle roof and woven door, beside a wall by the storehouse.

Ikinariya's detached room, a 1928 wing and its largest registered structure, sets Western lamps and a natural-wood rail within a Japanese hall, cranes throughout.

An early Showa gate and walls in Niigata City: a light copper-roofed timber gate open above the lintel, set between stepped reinforced-concrete walls 11 m long.

A 43 m late Meiji walkway around a courtyard in Niigata City: open posts on the garden side, and outside a textured black-plaster wall over a faux-stone base.

A late Meiji farmhouse in Niigata City remodeled in early Showa with a Western parlor, a mother-of-pearl Raden-no-ma room and a painted belvedere; registered 2007.

A late Meiji gatehouse in Niigata City: five bays long with a hipped pantile roof, a stone-paved passage behind red bengara doors, white plaster and deep eaves.

A late Meiji gate and walkway in Niigata City dividing two gardens: a carved crest over the gate, and a corridor open to the courtyard, walled in plaster and bark.

An early Showa gate and wall in Niigata City: a narrow copper-roofed gate with a lattice door and a 7.9 m wall faced with cedar bark held by split bamboo.

The Isurugi Shrine Worship Hall in Nagaoka is a 1934 hip-and-gable hall on a stone base, with curved porch posts, a dragon and carved lions; registered in 2006.

The Isurugi Shrine Worship Hall in Niigata City is a late Edo hip-and-gable hall with a railed veranda and porch beam ends carved as baku; registered in 2008.

The Isurugi Shrine Main Hall in Nagaoka is a 1.4 square meter nagare-zukuri shrine of 1934 by a local carpenter, with a dragon and curved beams; registered 2006.

The Isurugi Shrine Main Hall near Toyosaka Station, Niigata City, is a gabled sanctuary of 1796 whose carved patterns reflect its age; registered in 2008.

The Ito Family Residence Front Gate and Inner Fence in Gosen, Niigata, pairs a 2.1-metre bracket-arm gate with 21 metres of battened boarding, listed in 2005.

Built in 1876 and moved on rollers in 1915, the Ito Family Residence Household Goods Storehouse and Weighing Room in Gosen, Niigata, covers 114 square metres.

The Ito Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Gosen, Niigata, dates from 1879, covers 51 square metres and shows cut-stone footings and a drip moulding.

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