Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The shrine office of around 1917 at the entrance to Narumi Tegashi Shrine in Inuyama, Aichi, a plain hip-and-gable building with a gabled porch. Registered property.
The worship hall of around 1917 at Narumi Tegashi Shrine in Inuyama, Aichi, open on all four sides yet dignified on its raised base. Registered property.
A screen wall of around 1917 before the worship hall of Narumi Tegashi Shrine in Inuyama, Aichi, a blind wall peculiar to Owari shrines. Registered property.
The 1865 Benten hall on a spring-fed pond at Narumi Tegashi Shrine in Inuyama, Aichi, the oldest building there, with painted ceiling panels. Registered property.
The 1917 main hall of Narumi Tegashi Shrine in Inuyama, Aichi, a one-bay hall with layered chidori and cusped gables and carving throughout. Registered property.
Reiners Hall, the 1932 main building of Nanzan Gakuen in Nagoya, was designed by the Swiss architect Max Hinder, with ochre walls and notched parapets.
A brick book stack of around 1919 at the Iwase Bunko in Nishio, Aichi, registered in 1999, which kept the collection for eighty years with made-to-measure shelves.
A small Western-style children's library of around 1925 at the Iwase Bunko in Nishio, Aichi, registered in 1999, with half-timbered gables; now the Toy Museum.
Nishikomaya Tamura Family Residence Main House, a late-Meiji brewer's townhouse on the old Tokaido in Toyohashi registered in 2014: six-room plan, lattice, eaves.
Nishikomaya Tamura Family Residence Storehouse, a late-Meiji earthen-walled vault behind a brewer's house in Toyohashi, registered in 2014: plaster front, boarding.
The 1934 office building of the Japan Ceramic Center in Nagoya is a concrete building faced with ceramic tiles inside and out, with an Art Deco meeting room.
The 1958 building of the Japan Ceramic Center in Nagoya is a modernist office with wide glazing, balanced windows, a curving staircase and regional tiles.
The Lutheran church in Okazaki, Aichi, built in 1953, is a timber church with a spire and cross on its ridge, three aisles and white walls under a red roof.
This small Lutheran church in Higashi Ward, Nagoya, rebuilt in 1953 after the war to a design by Vories, has a spire, scissor trusses and a cross-shaped window.
The gate of Nyoiji in Toyota, Aichi, a four-legged gate of the late Edo period, faces the main hall with round posts, panelled doors and a fine coffered ceiling.
The shoin of Nyoiji in Toyota, Aichi, from the late Edo period, is said to have been a temporary hall while the main hall was built, and keeps three rooms in a row.
The bell tower of Nyoiji in Toyota, Aichi, built in about 1755 on a stone base, has inward-leaning posts and a diamond-framed panel ceiling ringed with coffering.
The drum tower of Nyoiji in Toyota, Aichi, from the late Edo period, carries a crosswise drum turret on its roof, with a tea room and store inside below.
The main hall of Nyoiji in Toyota, Aichi, built in about 1823, is a seven-bay Shin Buddhist hall with a wide porch and a raised coffered ceiling over its sanctuary.
The Nogi Warehouse, an early Meiji brick powder magazine inside Nagoya Castle, was registered in 1997. In 1945 it sheltered 1,047 palace paintings from the air raid.
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