Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Sesonji Temple Front Gate, a bracket-arm gate at the roadside entrance of a Sado temple, dates to about 1800, has a plank ceiling, and was registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Household Goods Storehouse on Sado, built in 1831 and moved in 1887, frames its upper windows in torii-shaped plaster and was registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Shoin on Sado Island, linked to the Main Hall by a corridor, has four tatami rooms under a tall hip-and-gable roof and was registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Treasure House, a late-Edo clay storehouse on high ground at a Sado temple, has a separate okiyane roof and ornate plaster relief, registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Main Hall on Sado, begun in 1892 and finished in 1907, is a large Nichiren hall of 301 square meters, registered as a cultural property in 2006.

Nine years older than the main hall it adjoins, this 1785 priests' wing in Tainai, Niigata, was registered in 2018 for its sequence of shoin reception rooms.

Built in 1794 in Tainai, Niigata, this Shin Buddhist main hall was registered in 2018 for its design: dragon carvings on the entrance canopy and oversized struts.

The 1893 shop-house of Sosendo, a working sweet shop on the old main street of Murakami, Niigata, with a shop room in front and an open living room. Registered 2005.

A two-storey clay-walled store of 1887 behind the Sosendo sweet shop in Murakami, Niigata, older than the main house, with a detached roof and black plaster bands.

Dairinji's sutra repository of 1857 is a small plastered storehouse. Its canopy beam is carved with grapes and a squirrel, and cloud-and-dragon work rings the altar.

Dairinji's kuri of 1920 is a modern Zen monastery's living quarters joined to the main hall. Two rows of rooms hold upper study quarters and a board-floored kitchen.

Dairinji's Sanmon of 1863 is a doorless bell-tower gate dense with carving. Its upper storey holds a bell attributed to Living Treasure Katori Masahiko.

Dairinji's outer gate of about 1852 is a four-legged gate on the old Yonezawa road, its round and square pillars rising from a stone platform on the central axis.

Dairinji's storehouse of 1928 was moved from a blacksmith's lot in 1986. Its walls set namako lattice against black plaster, with crane-and-tortoise reliefs on the eaves.

The main hall of Dairinji is the third on its site, rebuilt in 1883 after fire and war. A plain six-room Zen frame reserves its carved brackets for the altar zone.

An 1806 open belfry in Joetsu with close-set brackets and carved panels, housing a 1783 bell that was taken in 1944 and returned the next year, the temple says.

A three-bay 1827 gate in Joetsu with Zen-style triple bracketing, a big hip-and-gable roof, and unpainted keyaki carved with Chinese legends and zodiac animals.

Built in 1827 with the Great Gate, this 56 m wall in Joetsu turns forward at each end, with five rank lines on its white street face and plain boards inside.

Rebuilt in concrete in 1959 after a fire, this Joetsu temple hall pairs a barrel-vault roof and spires once called "Indian style" with a column-free tatami hall.

Takahashi Ameya Main House in Joetsu, Niigata: an 1875 townhouse on the Hokkoku Kaido with a gangi snow arcade, still the shop of a candy maker founded in 1624.