Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A stone pit five meters square and three deep in a Tokamachi wood held winter snow through summer as cold storage for sake brewing. Edo-period, registered 2002.
An 1882 three-story plastered storehouse in Nagaoka's brewing quarter, its Taisho top floor framed with a Western king-post truss. Registered in 2013, still in use.
A middle Meiji earthen storehouse in Nagaoka's Settaya brewing quarter, registered in 2013. Black plaster picks out its cornice, and miso still ferments inside.
A plain gabled hut of 1885 northeast of the Ito family's main house in Somi, Niigata, built over a laundry well and now a café with the old well inside.
An 8-square-metre tea garden pavilion on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, set on the path between two tea houses, its small hipped roof of tile ringed with copper.
A long two-storey storehouse of 1887 on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, joined to the main house by corridors, with white plaster walls and upper-floor doors.
The 1889 reception hall of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata: 287 square metres of tatami rooms with few posts, opening onto a pond garden famed for autumn colour.
A thatched three-room farmhouse moved from Kashiwazaki to the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with exposed beams, earthen floors and a projecting stable entrance.
An 18-metre work shed of 1883 north of the Ito family's main house in Somi, Niigata, built to saw timber for the mansion and now used as the museum shop.
A narrow early Showa store in the Dairoan compound of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, built tall on long posts to hold food, with two doors on its east side.
A postwar sukiya tea house by Tanaka Taiami on raised ground at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, built to face Sado Island, rustic outside with fine beams inside.
A triangular study and tea room designed by the head of the Ito family in 1891 at Somi, Niigata, its plan, mats and timbers shaped as triangles and rhombuses.
A former rice store on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with tiled walls and a trussed roof, now the museum's gallery for Chinese, Korean and Japanese art.
The 1887 main house of the Ito landlords at Somi, Niigata: 636 square metres over two storeys, with seven-tier roof beams and a 30-metre cedar purlin, open to view.
A two-storey sukiya-style reception wing of 1889 at the back of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with slender timbers and sand-plaster walls unlike the main house.
An L-shaped tea house of 1950 by Tanaka Taiami at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, joining a thatched hut and a tiled study, seen from across the garden.
The carpenters' workshop of 1883 at the northern edge of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata: a plain tall-posted shed where the mansion's builders worked.
A two-storey 1927 house with a rooftop lookout, built for a branch of the Ito family at Somi, Niigata, its walls and fittings based on tall rectangles.
A compact early Showa storehouse on the south wall of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, heavily built with thick timbers, tile-clad base and doors facing the house.
A one-bay gate and 20-metre wall of 1889 at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, dividing the great hall's forecourt from the garden under a curved copper roof.
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