Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Motogura of Banjo Jozo in Odaka, Nagoya: a middle Meiji timber fermentation hall listed 2007, with steaming and testing rooms attached. Closed to visitors.
The 1898 core of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, by architect Tsumaki Yorinaka. A two-storey brewery adjoins a five-storey block with fireproof floors and cavity walls.
The largest wing of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, extended in three ranges from 1908 as Kabuto Beer sold. Note the English-bond walls, gables and strafing marks.
The single-storey half-timber wing of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, built in 1898 to wash, fill and ship bottles. Its timber frame recalls the Tomioka Silk Mill.
The Juodo Hall of Fumonji in Toyohashi, Aichi, built in 1852 beside the approach, is a simple gable-entry hall whose ornamented gable shapes the precinct.
The bell-tower gate of Fumonji in Toyohashi, Aichi, built in 1707, is a grand two-storey gate with deep eaves and a bell hung in its upper storey above the path.
The Daishi Hall of Fumonji in Toyohashi, Aichi, built in 1854, is a light three-bay hall under a pyramidal roof, its coffered ceiling painted with plants.
The Niomon Gate of Fumonji in Toyohashi, Aichi, a mid-Edo eight-legged gate at the entrance to the precinct, houses a pair of guardian kings and is finely carved.
The Bentendo of Fumonji in Toyohashi, Aichi, a tiny shrine of 1714 inside a protective shed, has a porch arch of two entwined dragons and cock-headed beam ends.
The main hall of Fumonji in Toyohashi, Aichi, built in 1693 at the maple temple of Toyohashi, is a five-bay Shingon hall whose curved-beam framing is local.
The main hall of Hokoji in Konan, Aichi, built in 1855, is a large Shin Buddhist hall 22 by 26 metres with round pillars, three-block brackets and a three-bay porch.
The former repository of the Hosa Bunko in Nagoya, built in 1935 by joining two storehouses, long held the books handed down in the Owari Tokugawa family.
The 1929 shoin of Hōshuin, linked to the main hall by a veranda, is a refined reception hall whose upper room sets a wide alcove and study nook under coffered ceilings.
Built in 1903 for the local war dead, this single-bay memorial hall at Hōshuin spans about 20 square meters, its porch carved with Rising Sun motifs of its era.
Built in 1675, the main hall of Hōshuin in Kira, Nishio is a mid-Edo Pure Land hall whose plain outer frame gives way to an ornate inner sanctuary, registered in 2017.
The shoin of Hosenji in Tsushima, Aichi, a Meiji-period building moved from the Hattori family residence in 1930, is a carefully built sukiya-style shoin.
The Horibe Family Residence Workshop is an 1893 storeroom, farm shed, and silkworm room on a former samurai plot in Inuyama, registered in 2006. Plan and visiting.
Built in 1883 by a former Naruse retainer turned silk grower, this is the only samurai-style house left in Inuyama's castle town. A spear rack recalls its warrior past.
A tiled wooden wall about 22 meters long at the street edge of the Horibe Residence in Inuyama, built in the early Showa era. It frames the approach to the samurai house.
A thick-walled kura from 1893 at the Horibe Residence in Inuyama. Plaster and dark boarding give it the classic armor of a storehouse, built for a silk-trading family.
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