Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1916 in Kanazawa's Ishibiki quarter, this small former clinic is a timber building disguised as Western stone, with a scored mortar front and pilasters.

In Kanazawa, a 1916 wooden townhouse stands behind a former clinic, its plan separating patient and family routes, an early mark of modern urban living in Japan.

In Kanazawa's Ishibiki, the Ueno Family Storehouse is a small 1916 dozo with white-plastered walls and a placed tiled roof, a cultural property near Kenrokuen.

The Chikkeikan of Enuma Shrine in Kaga, Ishikawa, built in 1900 and moved here around 1966, is a two-storey hall with a raised room for formal reception.

Completed in 1957 on the lower Ozo River in Ishikawa, this 41.0-metre concrete dam was the first sabo dam in Japan designed by three-dimensional stress analysis.

The main house of the Kitaoji Rosanjin Former Residence, an early Meiji townhouse at Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga, was Rosanjin's workplace and is open to visitors.

The storehouse of the Kitaoji Rosanjin Former Residence at Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga, built in 1890, stands at right angles to the main house on the west of the plot.

Built about 1870 for a Kitamae shipping family in Hashitate, Kaga, the 369-square-metre Zorokuen Main House was registered in 1999 as difficult to reproduce.

Built in 1890 behind the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 30-square-metre storehouse carries white plaster above and namako tiling below, unlike its neighbours.

Built in 1890 along the front road at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 38-square-metre store kept miso below and documents above behind almost windowless walls.

Built in 1890 at the north end of the storehouse row at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 26-square-metre store on dressed stone shows the ordinary form of the estate.

Built in the Taisho era at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 54-square-metre rice store places a covering roof over two adjoining storehouses to close the street frontage.

Built in 1890 southeast of the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 20-square-metre storehouse held art objects and is the smallest of the estate's 11 listings.

Built in 1920 beside Storehouse 3 at Zorokuen in Kaga, this plain 25-square-metre single-storey store held fishing and funeral gear behind boarded walls.

Built in the Taisho era between Storehouses 5 and 7 at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 36-square-metre store sets sliding doors, plaster and battened boards on one face.

Built in 1920 on the eastern edge of Zorokuen in Kaga, this 37-square-metre building held servants' quarters and a charcoal store behind a short wing wall.

Built in the Taisho era beside the entrance of the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 1.8-metre gate divides the inner grounds behind black plastered walls.

Built in the Taisho era in front of the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this gate is two capped posts with 6.9 metres of openwork and waist-high walling.

Built by Shimizu-gumi in 1929 for the Takaoka Bank, this curved four-storey concrete landmark by the Asano River now houses the Kanazawa Bungeikan literary centre.

An early Showa board wall at the Former Tango Family Residence, Nakanoto, Ishikawa: 2.4 m high and 21 m long, plastered with openings above and panelled below.

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