Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1933 azumadachi house in Nakanoto, Ishikawa, with lean-to roofs on all sides and two sliding doors behind its main door. Registered in 2017 as a model of its type.

An early Showa storehouse at the Former Tango Family Residence in Nakanoto, Ishikawa: two stores under one roof, white mortar above and board or cast stone below.

An early Showa garden wall and gate at the Former Tango Family Residence, Nakanoto, Ishikawa: 29 m of board wall that turns a corner and lifts its roof into a gate.

Built in 1937, these 51 metres of fence in Nonoichi pair a street run of vertical boards, lattice and copper coping with an inner run faced in rustic cedar bark.

This small early Meiji storehouse in Nonoichi dresses its garden-facing walls in Tomuro stone, Shakudani stone and namako plaster, while its east wall stays plain.

Built in 1937 on the northern street, this Nonoichi gate pairs a curved copper roof with a lattice transom and capped rafter ends, a Shōwa foil to the Meiji gate.

Facing Nonoichi's old Hokkoku highway, this early Meiji ridge-roofed gate stands on Shakudani stone footings and forms one street front with its earthen walls.

Built in 1937 by the Tamura family, this Nonoichi house stacks irimoya roofs over a plan that splits three guest rooms from family rooms along a central corridor.

Running 34 metres around the west and south of the compound, this early Meiji earthen wall in Nonoichi rests on cut Tomuro stone and carries a tiled coping.

Said to be part of the house where Emperor Meiji rested in 1878, this Meiji annex in Nonoichi keeps a large reception room and a transom carved with Mount Fuji.

Facing Nonoichi's old Hokkoku highway, this late Edo storehouse was likely a timber store later clad in clay. Note its deep porch and the post carrying the ridge.

The Kuretake Bunko Main House in Hakusan, Ishikawa, is a 1928 retreat built by Kumada Gentaro, with plastered walls and a corner room with a white birch alcove post.

The Kuretake Bunko Stacks and Reading Room in Hakusan, Ishikawa, joins a c.1915 earthen book vault and a 1928 reading wing, with 14,000 books and a zelkova study.

The Kuretake Bunko Tea House in Hakusan, Ishikawa, is a c.1943 three-mat tea room called Kuretake-an, with an earthen veranda and a bamboo post set into the wall.

The Kuretake Bunko Storehouse in Hakusan, Ishikawa, is a c.1889 kimono vault older than the library, with plaster-relief doors in a torii-like frame, now a gallery.

Built in 1900 in Daishoji, Kaga City, the Gotokuan Main House keeps a samurai-house plan: entrance, anteroom and two reception rooms in a row. Registered in 2005.

The Gotokuan Warehouse, a two-story clapboard building of 1949 in Daishoji, Kaga City, joins the main house by a lean-to and faces the street. Registered in 2005.

The Gotokuan Annex in Daishoji, Kaga City, is a single six-mat room of 1919 with a crafted alcove, shelves and ceiling, facing a north garden. Registered 2005.

The Gotokuan Gate in Daishoji, Kaga City, is a late Edo wooden udekimon gate two bays wide, with old posts and crossbeam from the domain era. Registered in 2005.

The 1933 kiln shed of the Tokuda Kutani workshop in Komatsu, Ishikawa, registered in 2019, a rare surviving shed with two overglaze kilns.

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