Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The 1933 main house of the Tokuda Kutani workshop in Komatsu, Ishikawa, registered in 2019, whose upper floor served as the overglaze painting studio.
The Saigawa Bridge in Kanazawa, built in 1924 as a broad bridge for the planned tramways, is a steel curved-chord Warren truss 62 metres long on National Route 157.
Built as a Kanazawa restaurant in 1937, this house was moved intact after the war and made a home, keeping its swan transoms and two shoin alcoves. Registered 2004.
A Meiji-period house in Kaga City, Ishikawa, registered in 1999. Its 1941 entrance wing joins an older reception wing, both in slender timber under raw lacquer.
A late-Edo earthen storehouse in Kaga City, Ishikawa, moved in 1997 from the burial temple of the Daishoji lords, registered in 1999 as difficult to reproduce.
This 1921 townhouse east of the Asano River doubles the brackets under its deep eave and turns its upstairs sitting room toward Mount Utatsu. Registered in 2004.
Built around 1899 in Kanazawa, this farmhouse stacks four tiers of beam across its gable end and finishes its rooms in refined sukiya style. Registered in 2002.
Shokoji's north storehouse in Hakusan, built in 1914, is the earliest of the temple's Taisho buildings, a small earthen dozo with black-plaster base and stone facing.
Shokoji's guest hall in Hakusan, built in 1918, is the temple's most ornate building, with a cusped entrance gable, gold-papered walls and mother-of-pearl transoms.
Shokoji's kuri in Hakusan, a two-storey priests' quarters of 1918, shows a decorated west gable of struts and boat brackets over weatherboarding, cited as a modern kuri.
Shokoji's zashiki wing in Hakusan, a two-storey timber building of 1918, holds formal rooms with alcoves over two floors and served as living and reception space.
Shokoji's main gate in Hakusan, a gabled four-legged gate of 1956, shows dense bracketing and a dragon carved across the opening, a work of high decorative quality.
Shokoji's bell tower in Hakusan keeps a mid-Edo frame, the oldest at the temple, an open single-bay tower on a high Tomuro-stone plinth, relocated in 1976 and registered.
Shokoji's Sofu-an in Hakusan, a thatched tea room built in 1935, is named after Chiyo-ni's brush name and marked by a cross-shaped roof; a registered cultural property.
Shokoji's tea house in Hakusan, built in 1918, gathers named rooms such as Ryoryo-an under one roof, a refined Taisho tea complex with a compact log-and-bamboo tea room.
Shokoji's Chiyo-ni Hall in Hakusan, built in 1935 for the poet's 150th memorial, is a tiny thatched shrine holding Yoshida Saburo's carved image of Kaga no Chiyo.
Shokoji's main hall in Hakusan, Ishikawa, a large Shin Buddhist sanctuary of 1898, has round columns and Inami-carved transoms; a registered cultural property.
Shokoji's south storehouse in Hakusan, an earthen dozo of 1918, frames its street-side windows in a torii-like outline to compose the townscape; a registered property.
Shingyoji Temple Shoin in Nanao, Ishikawa: the attendants' wing of an imperial rest house built at Wakura Onsen in 1909, now under restoration after the Noto quake.
Built in 1932 in the Jinnosuke Valley on Mount Hakusan, this 40.0-metre dam is the longest and the lowest of eleven stepped dams, and the footing for all of them.
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