Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The No. 2 Sedimentation Basin at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1930 concrete basin in 12 sections, sealed with asphalt and lead joints.

The No. 2 Slow Sand Filter at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1931 filter in 25 sections, its bed of brick, slab and sand draining at 1 in 118.

The No. 4 Slow Sand Filter at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1931 filter whose small well house stands on a granite plinth with three steps.

The No. 6 Slow Sand Filter at Sue Water Purification Plant in Kanazawa is a 1931 filter at the north-west corner, where the outflows of all six filters join.

Built in 1931 after the Komatsu fire, the Suzuki Family Residence Main House turns a Nakamachi corner with a hip-and-gable roof, corner entrance and stepped eaves.

Built in 1882, the Suzuki Family Residence Storehouse in Komatsu survived the great fire of 1930; its plastered walls and gabled roof recall a Meiji merchant home.

Built in 1931 after the Komatsu fire, the Suzuki Family Residence Shop Storehouse is concrete dressed as a plastered dozo, with a peaked parapet facing the street.

Sojiji Temple Soin Koshakudai, the 1954 priests' quarters and kitchen of Sojiji Soin in Wajima, doubles as part of the cloister and shows arched lattice windows.

Sojiji Temple Soin Zenetsuro Corridor, a 33 m Taisho-era walkway before the Daisodo in Wajima, collapsed in the 2024 quake; its timbers await rebuilding in 2032.

Sojiji Temple Soin Hakusan Well, a 1912 open well house in Wajima with fan rafters and three-bearing brackets, collapsed in the 2024 quake and now waits in storage.

The Nishi Kenban Office of 1922 in Kanazawa, a geisha office and rehearsal hall south of the Saigawa Bridge, pairs a clapboarded Western wing with a Japanese hall.

Kosseikutsu in Kahoku, Ishikawa, the Western-style study of philosopher Nishida Kitaro built in 1923 and moved here in 1974, is a fine Taisho "culture house" room.

A small household store of 1948 at a Kaga sake brewer’s compound, faced in Takigahara tuff under a separate fireproof roof. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

This small copper-roofed gate to the garden of a Kaga sake brewer’s house was rebuilt in 1950 after the Fukui earthquake. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Built in 1954 as a brewing hall at a Kaga sake compound, it wraps steel columns and trusses in tuff, a step toward concrete. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Built in 1921 at a Kaga sake brewer’s compound, this rice mill joins two clay stores of different widths under one roof. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Built in 1814 on the old road in Iburihashi, Kaga, this brewer’s townhouse has a clerestory over its rice-steaming bay. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Built in 1925 at a Kaga sake brewer’s compound, this broad store has six ground-floor posts carrying its upper floor. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

A late-Edo sake store joined to the pressing house at a Kaga brewer’s compound, its ridge beam set on inner and gable posts. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

A late-Edo clay store at a Kaga sake brewer’s compound, linked to the main house by a corridor, walled with close-set posts. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

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