Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Rebuilt in 1950 after the Fukui earthquake, this Kaga brewer’s guest wing has a formal room with an alcove and coved ceiling. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Dated 1808 by an inscription on its door, this sake-pressing store is the oldest building at a Kaga brewer’s compound. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

A 23-metre wall of boards and black plaster on a tuff base that curves around the corner of a Kaga sake brewer’s compound. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

A Taisho-era timber-framed stone store at a Kaga sake brewer’s compound, moved here in 1956, with one post under its ridge. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The main house of the Hatta family in northern Kanazawa, a tall farmhouse of 1905 built of fine timber, shows a great azumadachi gable to the village lane.

The west storehouse of the Hatta family house in northern Kanazawa, built in 1874, has an asymmetrical roof swept low to the north and eaves carried on braces.

The south storehouse of the Hatta house in northern Kanazawa, built in 1890, is a small store with a separate tiled roof that frames the back of the property.

The Harukiya Clothing Store, located on the historic Ipponsugi-dori in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a two-story wooden Western-style building constructed in 1921 as the Western clothing department of a traditional kimono merchant. Featuring a mortar-plastered façade with semi-circular arched windows and classical cornices, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2014. This elegant Taisho-era commercial building reflects the modernization of the port town of Nanao on the Noto Peninsula.

The Harunari sake brewery house in Nanao, Ishikawa, a tall timber townhouse of 1934 near the start of the Noto road, stands out among its neighbours for its size.

A 1949 row-house gate at a Komatsu sake brewery, with a 4.7 m gateway, heavy double doors, a wicket, and a front of stone, plaster, tall boards and a lattice window.

A small 1948 yakuimon gate at a Komatsu sake brewery, 1.7 m wide, flanked by cut-stone walls topped with earth on one side and boards on the other, 8.6 m in all.

A 1952 four-and-a-half-mat tea room at a Komatsu sake brewery, lit by shoji and a tall guest door under a mixed ajiro ceiling; closed for earthquake repairs.

A tiny 1949 wooden inspection room between two storehouses at a Komatsu sake brewery, with white plaster walls and a stained-glass bay window on its south side.

A small 1949 stone koji room at a Komatsu sake brewery, its local tuff walls laid to the eaves and topped by a light roof whose timber frame shows in the gables.

Built in 1949 between two stone stores in Komatsu, this sake workshop joins a yeast-starter room and boiler area under layered roofs beside a brick chimney.

Rebuilt in 1936 after a fire, this shop and home at a Komatsu sake brewery keeps an earthen-floored front, a family oi room and 4 grid rooms with carved transoms.

A 1948 stone-faced tool storehouse at a Komatsu sake brewery, with Western arches over its openings and a dragon and tiger carved between its stacked windows.

A 1949 timber-framed sake storehouse in Komatsu clad in local Kanagaso stone, 19 m long, with a simplified eave band and a keystoned arch over its doorway.

Built in 1868 and moved in 1902, this earthen storehouse in Komatsu outlasted a 1936 fire and pairs tall clapboard walls with stone window frames and base.

A 1946 stone sake storehouse in Komatsu, 15 m long, built of local Kanagaso tuff with an Edo-giri dressed base and a plastered, truss-roofed interior.