Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1948 guest room at a Komatsu sake brewery with a deep garden eave, a large alcove, a bell-arched writing bay and a coved coffered ceiling; closed for repairs.

The Hikoso Machiya in Kanazawa, a two-storey house of about 1931 with a traditional azumadachi gable, is now used by the Kanazawa Machiya Research Association.

The Hiraki Family Main House in Kanazawa, a late Edo samurai house in the old foot soldiers' quarter, stands between street, garden and an irrigation channel.

The Hirakiya Flag Shop in Kanazawa is a townhouse of the late Edo period (1830 to 1867) by the Sai River, keeping the layout of an old castle-town shop.

The priests' quarters of Hoenji, the Maeda family temple in Kanazawa, is a two-storey kuri of about 1927 with a traditional ground floor and a large reception floor.

The entrance of Hoenji, the Maeda family temple in Kanazawa, is a large gate of about 1899 with a dragon-carved strut, flanked by tiled walls on fine stone bases.

The main hall of Hoenji, the Maeda family temple in Kanazawa, was rebuilt in about 1872: a large Soto Zen hall with a curved-gable porch and eight rooms inside.

A c.1902 timber gate and roofed earthen wall in Kanazawa that divide the main house's north garden from its forecourt. Gate 2.0 m wide, wall 5.4 m. Registered 2006.

A two-storey 1882 house in Kanazawa, moved in 1902, with its gable end, large door and bracketed eaves facing forward. Registered as a cultural property in 2006.

Kanazawa's Motooka West Storehouse of 1872, the oldest building on the plot: cut-stone footings, a stone-faced base and a corridor to the house. Registered 2006.

A 1934 two-storey earthen storehouse in Kanazawa, finished in artificial stone, with iron-shuttered windows facing the main house's forecourt. Registered in 2006.

Built in 1928 at the foot of the Yanagidani ravine on Mount Hakusan, this 60.5-metre dam is described as Japan's first stepped erosion dam. It was listed in 2012.

Built in 1891 for a church in central Kanazawa and moved to Wakakusa-machi in 1955, this timber chapel leaves its light roof trusses open to view. Registered 2006.

Iinuma Honke Rear Gate and Wall in Shisui, Chiba, dates from about 1954. A single-bay yakuimon 2.8 metres wide carries a wicket door, with short flanking walls.

Iinuma Honke Kinoene Storehouse in Shisui, Chiba, arrived about 1940 from a closed plant. A queen post truss spans it and its reception room has a marble floor.

Iinuma Honke Main House in Shisui, Chiba, keeps a mid-Edo plan of six rooms in two rows behind a Taisho extension. It now works as the Kinoene Omoya restaurant.

Iinuma Honke Detached Annex in Shisui, Chiba, dates from about 1940. Formal rooms of 10 and 8 mats sit beside a corner tea room of bent, bark-covered timber.

Iinuma Honke Front Storehouse in Shisui, Chiba, is an early Meiji plaster storehouse of just 28 square metres, carrying a roof frame of heavy bent timber.

Iinuma Honke Meiji Storehouse in Shisui, Chiba, is a mid-Meiji brewing hall of 291 square metres, its single space carried on log posts 36 centimetres thick.

Ishigami Sake Brewery Koji Room in Choshi: an 1896 koji chamber of 30 cm Ōya stone, lined with cedar, packed with rice husks and housed inside a timber shed.

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