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14,499 total Registered Tangible Cultural Properties 47 prefectures
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Higashi Brewery Ryokujuan
Ishikawa 昭和中 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Higashi Brewery Ryokujuan

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.

Hikoso Machiya
Ishikawa 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hikoso Machiya

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.

Hiraki Family Main House
Ishikawa 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hiraki Family Main House

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.

Hirakiya Flag Shop
Ishikawa 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hirakiya Flag Shop

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.

Hoenji Temple Priests' Quarters
Ishikawa 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hoenji Temple Priests' Quarters

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.

Hoenji Temple Main Gate and Tsuiji Wall
Ishikawa 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hoenji Temple Main Gate and Tsuiji Wall

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.

Hoenji Temple Main Hall
Ishikawa 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hoenji Temple Main Hall

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.

Motooka Family Residence Inner Gate and Tsuiji Wall
Ishikawa 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Motooka Family Residence Inner Gate and Tsuiji Wall

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.

Motooka Family Residence Main House
Ishikawa 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Motooka Family Residence Main House

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.

Motooka Family Residence West Storehouse
Ishikawa 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Motooka Family Residence West Storehouse

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.

Motooka Family Residence East Storehouse
Ishikawa 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Motooka Family Residence East Storehouse

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.

Yanagidani No. 7 Sabo Dam
Ishikawa 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yanagidani No. 7 Sabo Dam

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.

Wakakusa Church Chapel (Former United Church of Christ in Japan Kanazawa Church)
Ishikawa 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Wakakusa Church Chapel (Former United Church of Christ in Japan Kanazawa Church)

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
Chiba 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Iinuma Honke Rear Gate and Wall

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
Chiba 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Iinuma Honke Kinoene Storehouse

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
Chiba 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Iinuma Honke Main House

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
Chiba 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Iinuma Honke Detached Annex

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
Chiba 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Iinuma Honke Front Storehouse

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
Chiba 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Iinuma Honke Meiji Storehouse

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
Chiba 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Ishigami Sake Brewery Koji Room

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.