Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A tiny storehouse of around 1923 in Kamogawa that looks like plastered earth but is built of Ōya stone, at the end of the annex veranda. Registered; private.
A two-storey storehouse of 1902 in Kanaya, built of the finest sakura-me Bōshū stone. Now the Nokogiriyama Museum of Art annex, closed Tuesdays; adults 300 yen.
An early Shōwa well in Kanaya, Futtsu: a head cut from a single block of Bōshū stone over coursed stone and a shaft in bedrock, 8.2 metres deep. Registered.
A household Inari shrine of 1953 in Kanaya, Futtsu, only 0.59 metres high, its posts, beams, rafters and doors all carved from stone. Registered; access unannounced.
A 1924 gate of mortared cobblestones at the Suzuki house in Tateyama, 3.2 metres high, its side walls curving to the street. Registered; clearly seen from the road.
A 1924 timber storehouse joined to the Suzuki house in Tateyama, its mortar walls scored to look like stone. Registered; private and barely visible from the street.
A late Meiji two-storey earthen storehouse in Kamogawa that held rice for sake, with white plaster walls, a board-clad base and a deep canopy. Registered; private.
Built in 1924 above Tateyama Port, this Japanese-Western house pairs a pedimented porch with cork-floored rooms. Registered; private, so view it from the gate.
An early Meiji thatched farmhouse in Kamogawa with an earth-floored work area, five rooms and a formal entrance, typical of the Bōsō peninsula. Registered; private.
A 1953 house in Kanaya, Futtsu, with a layered tiled roof, foundations of local Bōshū stone and a plaster acanthus ceiling. Registered; interior access unannounced.
A reception wing of around 1923 in a Kamogawa brewer's compound: two tatami rooms opening onto a full-length veranda and earth-floored eave. Registered; not open.
A late Meiji earthen storehouse in Kamogawa where sake was heat-treated and stored before shipping, with an inspection room on its west end. Registered; not open.
A late-Taisho thatched farmhouse in Chikura, southern Boso, rebuilt after the 1923 quake. A registered property keeping the area's bamboo ridge and segai eaves.
Sunosaki Lighthouse, first lit in 1919 on Chiba's Bōsō Peninsula, is an early concrete tower. A line linking it to Tsurugizaki marks the legal edge of Tokyo Bay.
Built in 1927 as a Tokyo broker's guest annexe, Seiyokan Club in Ichikawa carries flared hakamagoshi gables on three sides. Registered in 1999, now a concert hall.
Rebuilt in 1930 after earthquake damage, Senchakuji's main hall in Kisarazu casts brackets and eaves in concrete while holding the form of a timber Buddha hall.
An early Meiji merchant storehouse in Omigawa, raised against floods behind 60cm plaster walls. Registered 1999, it opens free as a shellfish-purple dye museum.
The well-house at the Someya residence dates to 1922. Under its open frame is a white-tiled brick well, and a plate reads Hoshinoi, the sake the family once brewed.
The Inari shrine at the Someya residence is early Meiji. On high ground, a small nagare-zukuri shrine sits within a gabled shelter for the household deity.
Built in 1847, the main house of the Someya residence in Kashiwa ranks among western Chiba's largest farmhouses, its L-shaped earthen wing recalling a headman's life.
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