Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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An 1893 tea room in Kanie, Aichi, built under the design guidance of Yoshida Shokei of Omotesenke. Four and a half mats, 35 square meters. Registered 2011, closed.
A single-storey timber shed in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1909 to hold a three-tier festival float. Its 7-metre eaves and 4.55-metre frontage follow the float.
A mid-Meiji machiya at the junction of two old highways in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. Its plot still follows a late Edo castle map showing a notice board.
The Yoshino Family Residence in Inuyama, Aichi, had five buildings listed in 2013, and all were struck from the register on 10 February 2026 after demolition.
Attached behind Ryusenji's main hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, this 1931 annexe steps up from tablet hall to founder's hall. Carpenter Nakamura Keizo. Registered in 2013.
At Ryusenji in Shinshiro, Aichi, an 1822 hall holding thirty-three Kannon images shares its posts and wall with a 1935 room built for serving tea to worshippers.
Ryusenji's kuri in Shinshiro, Aichi, dates from 1843. Four rooms lie north of the great central pillar; the kitchen occupies what was once the earth-floored half.
Built in 1955 at Ryusenji in Shinshiro, Aichi, this open bell tower of 6.7 square metres has inward-leaning chamfered posts, bracket sets and a coffered ceiling.
Built in 1820 at Ryusenji in Shinshiro, Aichi, this 124-square-metre hall keeps carved rainbow beams and transoms of cloud dragons and lions. Registered in 2013.
Built in 1878 as an exposition appraisal hall in Nagoya and used as Emperor Meiji's temporary seat, this timber hall moved to Atsuta Shrine in 1968. Registered 2001.
Kawabun's 1950 gate and 25 metres of roofed wall front Uonotana-dori in Nagoya, registered in 2005. Added eaves lend rank to a frame only 3.9 metres wide.
A detached room of 1950 to 1952 behind Kawabun's main house in Nagoya, registered in 2005. The 10-mat room covers 63 square metres, the corridor leading to it 52.
Built in 1937, registered in 2005: a 132-square-metre concrete kitchen behind Kawabun's main house in Nagoya, and the oldest of the compound's five listings.
Yoyotei at the Kawabun restaurant in Nagoya: a 21 square metre timber pavilion of 1950 to 1952, listed 2005. Round log posts, a kakekomi ceiling, and visiting.
The 1763 kuri of Renkyoji in Nagoya, a gabled building with plastered walls and exposed gable framing, simple yet dignified. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
The 1812 four-legged gate of Renkyoji in Nagoya's Meito Ward, a heavy timber gate richly carved, with plastered side walls. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
The 1812 shoin of Renkyoji in Nagoya, joined to the main hall by a corridor, with a formal upper room featuring a built-in desk and coffered ceiling. Registered.
The 1882 bell tower of Renkyoji in Nagoya, a hip-and-gable belfry with leaning posts, fan rafters and a carved turtle on its gable. Registered property.
The 1758 main hall of Renkyoji in Nagoya, a hipped Takada-branch Shin hall with a typical deep plan and a drum tower over its entrance. Registered property.
The great gate of Renkeiji in Agui, Aichi, built in 1896, is a grand four-legged gate with close-set brackets and decorated gables on double tie beams.
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