Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The No. 3 check dam on the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, a dry-stone dam of 1886, 22 by 8.2 metres, is one of the Home Ministry dams that tamed the basin.

The No. 2 check dam on the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, a dry-stone dam of 1886, 25 by 6.5 metres, is one of the Home Ministry dams that tamed the basin.

The No. 4 check dam on the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, a dry-stone dam of 1887, 20 by 7.0 metres, is one of the Home Ministry dams that tamed the basin.

The gate of Emyoji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1677, is a small tiled timber gate 2.1 metres wide and the oldest of the temple's three registered structures.

The bell tower of Emyoji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1833, is a two-storey tower with leaning posts and a ground floor dressed to look like a flared skirt.

The main hall of Emyoji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1833, is a pent-roofed Buddha hall in the Obaku Zen manner with panelled doors and cusped windows.

A mid-18th-century thatched farmhouse in Okaya, Nagano, with an earth-floored work area in front and living rooms behind, home of silk pioneer Katakura Kanetaro.

An early Meiji plastered storehouse in Okaya, Nagano, northernmost of three kura beside the Katakura main house, with a detached gabled roof and a notable doorway.

A three-storey early Showa storehouse on the road edge of the Katakura homestead in Okaya, its largest kura, once a rice store, with a west eave drawn inside.

The smallest Katakura storehouse in Okaya, Nagano: an early Meiji miso store with a trapezoid plan, an earth floor inside and a deep eave sheltering a work area.

An early Meiji store for everyday tableware at the Katakura homestead in Okaya, Nagano, widest of three kura, angled to follow a bending lane under a lower roof.

A late Edo merchant house on the old Ina Highway in Miyada, Nagano, where a single unbroken roof covers both the dwelling and its soy sauce brewing storehouse.

In Matsumoto's Hofukuji post town the Ozawa family kept the honjin inn. Their gable-fronted main house, rebuilt in 1913, rises around a skylit three-storey atrium.

The oldest of the four Ozawa buildings, this late-Edo storehouse in Matsumoto's Hofukuji town turns its gable to the old road, its base clad in namako-kabe tiling.

East of the Ozawa main house in Matsumoto's Hofukuji town, this early-Showa annex sets stained glass and coved plaster below tatami rooms, listed as a model of design.

On the west edge of the Ozawa compound in Matsumoto's Hofukuji town, this 1908 storehouse shows rafter shapes through its eave plaster, its plan shaped wholly by storage.

A 17-metre steel fire lookout tower raised in 1955 beside the old Ina highway in Tatsuno, Nagano, with an alarm bell under its pointed roof and scrolled eaves.

Built in 1905 at the southern edge of the old post town of Ono in Tatsuno, Nagano, this timber village hall holds a tatami-floored assembly chamber upstairs.

The Kyu-Karuizawa House, a villa of about 1927 owned by a granddaughter of Matsukata Masayoshi, is clad in red clapboard with an Asama-stone fireplace inside.

The former Kitazawa house in Yasaka, Omachi, Nagano, a broad thatched headman's home of about 1849 with a massive beamed earth floor, anchors its hill village.