Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The earthen walls of Renkeiji in Agui, Aichi, built in 1951 on either side of the great gate, run 17 metres on high stone bases and frame the temple front.
The main hall of Renkeiji in Agui, Aichi, built in 1811, is a large Shin Buddhist hall with a three-bay porch and an inner sanctuary under a coved ceiling.
A 1926 former cinema in Uchiko, Ehime, with a stepped Western-style front, a veranda and a hexagonal drum tower; closed in 1965, it now opens for events and visits.
An early-Taisho clay-walled brewery on a street corner in Yoshida, Uwajima, with a rough granite base, latticed windows and a small canopy on iron brackets.
A late Edo stone sluice on the shore of Omishima in Ehime, its granite wall curving 7.8 meters around the outlet. The channel was rebuilt, yet it still drains today.
A late Edo stone sluice on the shore of Omishima in Ehime that drained a salt field. Its dry-laid granite wall runs 12 meters, diagonal below and coursed above.
Kigo Shichiro's symmetrical 1924 concrete office at the wharf gate of Mitsu Port in Matsuyama, faced in orange and white tile; a symbol of Mitsuhama shipping.
A 9.5-metre concrete lantern of 1931 beside a pilgrimage road at Saijo in Ehime, registered in 2002, with jewel finial, cap and four-way fire chamber all cast.
A walled frontage of about 1893 in Kihoku, Ehime. Undressed stone runs 44 metres beside the entrance steps, carrying a tiled earthen wall of 26 metres. Listed 2012.
A Taisho-era water intake in Kihoku, Ehime. A dressed-stone arch 2.4 metres high opens onto an unlined shaft 21.8 metres deep, fed by a spring. Listed 2012.
An earthen-walled storehouse of about 1893 in Kihoku, Ehime. Charred cedar boards, lime plaster at the windows, a roof set clear of the walls. Registered 2012.
A single-storey wooden house of about 1893 at the foot of a hill in Kihoku Town, Ehime. Formal rooms in front, kitchen behind; 236 square metres. Registered in 2012.
A sandstone retaining wall of the middle Meiji era in Kihoku, Ehime, running 100 metres along the south edge of the estate, up to 2.7 metres high. Listed 2012.
Imabari Radium Onsen in Ehime is a reinforced-concrete public bathhouse of the late Taisho era, with a stacked polygonal tower and octagonal domes over its baths.
Built in 1938 at Ainan in Ehime, the Imura Family Residence Main House splits at its door: Japanese rooms west, drawing room and green tiles east. Registered 2003.
A late Edo dry-laid wall at Uchiko in Ehime: 6 metres high, 31 metres at the base, green schist slabs with seven large blocks set into the face. Registered in 2006.
Uchinoura Public Hall, a 1937 timber hall on Kawanoishi harbour in Yawatahama, Ehime, sets a washed-mortar Western face over a tatami room. Registered in 2001.
Built in late Edo and moved here in Meiji, Umenishiki Yamakawa Brewing Storehouse is said to have been an Iyo-Saijo domain boathouse. Registered in 2001.
Umenishiki Yamakawa Main House fronts the old Kawanoe road in Shikokuchuo, Ehime: a mid-Meiji brewer's shop and home under one tiled roof. Registered in 2001.
Umebijin Sake Brewery Boiler Room and Chimney in Yawatahama, Ehime, dates from 1928: a king-post truss, a monitor roof for steam, and a brick chimney.
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