Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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An 1859 storehouse on the Ichiboshi-tei estate in Ikusaka, Nagano, the last of three, with a black-plaster quince motif and a torii door frame. Registered 2019.
A late Edo gate on the Ichiboshi-tei estate in Ikusaka, Nagano, with a bracket-supported tiled roof, zelkova doors and lattice windows in quince-shaped frames.
The newest building on the Ichiboshi-tei estate in Ikusaka, Nagano: an early Showa shed open on the yard side, with double doors onto the road. Registered 2019.
Built about 1908 to hold food and fodder for the Matsumoto 50th Infantry Regiment, this 36.3-metre brick warehouse in English bond now serves Shinshu University.
A two-storey timber summer house of about 1930 in old Karuizawa, Nagano, with a wide sunroom facing south and rooms set around a hearth of undressed river stones.
A 1921 head office of an Okaya silk filature in Nagano. Timber-framed but clad in brick tile, it saw the 1927 Yamaichi strike and now houses a weaving workshop.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Back Gate, Kitchen Miso Storehouse and Office, c.1880, Nakano: a zelkova gate said to come from Iiyama Castle, and an office.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Okuzashiki, mid-Meiji guest rooms in Nakano, Nagano, moved in 1951: a cedar alcove post, flat shoin and verandas facing a garden.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Sake Shop, a mid-Meiji 2-storey building in Nakano, Nagano, sold the family's sake until 1912; its timber frame is left exposed.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Pawn Storehouse and Archive Storehouse in Nakano, Nagano: twin 1848 stores under one roof, rebuilt after the 1847 earthquake.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Shinzashiki, a 1953 guest wing in Nakano, Nagano: an anteroom and 8-mat room, a crooked alcove lintel and a cusped window.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Corner Storehouse, a late Edo grain store at the northwest corner of the estate in Nakano, Nagano, keeps timbers scorched in 1870.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Rokkengura and Nikengura Storehouses, a c.1880 grain store in Nakano, Nagano: 26 metres under one roof with three garden doors.
A 23-metre nagayamon in Matsushiro, Nagano City, with a 2.1-metre doorway, barred yoriki-mado and projecting lattice windows. Registered nationally in 2014.
A late Taisho shoin in Matsushiro, Nagano City: six rooms in two files, a tea room with a round window, and a floor raised to frame the pond garden beyond.
A small 1940 munamon gate in Matsushiro, Nagano City, 1.9 metres across, built as the entrance to a stele honouring the Matsushiro domain scholar Yamadera Jozan.
Registered in 2005, this 1949 timber schoolhouse in Iida, Nagano, runs 64 metres under a tiled gable, its hipped porch fronting a building villagers raised by hand.
Registered in 2005, the north wing of Iida's Kinehara school holds seven 1949 classrooms behind ranma-topped sliding sashes, and a 2.25-metre rear corridor.
The Former Yokouchi Clinic of 1932 in Matsumoto, Nagano, joins a Western-style clinic with a columned porch to a Japanese house and keeps its consulting room.
The former Reischauer villa in Karuizawa, Nagano, a late Meiji summer house of August K. Reischauer, is clad in cedar bark with a fireplace of Asama stone.
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