Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built about 1906 in Tomi City, Nagano, this two-storey farmhouse rears silkworms upstairs and splits its south front between a lean-to and a beam-carried veranda.

Built in 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, this corner storehouse rises from a hexagonal stone wall, its lower walls faced in flat stone and finished in namako plaster.

An outbuilding of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, 11 bays long, closing the east side of the compound with a long sheltered eave along its western front.

An earthen wall of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, raised on a stone embankment and turning its gable end toward the old highway at the compound's corner.

A two-bay yakuimon gate of about 1901 at the southwest corner of a Tomi City compound in Nagano, set within a castle-style right-angled entry of walls and stone.

A one-bay ridge gate of about 1910 in Tomi City, Nagano, set back from the wall line and leading into the back garden between the house and the rearing house.

A single-storey building of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, pairing a miso room with a drying room and closing the gap between the storehouse and the row house.

A masonry retaining wall of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, running from the front gate to the west gate in hexagonal courses that carry the fence above.

A small storehouse built for fumigation beside the gate of the former Kobayashi headman's residence near Nagano, registered for its unusual Western-style eaves.

In Motoyama post town on the old Nakasendō, the Kobayashi inn lifts its upper floor on two rare tiers of projecting beams, rebuilt after the 1869 great fire.

A small early-Meiji wooden hall in Nagano City, the Gomyo Family Detached Parlor has a full shoin set and a high hexagonal coffered ceiling. Registered in 2010.

A tiny Meiji archive storehouse on the Gomyō family's Nagano estate, with white-plaster walls and cloud-carved brackets over its east door. Registered 2010.

A 1923 plaster-walled merchant house on Komoro's old Hokkoku road, now a free exhibition hall keeping its shop counter and trolley rails. A readable piece of the old post town, minutes on foot from the castle ruins at Kaikoen park.

Built about 1800 as a rice store for Nagano's Sakai Meijō brewery, this earthen storehouse later gave up poet Kaya Shirao's papers and now holds his memorial hall.

This late-Edo earthen storehouse at the Sakai Meijō brewery in Nagano held the malt room and steaming hearth for sake brewing. Registered in 2003, it is open to visitors.

In the old post town of Shimo-Togura, Nagano, the thatched Sakai Meijo house was rebuilt after the 1760 fire. It now holds a soba restaurant and a free sake museum.

An early-Showa fermentation storehouse at Sakai Meijo brewery in Chikuma, Nagano, pairing a mud-walled body with a Western king-post roof truss. Registered 2003.

At the Sakai brewery in Chikuma, Nagano, the Taisho-gura looks like a storehouse but was the lodging where the master brewer and his winter workers actually lived.

A late-Edo document storehouse at the Sakai Meijo sake brewery near Togura, its eaves and rafters carefully plastered. The brewery is open as a museum.

The Sakai Meijo Horeki-gura in Chikuma, Nagano, is the oldest brewing storehouse of an old sake house on the Hokkoku Kaido, a late-Edo building registered in 2003.

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