Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Smallest and youngest of three sanctuaries at a Matsumoto village shrine, built in 1851 and moved here in 1915, with a dragon carved in the round on its porch.
The main gate of Jotokuin in Nagano City, a yakuimon gate of the early Meiji period opening onto the street, has carved beam ends and a wicket door in its side wall.
The gate of Shorenji in Matsushiro, a four-legged gate of the mid-Edo period (1661 to 1751) moved here around 1886, resembles the gates of the lords' mausoleums.
The Prince Shotoku Hall of Shorenji in Matsushiro, Nagano, rebuilt in 1912 after a great fire, is decorated inside and out with fine plaster reliefs of dragons.
The bell tower of Shorenji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built around 1912, is an open tower on a tall hexagonal stone base, visible from the street of the old town.
The main hall of Shorenji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1887, is a True Pure Land temple hall whose short-ridged hipped roof is typical of the old castle town.
The worship hall of Shirahige Shrine in Kinasa, Nagano, a timber hall of 1878 east of the Important Cultural Property main hall, has a showy front of layered gables.
A two-storey English-bond brick store of 1895 on Shinshu University's Nagano campus, built for the prefectural office and restored in 2017 as the Red Brick Hall.
Ueda Sericultural College's 1929 wooden auditorium on Shinshu University's Ueda campus, with triangular entrance windows and mulberry, cocoon and moth motifs.
A 1912 timber gatekeeper's lodge with a half-octagonal front beside the main gate of Shinshu University's Ueda campus, moved twice and still a security office.
The former cocoon storehouse of Ueda Sericultural College, a late-Meiji brick building with iron-shuttered windows and two kinds of arch, now the faculty museum.
The main house of the Suyama family, lacquerware makers in Kiso-Hirasawa, Nagano, was raised in 1933 with an upper floor carried over the street on projecting beams.
The West Storehouse of the Suyama family in Kiso-Hirasawa, Nagano, an 1899 granary moved in the early Showa era, has namako-kabe tiling and plain plaster above.
The East Storehouse of the Suyama family in Kiso-Hirasawa, Nagano, raised in 1932, has namako-kabe lower walls, white plaster above and a roof shared with its pair.
The guest house of the Suwako Hotel in Suwa, Nagano, built in 1928 just south of the Katakurakan, is a Spanish-style villa with Italian marble and Taiwan cypress.
The Seiko Epson Founding Memorial Hall in Suwa, Nagano, built in 1945 as the office of a watch-parts maker, is a clapboard building where watchmaking in Suwa began.
Zenkyoji Main Hall in Nagano City is a 1736 Shin Buddhist hall of 621 square meters, with round columns, a double veranda and a dragon ceiling. Registered in 2025.
The Zenkoji Bell Tower in Nagano, rebuilt in 1853, rests on six posts for the six characters of the nenbutsu and hangs a bell recast in 1667. Registered in 2020.
Zenkoji's Niomon Gate in Nagano, rebuilt in zelkova in 1918, houses Nio guardians by Takamura Koun and Yonehara Unkai, placed in reverse order. Registered in 2020.
Zenzanji Temple Priests' Quarters, an 1830 tiled kitchen-residence in Ueda, Nagano, shows beams stacked in three tiers on its gables. Registered in 2024.
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