Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Zenzanji Temple Entrance in Ueda, Nagano, is a late-Edo hall whose formal porch, with its large oigata scrolls, was registered as a model of design in 2024.

Zenzanji Temple Main Gate in Ueda, Nagano, is a late-Edo thatched gate 2.7 metres wide at the top of stone steps, moved here in 1933 and registered in 2024.

Zenzanji Temple Main Hall in Ueda, Nagano, is a mid-Edo thatched hall of 267 square metres with a dragon-carved porch, registered as a cultural property in 2024.

Zozan Shrine Ema Hall in Nagano is an open-sided 1938 pavilion with deep eaves and a gable lattice, for ema plaques and rest. Registered as a property in 2005.

Zozan Shrine Saikan in Nagano is a 1938 priests' hall with a tiled roof, curved karahafu porch, tall windows and Western-style rooms. Registered in 2005.

Zozan Shrine Office in Nagano is a long 1938 hip-and-gable building with a formal shikidai entrance, alcove rooms and many roofs. Registered in late 2005.

Zozan Shrine Worship Hall and Prayer Hall in Nagano is a 1938 hip-and-gable hall with lattice shutters, offering rooms and a rear prayer hall. Registered 2005.

Zozan Shrine Treasure Hall in Nagano is a 30 m2 gabled storehouse of 1938 on a cut-stone base, with barred windows and vents. Registered as a property in 2005.

Zozan Shrine Main Hall in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a 1938 three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary with no carved side screens, registered as a cultural property in 2005.

A single-arch brick bridge of 1900 on the Shinonoi Line in Chikuma, Nagano. Ashlar abutments and over-fired brickwork survive from Japan's state railway era.

The main house of the Takizawa Residence in Chikuma, Nagano, is a 333-square-meter mid-Edo thatched farmhouse. Registered in 2017, it has no central pillar at all.

North of the main house at the Takizawa Residence in Chikuma, Nagano, stands a late-Edo storehouse with a separate okiyane roof and torii-waku framing its openings.

The gatehouse of the Takizawa Residence in Chikuma, Nagano, is a late-Edo thatched nagayamon: hipped at the south end, gabled at the north, following its use below.

The largest building at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, a long dozo storehouse with a monitor roof and three gabled dormers, tied to the founding of the house in 1868.

A tiny iron-roofed shed of 8.4 square metres covering the founding-era round well at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, where soft Mt. Tateshina water begins its work.

An L-shaped Taisho-era rice granary at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, extending the front bin and marking a stage in the brewery's growth. Listed as hard to recreate.

The late-Edo reception room of the earlier Takeshige house in Motai, kept at the rebuilding and joined to the present Main House. Listed as a model of its form.

A tall early-Showa storehouse at the north edge of the Takeshige brewery in Motai, built to season the timber for its sake barrels and marking the compound's growth.

A Taisho-era two-storey earthen-wall building on the west edge of the Takeshige brewery in Motai, once the cooperage where sake barrels were made, now used for storage.

An early-Showa rice-polishing house at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, set where waterways meet and once driven by a wheel on the roadside channel to mill the rice.

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