Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A dozo storehouse at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, added north of the No. 3 Storehouse and dated by an ink inscription on its ridge beam to March 1922.
A late-Meiji preparation cellar at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, notable for interior posts built up from bolted planks. Listed as hard to recreate.
The 1909 main house of the Takeshige brewery in Motai, with plastered gables and a passage to the cellars behind. Its walled street front is a famed Nakasendo scene.
A Taisho-era brick cistern in English bond at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, divided for household and brewing water and valued as a mark of the brewery's modernisation.
A timber charcoal shed across the road at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, said to reuse part of the old main house moved here in 1909, holding the Nakasendo streetline.
A Taisho-era four-and-a-half-mat tea room in the corner of a Nagano sake brewer's retirement quarters, plastered like a storehouse to resemble a small castle turret.
A 1909 gate of keyaki timber, two metres wide, that splits a Nagano sake brewery's working approach from the private garden of the main house. Registered in 2000.
A mid-Meiji earthen fermentation cellar of 244 square metres behind the No. 1 cellar at a Nagano brewery, with a Western-style testing room and a koji room upstairs.
A late-Edo single-storey earthen storehouse eleven bays long, raised on a terrace beside the old Nakasendo in Motai, whose white wall shapes the post town's street.
A Taisho-era two-storey retirement house on a stone-walled terrace at the corner of a Nagano brewer's estate, reached by a stepped corridor through the west cellar.
A Taisho-era retaining wall of tortoise-shell and herringbone masonry topped by a white plastered fence, enclosing three sides of a Nagano brewer's retirement plot.
A late-Edo two-storey rice cellar with a set-on roof, standing on the stone embankment where the Nakasendo water channel turns the corner of a Nagano brewery estate.
A white-plastered timber fence of about 1909, nine bays long with a gentle bend, running from the main house along the east water channel of a Nagano brewery estate.
A two-storey earthen storehouse of 1912 with a set-on roof, black-plastered openings and a moulded cornice, facing a Nagano brewer's drawing room across a garden.
A long, narrow late-Meiji grain shed along the west edge of a Nagano sake brewer's estate, its eight doorways closed by twelve stacked drop-boards, a rare survival.
A late-Edo building twelve bays long beside the Nakasendo water channel in Motai, with a two-storey plastered core, a gate in its western bays and a latticed front.
A small two-storey earthen cellar of about 1912, built to match the document storehouse beside it; the rear gate between them divides a brewer's home from work.
An early-Showa L-shaped earthen cellar on the corner across the old Nakasendo from a Nagano brewery's gate, its gable turned to the road to close the street scene.
An early-Showa single-storey earthen cellar south of the old Nakasendo in Motai, its east gable facing the lane to the highway, its clapboard base matching the next.
The late-Edo gate building between the east storehouse and the shop on the old Nakasendo in Motai, its cedar ball and latticed white front the best-known view here.
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