Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A small Hachiman shrine of 1930 at the back of a Nagano brewer's estate: a one-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary in a copper-roofed shelter with a gabled hall before it.

A stone torii of 1827 before a Nagano brewer's household shrine, 2.3 metres tall, of the Inari type with collar rings, a flat top rail and unusual two-tiered bases.

A two-storey earthen fermentation cellar of 185 square metres behind the No. 2 cellar at a Nagano brewery, dated to 30 April 1917 by an ink inscription on its beam.

Inside the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji roofed wall of about 40 m and its gates screen the large garden from the working lane of storehouses.

Behind the Tanaka kitchen in Suzaka, this early Meiji two-storey kura hides a fine upstairs room, with long windows and metal eave brackets showing Western taste.

On the street side of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Meiji gate pairs an open gateway with a gatekeeper's lodge, its roof carried on curved beams.

On the south edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this later Edo kura held the rice-steaming kettles of the brewery, its ridge topped by a smoke vent.

Built in 1895 by Suzaka carpenter Harada Torakichi, this two-storey guest hall of prized timber opens onto the Tanaka estate garden in Suzaka, Nagano Prefecture.

At the centre of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, this early Meiji house joins a hipped two-storey living wing to a gabled kitchen wing by an earthen passage.

Built after a 1790 fire, this 31 m brewing storehouse on the south edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, is the largest and oldest of its registered kura.

Called "new" but dated to the late Edo period, this two-storey kura on the north edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, has a roof lined with heavy boards.

At the centre of the north row of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this 22.5 m late Meiji storehouse once turned a waterwheel with water led in by a channel.

At the northwest corner of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this small late Edo kura with a hipped roof turns the corner between two long rows of storehouses.

South of the Reception Hall in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji two-storey pavilion has two upstairs rooms with railed verandas and once stood on the hall's site.

Three early Meiji storehouses joined in a 35-metre row front the street of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano; the middle one has long held the family's hina dolls.

Running 28 m from the brewery to the east edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji kura held farm tools and is named after a lotus pond.

Enclosing the east and northeast of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, these early Meiji walls run 80 m, plastered outside and open inside as bays for storage.

At the southeast corner of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji building shows plaster to the outside and a clay face with wide board doors inside.

In the northwest of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo three-storey kura for documents has a hip-and-gable west end and clay shutters on its windows.

On the north edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this small early Meiji kura shows white plaster outside and bare clay inside, beside a gated passage.

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