Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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This 20 m tile-capped earthen wall of c. 1875 in Suzaka flanks the gatehouse on a boulder base with polished plaster skirting and hides storage inside.
Built around 1875 on the estate's northwest corner in Suzaka, this slim three-storey plastered storehouse on a stone base, with deep eaves, anchors the old street.
Built around 1875 on the estate's street front in Suzaka, this small two-storey gatehouse has plaster walls and rafters sealed in a wavy soffit, framing the facade.
Once the Maruta Clinic's X-ray room, this late Meiji plastered building in Suzaka links the main house and clinic by a covered corridor, a record of a town clinic.
Built in 1910 as a doctor's consulting wing, this Suzaka building dresses black storehouse plaster with pilasters and framed panels. It now holds inn guest rooms.
This late Meiji three-storey cocoon storehouse of Suzaka's Tajiri silk mill was rolled 180 m in 2000 to escape demolition. It now shows silk displays free of charge.
Hozoji Temple Rear Gate in Azumino is a small 1928 side gate with a curved roof, roofed flanking walls, a flowing-water transom and a cloud pendant in sukiya style.
Hozoji Temple Priests' Quarters in Azumino is a mid-Edo kuri moved from the closed Anrakuji temple in the Meiji era, with a cusped gable porch and white walls.
Hozoji Temple Shoin in Azumino is a small mid-Edo reception hall with two 10-mat rooms, an alcove, shelves and a writing bay, carefully built of fine timber.
Hozoji Temple Bell Tower Gate in Azumino is a two-story gate built around 1793, with a bronze bell under a coffered ceiling, likely by an Osumi-school builder.
Hozoji Temple Storehouse in Azumino is a clay-walled storehouse dated to 1854 by ink on its ridge beam, with a floating roof and a walled lean-to on its north side.
The Masuya Ryokan New Wing is an early Taisho three-storey guest block in Tazawa Onsen, Nagano, whose tiered eaves help complete the inn's eastern face.
The Masuya Ryokan Storehouse is an early Meiji two-storey earthen storehouse by the inn entrance in Tazawa Onsen, on a tall stone base with black-plastered windows.
The Masuya Ryokan West Wing is a small late Taisho three-storey wing on a street corner in Tazawa Onsen, Nagano, joined to the Main Building and registered in 2005.
The Masuya Ryokan East Wing, the inn's oldest block, is an early Meiji three-storey wing in Tazawa Onsen with a curved roof, bracketed verandas and the Toson Room.
The Masuya Ryokan East Storehouse is an early Meiji storehouse facing the East Wing across the street in Tazawa Onsen, with plastered eaves and namako-style walls.
The Masuya Ryokan Main Building, a three-storey timber inn of c.1907 in Tazawa Onsen, Nagano, is the largest of six registered buildings, with round columns.
Three chambers and a cylinder of concrete by the Naraigawa: where spring water entered Matsumoto's first waterworks in 1922, an arrangement not easily reproduced.
A forty-square-metre timber shed of 1922 with a king-post truss, standing among concrete and Art Deco neighbours. It still stores the paperwork it was built for.
Buried under grass at Joyama, a vaulted concrete reservoir of 1,518 square metres held Matsumoto's drinking water and let gravity carry it down to the city below.
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