Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late Taisho townhouse in Matsushiro, Nagano City, its upper floor sealed in white plaster, an early case in the town, with framed shutter boxes. Registered 2005.

The oldest building on the Miyazawa estate in Azumino: an 1885 two-story storehouse with a plastered canopy and namako-kabe tiling, tortoise-shell at the front only.

A c.1920 outbuilding in Misato, Azumino: a former chicken coop and barn along a boundary channel, built with exposed posts and boards so it reads as a roofed wall.

A c.1935 one-story wing in Misato, Azumino, built before the main house: timber-faced toward the house, plastered with namako tiles behind to match the storehouse.

Stone gateposts of three granite courses topped with balls, and 90 meters of stone and roofed walls around a Miyazawa estate in Azumino, c.1920 and c.1936.

Muryoji Temple Priests' Quarters, Matsumoto: rebuilt with the main hall in 1810 to 1812, a long thatched building of 337 m2 linked to the hall by a porched corridor.

Muryoji Temple Shuryo, Matsumoto: a monks' dormitory with a hipped roof once thatched in wheat straw, a central passage and rooms on each side, built in late Edo.

Muryoji Temple Bell Tower, Matsumoto: a small belfry of 1815 by carpenter Miyashita Jiroshichi, with leaning octagonal posts, a railing and carved gable brackets.

Muryoji Temple Storehouse, Matsumoto: a windowless early Taisho-era storehouse plastered up to the rafters, with namako skirting and a tall diagonal stone base.

Muryoji Temple Treasure Hall, Matsumoto: a two-storey fireproof storehouse of 1830 with namako tile skirting on all sides, a plaster eaves band and framed openings.

Muryoji Temple Main Hall in Matsumoto, rebuilt 1810 to 1812 after a fire: a hipped thatched hall with tall posts, deep outrigger eaves and carvings at its sanctuary.

Standing in the wooded grounds of Karuizawa Taliesin beside Lake Shiozawa in Nagano Prefecture, the Meiji 44 Hall is a registered National Tangible Cultural Property—a careful relocation and restoration of the original Karuizawa Post Office built in 1911. Designed by railway carpenter Koda Ryokichi, this two-story wooden Western-style building features a strictly symmetrical facade, hipped tile roof, and the iconic mint-green German-style lap siding restored to its original Meiji-era color. Today it houses Restaurant Sonett on the ground floor and the Fukazawa Koko Wild Flower Museum on the second floor.

The gate of Myotokuji near Matsushiro, Nagano City, a two-storey bell-tower gate of about 1713 with cusped windows, rises above the stone steps of the approach.

The main hall of Myotokuji near Matsushiro, Nagano City, a thatched Soto Zen hall of about 1713, raises a tall box ridge over the typical six-room plan.

The Yamada Ryokan New Building, a 1914 three-storey timber guest wing at Otari Onsen, bends in a dogleg with pent roofs on every floor; registered in 2001.

The Yamada Ryokan New Storehouse, a 1909 store on a stone wall at the inn entrance, names its builder on the ridge beam and has served as a museum since 1979.

The Yamada Ryokan Main Building at Otari Onsen: a late-Edo three-storey timber inn wing with stacked galleries, extended in 1884 and registered in 2001.

The Yamada Ryokan Front Storehouse, an 1885 earthen store at Otari Onsen, wraps even its pent-roof posts in white plaster; registered in 2001 as a model of form.

The Yamada Ryokan Yakushido, a small late-Edo hall at Otari Onsen enshrining the Buddha of healing, shows that spa guests needed a place to pray; registered in 2001.

The Yamada Ryokan Bathroom, a two-storey bathhouse rebuilt in 1926 over an open-air spring at Otari Onsen, keeps a 2-meter cascade bath; registered in 2001.

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