Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A 1.5-metre kitchen gate of about 1907 with sliding board doors, a lamp hung between lintel and ridge beam, and moulded brackets facing a Ueno back lane.
A two-metre bracket gate of about 1907, gabled and tiled, with a lattice window above the opening, chamfered timbers, and a black-plastered wing wall in Ueno.
This 25-square-metre kura of about 1907 looks like stone but is brick over a timber frame, rendered and scored with false joints. Its ground floor held the altar.
Built in 1907 as a Nihonbashi cloth wholesaler's retirement house, this timber home in Ueno Sakuragi appeared in a Meiji plan book and was registered in 2005.
Issuiryo on a back street of Kagurazaka, Tokyo, a carpenters' dormitory of about 1951, shows chisel and adze work on its lattices and beams in the postwar townscape.
The North Wing of Imahan Annex in Asakusa, Tokyo, built in about 1950, has a kitchen below and banquet rooms above, with a grand alcove and a phoenix-carved ceiling.
The entrance building of Imahan Annex in Asakusa, Tokyo, a timber restaurant of about 1950, sits back from the lane under a hip-and-gable roof with two rooms inside.
The South Wing of Imahan Annex in Asakusa, Tokyo, built in about 1950, is an L-shaped two-storey guest wing whose rooms use choice timber in ceilings and transoms.
The Imahan Honten North Inner Zashiki, about 1956, is the youngest wing behind an Asakusa sukiyaki house: three rooms noted for kumiko lattice and woven ceilings.
The Imahan Honten West Inner Zashiki, built about 1951 behind an Asakusa sukiyaki house, has three rooms named for and lined with Kasuga, Yoshino and Jindai cedar.
The Imahan Honten East Inner Zashiki, about 1951, is the largest wing behind an Asakusa sukiyaki house: Pine, Bamboo and Plum rooms that open into one banquet hall.
The Echiso Building on Hongo-dori, Tokyo, a thread merchant's concrete corner building of the late Taisho period, is decorated with dentils and window arches.
The Edoya shop in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, a 1924 kanban-kenchiku of a brush maker founded in 1718, has a washed-stone facade with brush motifs and owl reliefs.
The Ome Former Textile Processing Factory is a 1935 timber shed of 715 square meters under four north-lit sawtooth roofs, the largest of its kind left in the area.
Ome's Former Tokyo Metropolitan Textile Testing Station is a 1935 clapboard building with an arched, pedimented door, reopened in 2021 as Cinema Neko.
The Ome Former Receipt-Issuing Warehouse is a two-story Oya stone storehouse of about 1932 that from around 1952 issued warehouse receipts for the goods it held.
The Ome Textile Industry Cooperative Main Building is a 1940 wooden office with a hipped slate roof and an upstairs hall once used for Ome's juried textile fair.
The largest of five tea rooms at Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo. Registered in 2006, it copies Urasenke's Totsutotsusai and pairs 8- and 6-mat rooms with a kitchen.
A 12-mat tea room at Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo, built after the Katsura Imperial Villa, with a corridor on two sides and garden steps. Registered in 2006.
The only hip-roofed tea room at Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo: a 6-mat room with a concealed altar, privy and waiting bench, where guests wait. Registered 2006.
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