Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Kajikaen Chinryutei, a c.1930 guest wing at the lowest point of a former inn in Ome, is entered from above and has no veranda, its rooms open to the Tama River.

Registered in 2020, Kajikaen Watari-Roka is a wooden corridor in Ome, Tokyo, linking four buildings of a former inn down a steep slope by two staircases and a ramp.

A 1930 wooden house in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, drawn by architect Yoji Kanazawa for his father and built by Shimizu-gumi. Registered in 1998 in the scholars' quarter.

A 1930 timber gate with a tiled roof and a 10.7-metre board fence in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. Fine kumiko latticework fills the transom above the tie beam of the gate.

A 29-square-metre weatherboarded studio of 1930 in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, its north-west wall and roof partly glazed. Yoji Kanazawa built it as his own design office.

Built in 1932 in Umegaoka, Setagaya, this 104-square-metre wooden house sets three roof forms over a modern central-corridor plan. Registered in 2009.

A 50-square-metre annexe of 1932 at the rear of a Setagaya plot, holding a ten-mat room with alcove, shelves and writing bay, linked to the main house by a veranda.

A reinforced concrete gateway of 1932 in Umegaoka, Setagaya, with a 2.6-metre opening, pebble-washed surfaces and red panels between pilasters. Registered in 2009.

The Kamiya Bar building of 1921 on a corner in Asakusa, Tokyo, six storeys of concrete, is marked by triple arched windows rising through two floors of the front.

The 1930 main house of the Kamei Residence in Setagaya, Tokyo, pairs a pantiled Japanese block with a French-tiled Western wing set beside the entrance.

The main house of the Kawai Residence in Tama City, Tokyo, is an 1885 thatched farmhouse carrying two tiers of silkworm rooms inside its high roof space.

The main house of the Kawahara Residence in Ota Ward, Tokyo, was assembled from an 1885 school building and carries that school's 1925 clock tower on top.

For two months in 1868 the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, confined himself in this modest shoin at Kan'eiji, the room where Tokugawa rule quietly ended.

Designed in 1927 by Okada Shin'ichiro, architect of the Kabukiza, this kuri at Gokokuin is a rare Japanese-style work by a modern master, and Kan'eiji's first sub-temple.

Kan'eiji's main hall was moved from Kita-in in Kawagoe in 1879, after the first burned in the 1868 Battle of Ueno. A seven-bay Tendai hall, it holds a hidden Yakushi.

Said to mark the seventeenth memorial of his first wife, this 1898 hall belongs to Shibusawa Eiichi, father of Japanese capitalism. Fine carvings fill its interior.

East of the main hall stands the Kanda Shrine Shinsenjo, a 19-square-metre food-offering hall of 1934, built in concrete yet finished in red ochre like a sanctuary.

The Kanda Shrine West Gate of 1934 mirrors the east gate beside the treasure house, closing the west face of the sanctuary with paneled doors and low fencing.

The Kanda Shrine Worship Hall of 1934, 335 square metres, is the largest hall at Kanda Myojin: a five-bay porch, a tiled floor for standing prayer, tatami behind.

The Kanda Shrine East Gate of 1934 links the food-offering hall to the worship hall: a 1.8-metre opening, paneled double doors and 14 metres of angled fencing.

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