Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Kanda Shrine Offering Hall joins main hall and worship hall in the 1934 concrete complex, with a tatami floor, gilded columns and brackets in graded colour.
The Kanda Shrine Treasure House of 1934, west of the main hall, recreates a raised log-walled azekura storehouse in concrete, its lowest course carried on brackets.
The Kanda Shrine Main Hall of 1934 is a steel and concrete sanctuary that keeps timber proportions, with degumi brackets and doubled rafters. Registered in 2003.
The Kanda Shrine Mizugaki Fence of 1937 wraps 60 metres around the main hall: lattice above, cross-battens below, copper roof, registered for its landscape value.
The Gallery ef storehouse in Asakusa, Tokyo, a timber merchant's storehouse of 1868 that survived quake and war, is now a free gallery and café by the river.
Rebuilt in 1951 after the war, the main house of painter Kawabata Ryushi has staggered gabled wings, bamboo-faced walls and a 1954 middle gate leading to his studio.
Raised in 1938 and spared by the air raids, painter Kawabata Ryushi's studio is a column-free 60-mat room with a 4-meter coved ceiling for his huge exhibition works.
A tiny concrete-block shrine of about 1955 built by painter Kawabata Ryushi for his Buddhist statues: tiled gable outside, pointed vault and arched windows inside.
Added in 1955, this wing of painter Kawabata Ryushi's Tokyo home centers on a 17.5-mat room for viewing his Buddhist statues, with doors attributed to Sotatsu.
On Tokyo's Niijima, this 8.4-square-metre Taisho outbuilding holds a stone cooking hearth and a bath, its walls and roof cut from island pumice. Registered 2024.
The former Mitsui Bunko stacks of 1922 in a Shinagawa park, Tokyo, a concrete archive with double walls and floors on bookstack uprights, held Mitsui papers.
Built in 1932 at a Showa-dori corner in Ginza, the former Miyawaki Building packs three concrete storeys into 45 square metres on a trapezoid plan. Registered 2025.
The Former Mushakoji Saneatsu Residence in Chofu City, Tokyo, was built in 1955 for the novelist. Heavy mortar outside, light sukiya within. Open at weekends.
The Former Ministry of Education Building in Chiyoda City, Tokyo, dates from 1932 and survives inside a later high-rise. Scratch tile, large near-square windows.
A 1927 concrete villa in Kudankita, Tokyo, pairing Naito Tachu's 24cm load-bearing walls with Kigo Shichiro's Spanish detail. Registered in 2018; now kudan house.
A 1933 concrete boundary in Kudankita, Tokyo: a 4.1m tiled gate and 61m of wall with garage, matching the Yamaguchi mansion behind. Registered in 2018.
A 1902 farmhouse in Fussa, Tokyo, with a six-room plan, a corridor on three sides and an indoor bath. See the wedding room's alcove and a closet opening three ways.
A two-story earthen storehouse of 1904 in Fussa, Tokyo, with a separate metal roof and a battened wainscot. It held wedding trays, bowls and New Year water buckets.
A 1911 storehouse in Fussa, Tokyo, built by the main house's carpenter in the year the family opened the village post office. Its ground floor is a free gallery.
A timber kura of c.1884 in Higashiyamato, Tokyo, later rendered to mimic cut stone. Its oki-yane roof, iron fire doors, and the atelier Yoshioka Kenji never built.
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