Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late-Edo townhouse in Yanaka, Tokyo, the two-storey Oguraya pawnshop keeps its wide plank door and eight-mat counter room. Registered as heritage in 2000.

A white 1936 school block beside a Tokyo geisha quarter: high windows to the street, wide ones to the yard. It survived the 1945 firebombing; registered in 2023.

Steel trusses carry the ceiling of this 1936 Tokyo school hall, leaving the floor clear of columns, while riveted steel columns hide in the walls. Registered 2023.

A 1938 L-shaped timber lodging house of 13 rooms in Ogikubo, Tokyo, registered in 2009, whose curved northwest corner is capped by a small copper-roofed dome.

The Solfeggio School in Mejiro, Tokyo, a concrete music school of 1967 designed by Yoshimura Junzo for his violinist wife, is an early work in his series for music.

The Tiger Building in Kuramae, Tokyo, built in the early Showa period as luxury elevator apartments, is an example of the rebuilding after the earthquake.

The Taiyo (Maruishi) Building in Kanda, Tokyo, an office block of 1931 by Yamashita Toshiro, is clad in scratch tiles and carved with animal and plant reliefs.

A square two-story clay storehouse of about 1875 in Nishitokyo with a separate roof, a Showa-era washed-stone base and black-plastered doors; registered 2018.

A Meiji-era yakuimon gate with a copper gable roof, paired board doors and wing walls, 2.7 m wide, fronting a Nishitokyo farmstead; a registered cultural property.

A 1927 Nishitokyo farmhouse with two front doors, a central corridor and refined tatami rooms under a Western roof truss; registered as a cultural property in 2018.

An 1875 two-story clay storehouse in Nishitokyo with a separate gabled roof, iron cladding added after the 1923 quake and carved window brackets; registered 2018.

The oldest building of a Nishitokyo farmstead, a late Edo stable raised to two stories before the war, keeping its original frame and open lean-to; registered 2018.

The Taisho-era stone wall of Tamura Sake Brewery in Fussa, Tokyo: 145 meters of waist-high river cobbles turning a right-angled corner along the Tamagawa Aqueduct.

Tamura Sake Brewery's early Showa water mill in Fussa, Tokyo: a timber mill and an earthen store under one metal roof, beside a channel from the Tamagawa Aqueduct.

The c.1822 brewing hall of Tamura Sake Brewery in Fussa, Tokyo: three linked earthen kura, extended in 1918 and 1922, with an octagonal brick chimney in iron bands.

Tamura Sake Brewery Zogura in Fussa, Tokyo: an 1862 two-storey earthen store with a floating tiled roof and two doorways, its ridge set crosswise to its neighbor.

Tamura Sake Brewery's 1830 rice store in Fussa, Tokyo: a small two-storey earthen kura with a floating tiled roof, notched boarding and double earthen doors.

Built in 1928 in a Setagaya garden, this Ōya stone basin runs 1.2 by 4.1 metres, its corner blocks pushing the edging outward into a cross in plan. Registered 2007.

This 1928 stone gate in Setagaya opens 1.8 metres wide, its posts stacked seven courses of Ōya stone under a capstone, with steps, paving and a stone flower bed.

Built in 1934 by Diet member Tsukumo Kunitoshi in Ome, western Tokyo, this timber guest wing has a tea room, salvaged brewery beams and a hall above the Tama River.

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