Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Morita Family Residence Okankindo is a late-Edo family Buddhist chapel in Akiruno, Tokyo: a tiny earthen hall under a pyramidal copper roof with a jewel finial.

Morita Family Residence Former Rice Storehouse, a large late-Edo earthen store in Akiruno, Tokyo, known as Hachiken, became the kaiseki restaurant Tōtōan in 1996.

Morita Family Residence Main House in Akiruno, Tokyo, is a late-Edo farmhouse with a zelkova karahafu porch and six-room plan, registered in 2013; interior closed.

Morita Family Residence West Storehouse, a late-Edo earthen store in Akiruno, Tokyo, keeps layered fire doors and full shelving with original ink inscriptions.

Morita Family Residence Front Storehouse, built around 1852 and moved in 1983, holds the corner of the homestead in Akiruno, Tokyo, with fire-shuttered windows.

Morita Family Residence Shop Storehouse, an 1852 earthen misegura in Akiruno, Tokyo, keeps its top-hung shop shutters and now runs as a Japanese sweets café.

Morita Family Residence Miso Storehouse is a small late-Edo earthen store in Akiruno, Tokyo, with a framed plaster doorway and deep eaves, still used for food.

Morita Family Residence Gate is a late-Edo yakuimon in Akiruno, Tokyo, framed in zelkova with a copper gable roof, side walls and a wicket door, seen from the road.

Doctor Mori's House in Bunkyo, Tokyo, a small timber house of 1951, is an early masterpiece of architect Seike Kiyoshi, with a free plan of sliding doors.

The Yasuyo Building at Shinjuku's east exit in Tokyo, a 1968 tower of octagons stacked at shifting angles, is a gem of architect Taniguchi Yoshiro's mature years.

Yutenji's front gate on Komazawa-dori is an early Meiji koraimon made tall by lattice above the crossbeam, with wicket doors. We weigh the 1817 claim.

Built in 1788 and extended in 1800, the Jizo Hall at Yutenji in Tokyo has an outer ceiling painted with Edo fire brigade standards. How to read its roofs and plaque.

A late-Edo yakuimon before Yutenji's Jizo Hall in Tokyo, its ceiling carved with seven matoi standards of Edo's fire brigades and its gable held up by a small demon.

Built as priests' quarters after the 1894 fire and later used as a shoin, this 1895 hall at Yutenji keeps a formal alcove room and is one of Tokyo's few large shoin.

Given by Ten'eiin, widow of shogun Ienobu, the 1729 bell tower at Yutenji in Tokyo keeps mid-Edo bracketing and gable ornament. Its bell escaped wartime requisition.

The main hall of Yutenji in Tokyo grew from an 1860 Tokugawa memorial hall moved after an 1894 fire, then extended in 1898 and 1912. Its roofs show three eras.

An open 1846 water pavilion between the Nio Gate and main hall at Yutenji in Tokyo: inward-leaning posts, bracket sets and a dragon carved at its ceiling center.

My House, the architect Seike Kiyoshi's own 1954 residence in Ota, Tokyo, is a 51-square-metre one-room concrete house registered in 2017 as a standard for design.

Waro Flat No. 4 is a 1936 wooden apartment house on an Azabudai lane in Tokyo, registered in 2019. Its eight dwellings all differ and each gains a south window.

Aoki Family Residence Main House in Mima, Tokushima, is a 1915 retirement house with a hipped-and-gabled roof ringed by pent roofs and walls of grey nezumi plaster.

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