Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A single-storey inpatient ward of about 1921, linked to the clinic by a corridor, with 7 Western-style patient rooms facing north along a sunny south corridor.

A timber shed of just eleven square metres behind a 1959 bank branch in Miyoshi, Tokushima, built to house motorcycles. Registered as a cultural property in 2023.

Built in 1959 on the old Iyo Kaido in Miyoshi, Tokushima, this concrete bank branch wears washed mortar scored to imitate cut stone. Registered in 2023.

Relocated from an indigo merchant's house in 1954, the Tatsumi Zashiki at Tokushima's Awa Jurobei Yashiki is a 21-mat room of fine timbers, registered in 2024.

Built in 1855 and moved here in 1954, the Nagayamon at Tokushima's Awa Jurobei Yashiki carries a formal hongawara tile roof, and was registered in March 2024.

Completed in 1934 in Miyoshi City, Tokushima, this symmetrical timber hall with arched upper windows and a gambrel roof is the prefecture's last wooden town hall.

Built in 1810 at Kira in Tsurugi Town, Tokushima, this open-sided thatched hall is station thirty on the Habashikoku circuit, a miniature local Shikoku pilgrimage.

This late Edo thatched farmhouse at Tsurui in Higashi-Iya, Tokushima, was registered in 2019 as a model of the Iya house form. It is a private home and is not open.

A mid-Meiji merchant house on the corner where the approach to Ryozen-ji, temple one of the Shikoku pilgrimage, meets the old Muya Kaido road in Naruto, Tokushima.

Completed in 1932, Saienji Main Hall in Yoshinogawa, Tokushima, clads a Shin Buddhist hall in weatherboard and sash windows, built for a priest who wanted pews.

Saikyoji's 1930 sutra repository in Mima, Tokushima, packs a dormer gable, a cusped-gable porch and Edo-period bracket work onto a plastered 47-square-metre store.

The 1843 gate of Saikyoji in Mima, Tokushima, is a three-bay yakuimon whose outer eaves are boarded and carved with clouds, the detail that put it in the register.

Saikyoji's 1858 main hall in Mima, Tokushima, is a registered property. Its 14 by 16 metre plan follows Jodo Shinshu practice, and dragon and tiger guard the porch.

Sadamitsu Theater in Tsurugi, Tokushima, a playhouse of 1932, has a wide arched entrance, a stage with side galleries and a coffered ceiling with old advertisements.

Built in 1928 at Nyuta-cho in Tokushima City, this two-story concrete retirement house hides its structure under stone-like washed mortar. Registered in 2014.

Built in 1896 on Ikeda's old tobacco street in Miyoshi City, this timber townhouse carries a projecting fire wall and sea-cucumber tiling. Registered 2016.

At Nyuta-cho in Tokushima City, this pair of concrete gateposts of about 1928 carries temple-derived capitals and an iron arch with a lamp. Registered 2014.

Built in 1810 at Jizoji, fifth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage in Tokushima, this plastered storehouse holds an octagonal revolving sutra case. Registered in 2011.

The inner sanctuary of Jizoji in Tokushima, rebuilt in 1922 after a fire, sets three halls in a U-shape where some two hundred life-size wooden rakan stand.

This hall of Kobo Daishi at Jizoji in Tokushima dates from 1711 to 1716 and was remodelled late in the Edo period. Carved transoms, celestial women on the ceiling.

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