Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Tatsukawa Family Residence Annex is a Taisho house in Tsuji, built by a family head who came home after the tobacco monopoly; note its bracketed eaves.
Chiiori, a mid-Edo thatched farmhouse high in the Iya Valley of Tokushima, walled in flattened bamboo, forms the heart of its hamlet and now welcomes guests.
The main hall of Tsubaki Hachiman Shrine in Anan, Tokushima, built around 1856, is a small one-bay hall of complex brackets and dense carving around its doors.
Built in 1862 and only nineteen square metres, Tsurui Yakushido is a three-bay hall above the Iya River, registered in 2019 for its place in the landscape.
Rebuilt in 1833, Tofukuji Main Hall in Tsurugi Town, Tokushima, puts a Shingon worship hall and the priests' quarters under one tiled hipped roof, eight rooms deep.
A rare purpose-built puppet playhouse on a Tokushima high-school campus, built in 1965 with a two-tier stage and box seats, home to a living Awa puppet-theater tradition.
Completed in 1926, this brick-and-granite well-house of barely 21 square metres held the intake of Tokushima's first modern water supply, matching the plant's design.
Completed in 1926, this is the only round building of the Sako plant's three registered structures, a cylindrical brick-and-granite well-house about 5.1 metres high.
Completed in 1926 for Tokushima's first modern water supply, this English-bond red-brick pump station became the prefecture's first registered cultural property.
An 1897 hall in Tsurugi Town, Tokushima, marking station 28 of the Habashikoku pilgrimage. Open on all four sides, it was registered in 2017 with nine others.
A middle Meiji timber workshop at the rear of a tobacco merchant's lot in Ikeda, Tokushima. Its earth and plank floors record how the shredding work was zoned.
An 1891 merchant house in Ikeda, Tokushima, built on the shredded tobacco trade: a 15.9-metre frontage, tiled fire-break walls at each end, a Western parlour.
A Taisho era thatched farmhouse at Kubo in Miyoshi City, standing on an Iya valley slope and registered in 2019 as part of the mountain village landscape.
A 9.4-metre brick chimney of around 1926 at the Nakawa Shoten brewery in Ikeda, Tokushima, registered in 2019, venting the boiler room and a landmark for the district.
A mid-Meiji fermentation storehouse at the Nakawa Shoten brewery in Ikeda, Tokushima, registered in 2019, whose roof of braced logs spans a hall of tanks.
The late Taisho office of the Nakawa Shoten brewery in Ikeda, Tokushima, registered in 2019, with scratch tile on its street front and Western-style office rooms.
The main storehouse of the Nakawa Shoten brewery in Ikeda, Tokushima, built around 1926 and registered in 2019, holding storage, koji room, boiler room and bottling.
Lodgings for the master brewer and team at the Nakawa Shoten brewery in Ikeda, Tokushima, built around 1926 and registered in 2019, with a kitchen range and tatami rooms.
A rare two-story wooden lantern above Tokushima's Yoshino River, built 1884. It packs full temple-hall carpentry — fan rafters, cusped windows, kara-hafu gable — into a 15-square-meter structure registered nationally in 2011.
A single-bay yakuimon of the early Meiji era at Hashikuraji in Miyoshi, Tokushima, this gate fronts the abbot's quarters and is finished with a coffered ceiling.
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