Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A four-legged gate of 1822 at a Rinzai temple in Iyo, Ehime. Bare zelkova, 2.8 metres wide, and dense with late Edo carving: spirals, waves and worked corbels.

A late Edo retirement house for a priest at a Rinzai temple in Iyo, Ehime. Thatched hip roof, a tiled skirt on all four sides, and a bay-window study alcove inside.

Built in 1781 at a Rinzai temple in Iyo, Ehime, this main hall uses the six-room plan of a Zen abbot's quarters. No brackets, no carving, one bamboo-node transom.

The Butokuden in Niihama, Ehime, a timber martial arts hall of 1938, houses kendo and judo halls behind a front of layered gables over a carriage porch.

Built in 1905 and moved here in 1980, this small hip-and-gable house in Kumakogen, Ehime, is the only tiled roof among five registered buildings. Listed in 2003.

A late Edo thatched farmhouse in Kumakogen, Ehime, with a twelve-mat formal room said to have lodged the domain's forest inspector. Registered in 2003.

Built in 1879, the largest of five registered buildings at Kumakogen, Ehime: a four-room farmhouse of 149 square metres under a deep thatched roof. Listed in 2003.

A small hall of 1898 in Kumakogen, Ehime, three ken square under a pyramidal roof, its coffered ceiling painted with local plants. Used by pilgrims. Listed in 2003.

An 1870 granary in Kumakogen, Ehime, its plastered two-storey box roofed with thatch set clear above the walls rather than resting on them. Registered in 2003.

Masaki Honten Meeting Room, Boiler Room and Chimney in Matsuno, Ehime, fills the inner corner of two brewery halls, with a brick chimney rising 14 meters above it.

Masaki Honten Draft Sake Warehouse of 1924 in Matsuno, Ehime, spans four ken on a king post truss and takes steady daylight through windows set in its north wall.

Masaki Honten Brewing Warehouse, built in Matsuno, Ehime in 1918, is a single hall 4 meters high, with two rows of polished cedar posts carrying the floor above.

Masaki Honten Storage Warehouse in Matsuno, Ehime, is a 1920s sake store with steel roof beams over one undivided room and a long plastered wall facing the lane.

Masaki Honten Shop and Main House faces the old Matsumaru road in Matsuno, Ehime. A gabled shop wing joins a hip-and-gable residence, registered in 2017.

The Inner Gate of Matsuyama Castle, a turret gate between the keep and the Entrance Tamon Turret, was partly burned in 1933 and rebuilt in timber in 1968.

The North Corner Turret of Matsuyama Castle mirrors the South Corner Turret on the west front of the keep; lost to arson in 1933, it was rebuilt in 1968.

The Entrance Porch of Matsuyama Castle, a formal step under a rising cusped-gable roof leading into the keep complex, was lost to arson in 1933 and rebuilt in 1968.

The Entrance Tamon Turret of Matsuyama Castle, where the Inner Gate and Entrance Porch meet the keep, was lost to arson in 1933 and rebuilt in timber in 1968.

The Small Keep of Matsuyama Castle, a two-storey turret at the corner of the linked keep complex, was lost to arson in 1933 and rebuilt in timber in 1968.

The Ten-Bay Corridor of Matsuyama Castle is a tamon turret lined with loopholes, linking two corner turrets; burned in 1933, it was rebuilt in timber in 1968.