Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A 1933 sabo dam on the upper Inari River in Nikko, 64 m long and 20 m high, whose curved training walls and angled weir turn the falling water. Registered in 2002.
On the second bailey of Karasawayama Castle in Sano, Tochigi, the 1915 kagura hall of Karasawayama Shrine offers a copper-roofed stage for sacred dance.
The worship gate of Karasawayama Shrine in Sano, Tochigi, was built in 1883 at its founding, the oldest building on the mountain, with plain knotty pillars.
Crossing a moat of Karasawayama Castle in Sano, Tochigi, the 1924 sacred bridge of Karasawayama Shrine is reinforced concrete disguised as a stone bridge.
Around the main hall of Karasawayama Shrine in Sano, Tochigi, run the 1909 inner gate and 52-meter openwork fence, their diamond lattice framing the sanctuary.
At the summit of Karasawayama Castle ruins in Sano, Tochigi, the 1909 worship hall of Karasawayama Shrine opens on four sides beneath a graceful copper roof.
On the honmaru of Karasawayama Castle in Sano, Tochigi, stands the 1908 main hall of Karasawayama Shrine, a single-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary of Meiji design.
The Gankaen Front Gate is a mid-Meiji bracket-arm gate 5.5 meters wide in Ashikaga, with plastered side bays and 18 meters of wall that joins the old stable.
The Gankaen Storehouse in Ashikaga is a mid-Meiji earthen storehouse of 21 square meters, the smallest at Gankaen, given a wraparound eave and made into guest rooms.
The Gankaen Club in Ashikaga is a long mid-Meiji stable joined to the Kojitei storehouse, now an earthen-floored reception room that is open to the rafters.
The Gankaen Guesthouse in Ashikaga is a mid-Meiji shoin wing moved from the main house around 1945, with a hipped tile roof and two tatami rooms and a veranda.
The Gankaen Kojitei in Ashikaga is a late Edo outer storehouse by the front gate, now tatami guest rooms, named for a Zen phrase and tied to novelist Dan Kazuo.
The Gankaen Main House is a late Edo four-room farmhouse in Ashikaga, enlarged with a second story and formal entrance in early Showa, now an inn's main building.
The Gankaen New Storehouse in Ashikaga is a two-story earthen storehouse dated to 1862 by a roof-post inscription, with white plaster walls and a black base.
A middle Meiji storehouse at the Arai silk mill in Nogi, Tochigi: ground floor in English-bond brick from a local maker, upper floor in white-plastered earth.
A middle Meiji timber office at the Arai silk mill in Nogi, Tochigi: gabled east, hipped west, with an alcove room, verandas on three sides and fine transoms.
A late Meiji brick storehouse at the Arai silk mill in Nogi, Tochigi, 15 metres long, laid in English bond, with a mid-wall drip course and 3-tier eaves band.
The former Nanma Hotel annex of about 1929, moved from Nikko to Mashiko, Tochigi, was the wartime refuge of the then Crown Prince and keeps its Gozasho room.
The former Anjo main house of 1916 in Kanuma, Tochigi, a blended Japanese and Western home with a stone-look Western room and tatami room, is now a sports gym.
Koko Ichibankan in Tochigi City, a kimono merchant's shop of 1923 among the storehouse streets, wears a copper mansard roof with dormers and stone-faced pilasters.
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