Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Steel girder bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 13 metres long, built over the entrance to the Tsudo ore mill of the mine.
The Akahadayama Motogama Large Kiln in Nara is a late Edo brick climbing kiln, 18 m long with 8 chambers; repairs from 2015 showed it was rebuilt at least twice.
The Akahadayama Motogama Medium Kiln, a 1951 brick climbing kiln beside the large kiln in Nara, has 5 chambers in 9.7 m and reuses old bricks in the Edo method.
This late Meiji wooden building at Akahadayama Motogama in Nara links house and kilns, with a latticed former workshop, a corner tea room, and a truss upstairs.
A two-storey storehouse of 1790 beside the Iioka main house in Uda, Nara, with a namako tile skirt, stepped-plaster doors and a trowelled lintel. Registered in 2010.
A late Meiji rice storehouse on the east edge of the Iioka homestead in Uda, Nara: 9.9 by 4.0 metres, dressed-stone base, namako doorway, plain plaster inside.
A late Edo thatched farmhouse in Uda, Nara, 19 by 11 metres, with a walled takabe gable on the south, a hipped north end and a six-room plan. Registered in 2010.
This 1930 timber building near JR Sakurai Station in Nara holds a kindergarten below and the chapel of Sakurai Saint Paul's Church above, with pointed-arch windows.
A 1967 house in Nara City under stacked hip-and-gable roofs, its central-corridor plan mixing sukiya woven-wood ceilings with new 1960s materials; registered 2018.
An early Showa storehouse in a Nara City garden corner, its front dressed in namako tiling, stepped kakegonuri doors and a plaster relief above; registered 2018.
An early Showa annex behind a Nara City house: two tatami rooms with tokonoma, writing bay, carved transom and cusped window, copper eaves; registered 2018.
An early Showa two-story storehouse in Nara City with a washed artificial-stone base, a black-plaster door frame and plaster carried over its eaves; registered 2018.
The formal gate of a senior headman's compound in Yoshino, Nara: a zelkova-framed yakuimon with a copper roof and twenty metres of plastered wall beside it.
Built in 1773 for a senior village headman below Mt. Ryumon in Nara, this thatched Yoshino farmhouse keeps stopped door grooves and a formal entrance board.
An early Meiji bracket gate in Yoshino, Nara, built for a detached guest wing that no longer stands, with curved rafters and notched weatherboarding beside it.
A late Edo document storehouse in Yoshino, Nara, built to guard a village headman's papers from fire and damp with an air-gapped roof and interlocking doors.
The Ushitani house in Haibara, Uda, Nara, built in 1968 to a design by the Sakakura Junzo office, sets its rooms clockwise in a square plan under radiating rafters.
Uchiyama-ke Kashiya, registered in 2020, is a single-storey Nara house built to be let in the Showa Depression. Grey lime walls, and no earth passage inside.
A small late-Edo storehouse in the Ota brewery courtyard in Tatsuta, Ikaruga. Its sea-cucumber plaster and framed doorway show a care that earned its listing.
A long late-Edo shed at the Ota brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga, linking the old kitchen to the inner storehouse. One side is open, the other a boundary wall.
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