Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Two early Taisho gates at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara: a street nagayamon with lattice window and glass doors, and an inner gate with an osa-ranma transom.
The Minami Family Residence Main House in Gose, Nara, is a yamato-mune farmhouse of 1751-1830 with a steel-sheathed thatched roof and six rooms in two rows.
The Minami Family Residence Tool Storehouse in Gose, Nara, is a two-storey kura of 1830-1868 whose white plaster walls run up into the eaves on the east edge.
The Minami Family Residence Annex Reception Wing in Gose, Nara, is a guest annex of 1830-1868 with connecting tatami rooms, an alcove and a cusped-window desk niche.
The Minami Family Residence Wooden Fence in Gose, Nara, is a 24-meter roofed wall of 1912 on a cut-stone base, with bracketed eaves and street-side boarding.
The Minami Family Residence Gatehouse and Garden Gate in Gose, Nara, is a 1912 nagayamon with storerooms beside the gateway and a sliding gate in a short wall.
The Yamada Liquor Store inner storehouse dates from 1812 like the main house and was moved intact by hikiya in the Taisho period. Plastered walls and barred windows.
The Yamada Liquor Store teahouse zashiki is a Taisho sukiya-style guest wing hipped at one end and gabled at the other, open to the garden on both floors.
Built in 1812 after a river flood, the Yamada Liquor Store main house keeps its shop front on the Hasedera approach, with living rooms behind and two garden rooms.
Joined to the main house beside the gate, the Yamada Liquor Store tea room has grey plaster walls, a hipped roof and wide shoji opening onto the garden, in 8.7 sq m.
Set back from the street wall, the Yamada Liquor Store garden gate is the Taisho entrance to Haseji Teahouse, with angled sleeve walls and a copper canopy.
Running 28 meters from the main house along the Hasedera approach, the Yamada Liquor Store wall pairs vertical boards with grey plaster and frames the garden gate.
A 1949 cylindrical water divider in Nanto, Toyama, registered in 2020, the prefecture's oldest, sharing irrigation water fairly among three channels on the Tonami Plain.
A 1935 connecting hall joining the 1883 main hall to the offering hall of Ariso Sho Hachimangu Shrine in Takaoka, with plain square posts, lattice shutters, blinds.
The 1935 front hall of Ariso Sho Hachimangu Shrine in Takaoka, whose worship and offering halls share one many-gabled yatsumune-zukuri copper roof with chigi.
The 1883 main hall of Ariso Sho Hachimangu Shrine in Takaoka: a hip-and-gable roof with chidori-hafu front and back, carved brackets, and chigi on the copper ridge.
From 1860, the stone first torii of Ichihara Shrine in Namerikawa is 4.6 m wide with inward-leaning pillars and capital collars, its oldest registered structure.
Built in 1921 where the approach of Ichihara Shrine in Namerikawa turns to the hall, this stone second torii is a Nakayama type whose tie beam stops at the pillars.
Built around 1915 at Ichihara Shrine in Namerikawa, this worship hall runs four rooms in a row under hip-and-gable and gable roofs, a late work by Iwaki Shonojo.
Built in 1872 on a raised stone wall at Ichihara Shrine in Namerikawa, this small all-zelkova main hall has a karahafu porch and side panels by Inami carvers.
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