Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Yatsuzuka Family Residence Waiting Arbor, a 1936 tea garden bench of 8.6 square meters, faces the tea room across the garden. Registered 2015; closed.
The Yamauchi Family Residence Storehouse of 1897 in Shikokuchuo, Ehime, carries a plaster dragon high on its road wall. Moved here in 1959, registered 2011.
The Yamauchi Family Residence Detached Wing of 1926 in Shikokuchuo, Ehime, sets eight rooms in two rows behind a projecting porch. Registered 2011; not open.
A dry-laid stone stand of 27 tiers running 170 metres beside an athletic ground in Niihama, Ehime, built in 1928 by Besshi copper mine staff and registered in 2009.
An erosion control dam on the upper Shigenobu River in Toon, Ehime, built by the prefecture in 901 days and faced with granite from the Seto Inland Sea.
A late Edo period irrigation weir on the Fumoto River in Uchiko, Ehime, 30 metres wide, its dry-laid stone resting on pine logs bedded on the river bedrock.
A late-Meiji wooden clinic on a Kawanoe street corner in Shikokuchuo, Ehime. Registered in 2001, it shows hammer-beam gables and unusually fine stickwork.
Built around 1900 at Masaki in Ainan, Ehime, Warabioka Family Residence Main House covers 228 square meters and still carries its bengara-painted woodwork.
South of the main house at Masaki in Ainan, Ehime, the 1900 Warabioka Family Residence Storehouse packs an okiyane roof and a namako-kabe dado into 27 square meters.
The 1900 Warabioka Family Residence Nagayamon Gate runs 26 meters along a village lane at Masaki in Ainan, Ehime, alternating exposed posts, plaster and boarding.
A mid-Meiji tea shop of storehouse construction in Yuki, Ibaraki. Its walls carry an ochre sand-rubbed finish, and it was moved back bodily when the road widened.
A Taisho shop of storehouse construction in Yuki, Ibaraki. A road widening in 1934 cut a bay and a half from the front, leaving a gable meeting a half-hipped roof.
A single-storey timber reception wing joined to a merchant house in Makabe, Ibaraki, with 9, 10 and 8 mat rooms set in a row and a formal alcove. Registered in 2017.
A late Edo merchant house on Shinjuku-dori in Makabe, Ibaraki. Its shop block of 5 bays is built with storehouse walls, and the main house meets it at a right angle.
A late Edo timber gate opening onto Shinjuku-dori in Makabe, Ibaraki. The opening measures 2.6 meters and the front roof slope is laid in older heavy tiling.
The Arakawa Family Residence Stone Storehouse of 1909 stands at the northeast corner of the plot, its east gable framing an opening beneath a bracketed hood.
Dating from 1868, the Arakawa Family Residence Inner Storehouse is the oldest building on its Shimodate plot and carries a pine and crane plaster relief.
Late Meiji in date, the Arakawa Family Residence Former Shop Storehouse was hauled aside in 1933 when Route 50 was widened. Its exterior is seen from the pavement.
Built in 1892 for the Aratame wholesale house in Shimodate, the Arakawa Family Residence Main House graded its reception rooms by the visitor's rank. It is closed.
The Arakawa Family Residence Main House, built in 1933 in Shimodate, sets an Art Deco mortar facade under a pyramidal Japanese roof. Exterior viewing only.
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