Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The largest store on the Abe estate in Fukushima City: a late-Taisho clay storehouse with a brick-faced base, a 15-mat reception room and a clothing loft.
The Amano Family Residence Rice Storehouse, built in 1926 on the front stone wall of an Odaka estate, has namako walls and a roof frame of curved beams and a truss.
The Amano Family Residence Main House in Odaka, Minamisoma, built in 1911 and altered in 1927, pairs a hipped-and-gabled block with an upward-bowed porch roof.
The Amano Family Residence Main Gate in Odaka, Minamisoma, is a 1927 granite gate: two 3 m pillars with copper pyramid caps, flanked by torii-shaped side gates.
The Amano Family Residence Outdoor Toilet, a 5.6 m² outbuilding of the early Taisho era in Odaka, Minamisoma, has beams carrying a deep eave over a lath ceiling.
The Amano Family Residence Side Gate, Rear Gate and Wall in Minamisoma is a 100 m reinforced concrete wall of 1927, with granite base and coping, and two gates.
The Amano Family Residence West Storehouse in Odaka, Minamisoma, is an early Meiji store for household goods, its clay walls packed with through-posts 30 cm apart.
The Arakawa First Dam in Fukushima City, built in 1937 and registered in 2008, was the first dam of the national sabo program on the Arakawa, 57 m long, 10 m high.
The Arakawa Fifth Dam in Fukushima City, built in 1954 and registered in 2008, is 150 m long, the longest in its group, with crest corner stones angled to the flow.
Built in 1940 in a narrow gorge of the upper Arakawa in Fukushima City, the Arakawa Third Dam is 15 m high, the tallest prewar dam on the river. Registered 2008.
Built in 1951 in Fukushima City and registered in 2008, the Arakawa Seventh Dam carries a plaque on its right wing recording its name, builder and year of building.
Built in 1938 just above the Tsuchiyu Onsen spa town in Fukushima City, the Arakawa Second Dam has the widest crest of the modern Arakawa sabo dams. Registered 2008.
The Arakawa Eighth Dam, built in 1952 in Fukushima City and registered in 2008, tops three dams set within 600 m to ease the river gradient and let greenery return.
The Arakawa Fourth Groundsill in Fukushima City, built in 1954 and registered in 2008, is a 184 m stone-faced sill that fixes the riverbed, not storing sediment.
Built in 1950 in Fukushima City and registered in 2008, the Arakawa Sixth Dam pairs a cobble upstream face with a coursed downstream face, plus a matching sub-dam.
A late Edo farmhouse in Okuma, Fukushima, registered in December 2019. Its six-room plan and formal alcove room mark a household of standing on the Hamadori coast.
An early Meiji earthen storehouse in Okuma, Fukushima, registered in 2019. Its tiled roof stands on posts clear of the mud walls, keeping rain off and air moving.
A tiny plank granary in Okuma, Fukushima, registered in December 2019. Grooved posts, board walls and a raised floor kept unhulled rice dry through the year.
A mid-Meiji gate in Okuma, Fukushima, registered in 2019. It is built over the stone bridge across the farmstead channel, so entering and crossing become one step.
Rebuilt after the May 1934 Tajima fire by an Echigo master carpenter, this two-storey inn in Minamiaizu, Fukushima keeps a curved karahafu porch. Registered 1999.
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