Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An early Meiji gatehouse fronting the Heishi estate in Fukushima City, white plaster over weatherboard, with a latticed door, cattle shed and store either side.

A Taisho-era annex behind the Heishi main house in Fukushima City, joined by a corridor, whose upper room has an alcove, shelves and desk in palm and zelkova.

A 1913 two-storey storehouse in Fukushima City faced in stretcher-bond brick below and white plaster above, with traces of a tatami room still surviving inside.

A gable-entry sake storehouse on a headman's estate in Minamiaizu, Fukushima: 2 storeys, 93 square metres. The family began brewing in 1790. Listed in 1998.

An 1861 thatched farmhouse of a village headman's family in Minamiaizu, Fukushima: 246 square metres, low eaves, heavy lintels, once with a stable wing. Listed 1998.

A Bunsei-era storehouse on a headman's estate in Minamiaizu, Fukushima: 2 storeys, 54 square metres, a raised okiyane roof and board-lined walls for valuables.

An 1861 roofed gate facing the road at a headman's estate in Minamiaizu, Fukushima, reached by a stone bridge older than the gate itself. Listed in 1998.

A 1945 tea house on the Matsumoto estate in Iwaki, Fukushima: an eight-mat reception room, a six-mat tea room with a sunken hearth and a pantry, named Ichitarō-an.

A 1945 hip-roofed study joined to the tea house on the Matsumoto estate in Iwaki, Fukushima: a ten-mat Western room with built-in shelves, by a Hachiōji carpenter.

A late Taisho storehouse for household goods in Kitakata, Fukushima: a concrete ground floor, with a doorway and three iron-shuttered windows on its north side.

A two-storey shop storehouse of about 1928 in Kitakata, Fukushima, with a shop below and three upper windows behind thick earthen doors under a small winged canopy.

A late Taisho storehouse for papers in Kitakata, Fukushima: boarded floors, a west anteroom, iron-shuttered windows and one pair of earthen doors on its front.

Built about 1935, this three-storey timber wing at a Higashiyama Onsen inn holds rooms in the sukiya manner alongside a Western-style conference room.

The oldest of four listed buildings at this Higashiyama Onsen inn, built between 1897 and 1906, its frame by a Tokyo carpenter and its fittings by an Aizu joiner.

Facing the road at Higashiyama Onsen, this early Taisho wing is the largest of the inn's four listed buildings and holds the Kitsune-yu bath and an upstairs hall.

Built in the early Taisho years by a master carpenter of Aizuwakamatsu, this single-storey detached wing set the pattern that the rest of the inn followed.

A 1918 gate of solid zelkova on the street front of an estate in Narukawa, Fukushima City, 3.3 m wide, with a scroll-carved beam and single-board doors and wings.

A mid-Meiji storehouse with formal rooms in Narukawa, Fukushima City, joined to an early Showa altar room with a dais, coved ceiling, cusped windows and fan rafters.

A two-storey thatched house of 1912 in Narukawa, Fukushima City, 24 m long, with an azuma-zukuri roof lifted over the earth floor and four rows of rooms.

A two-storey storehouse of 1928 at the southeast corner of an estate in Narukawa, Fukushima City, with a detached roof, sealed eaves and stepped shutters.

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