Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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An early Showa board fence along the inner garden of the Hirao guest house in Morio, Toyooka: 28 metres of vertical boarding on a low rubble retaining wall.
A mid-Meiji rainwater basin among the Hirao storehouses in Morio, Toyooka: 1.8 metres square in cut stone with a brick rim and a 15-metre drain westward.
A mid-Meiji partition and wicket gate by the Hirao treasure storehouse in Morio, Toyooka: a 10-metre board fence dividing two gardens, clad differently on each side.
A mid-Meiji wall and gate beside the Hirao retirement house in Morio, Toyooka: 8.6 metres of boarding left open at the top, with a 1.6-metre bracketed gate.
An early Showa wall and gate on the north side of the Hirao inner garden in Morio, Toyooka: 25 metres of boarding on a stone footing and a 1.8-metre bracketed gate.
Running 164 metres along the Ajiwara River in Hamasaka, Hyogo, this wall mixes rough Edo masonry with cut stone of 1912 and keeps a boat landing and steps.
A 1928 single-bay nagare-style shrine of just 1.0 m² west of Nagata Shrine's main hall in Kobe, paired with the Amaterasu Shrine to the east. Registered 2002.
A later Edo noh stage at Tomari Shrine in Kakogawa, Hyogo, registered in 2008, with a 4.9-metre main stage, side and rear stages, a bridgeway and bold exposed beams.
A 1936 drum house at Tomari Shrine in Kakogawa, Hyogo, registered in 2008, with a large north doorway, earthen walls clad in charred boards and a two-form roof.
A tiny Meiji-period subsidiary shrine at Tomari Shrine in Kakogawa, Hyogo, registered in 2008, matching the Sumiyoshi shrine beside it in size, form and carving.
A late Edo offering hall at Tomari Shrine in Kakogawa, Hyogo, registered in 2008, linking the kagura hall to the main hall, with a single tatami room inside.
The Kiyomizudera Temple Guest Hall in Kato, built in 1917, is a three-room wing for visitors with verandas on three sides under a low hip-and-gable roof.
The Kiyomizudera Temple Honbo in Kato, built in 1917, houses the temple office under one great gabled roof, with a karahafu porch facing the Great Lecture Hall.
The Kiyomizudera Temple Great Lecture Hall in Kato, rebuilt in 1917, is a seven-bay hall under a pyramidal tiled roof holding the image of pilgrimage stop 25.
The Kiyomizudera Temple Bell Tower in Kato, dated 1919, is a tiled belfry on a flared skirt base, set on the stairs and hung with a bell designed by Takeda Goichi.
The Kiyomizudera Temple Konpon Chudo, rebuilt in 1917 on Mount Mitake in Kato, is a five-bay hall with a karahafu porch that keeps a hidden Eleven-Headed Kannon.
Asahikawa's last surviving army riding hall, built in brick for winter cavalry drill. Iron Fink trusses span it, and a bus company services vehicles inside it today.
Built in 1899 to season carriage timber, this square brick building in Asahikawa shows Flemish bond walls, three-centred gable arches and overburnt brick trim.
Where carriage woodwork was cut and fitted from 1899, this Asahikawa brick workshop pairs broad arched windows with slit openings and now serves as a public hall.
A 1961 annex joined to the 1936 main block of the Abashiri City Museum in Hokkaido. Tanoue Yoshiya designed both; the newer one shows his postwar manner.
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