Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A Taisho-era stone storehouse in Koga, Ibaraki, walled in cut Oya tuff with single long stones at each doorway. Registered in 2000, it now holds a small hall.
The one timber building among five storehouses in a Koga merchant compound, dated to the early Meiji era. Registered in 2000 for the joinery of its rooms.
An earthen-walled storehouse on a Koga crossroads, dated by an ink inscription to 1863 and moved here from Koga Castle after its abolition. Registered in 2000.
The smallest and reputedly oldest of the six registered storehouses in a Koga merchant compound, dated only to the middle Edo period. Registered in 2000.
An 1858 storehouse in a Koga merchant compound, part-finished in black plaster and said to have been built as relief work. Registered in 2000, now a display room.
A late Edo storehouse said to have been moved here from Koga Castle and reopened as a shop, keeping its dense post spacing and exposed beams. Registered in 2000.
A Taisho house of around 1921 behind the family shop in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its plan sets a 6-mat Western room beside a 10-mat altar room. Registered in 2004.
A late Meiji storehouse at the back of the Sakurai plot in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, said to have held pawned goods. Black plaster, worked eaves. Registered in 2004.
An early Meiji merchant house in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, registered in 2004. Its 2nd floor was added around 1921, and only the west gable is plastered against fire.
A mid-Meiji storehouse behind the main house in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. White lime plaster, boards on 3 of its 4 faces, iron shutters upstairs. Registered in 2004.
Sato Family Residence Front Gate in Makabe, Sakuragawa City is an early Meiji yakuimon 2.5 meters wide, with carved gegyo pendants and inlaid umeki on its posts.
The Shima Family Residence Main House in Shirosato, Ibaraki, is a thatched Edo farmhouse of two wings set at a right angle, opened free on its monthly smoking day.
The Jushichiya footwear shop of 1930 in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a kanban-style building whose flat front has tall windows and a Lombard band below the eaves.
The Sugaya Cosmetics Store in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a timber shop-house of 1930 whose front is dressed with classical pilasters, a dentilled cornice and a pediment.
A late Meiji yakuimon gate at the east end of Kamijuku-dori in Makabe, Sakuragawa, the Suzuki Family Residence Front Gate has a gabled roof and 2.4 metre opening.
An early Meiji gatehouse at Furushiro in Makabe, Sakuragawa, the Suzuki Brewery Nagayamon Gate covers 64 square metres beneath a deeply eaved hipped tiled roof.
The timber wing behind the storehouses of a kimono fabric wholesaler in Yuki, Ibaraki: two tatami rooms of about 1883, one holding the family altar. Registered 2014.
A small sleeve storehouse of 1883 standing gable-end to the street beside the shop of a former kimono fabric wholesaler in Yuki, Ibaraki. Registered in 2014.
A tall two-story shop storehouse of about 1883 facing west onto the old merchant street of Yuki, Ibaraki, with a black plaster cornice at the eaves. Registered 2014.
The Suzuki Boseki Main House in northern Yuki, Ibaraki, is a registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, built in 1906 alongside its companion storefront warehouse. Two surviving ridge tags record its construction details, and the building forms part of one of the Kanto region's finest surviving Meiji-era merchant streetscapes.
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