Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A small late Taisho bracket-armed gate, 1.1 m wide, on the east edge of the Abe garden in Mizusawa, with moulded brackets and an openwork transom over its crossbeam.

A late Meiji town house on Setamai's old highway in Sumita, Iwate: rooms strung along an earth-floored passage, railed upstairs guest rooms, registered in 2017.

A 1909 earthen storehouse behind the annex in Setamai, Sumita, Iwate: a gabled okiyane roof on a king post truss, and shuttered windows that switch walls by floor.

The smallest Kanno building: a 1900 storehouse on the south side of the Setamai plot in Iwate, fully plastered with a hachimaki band and a half loft over one end.

An 1899 storehouse at the east end of the Kanno plot in Setamai, Iwate, the largest, joining two kura under one okiyane with Japanese framing and a king post truss.

A 1909 former book and ledger storehouse facing the courtyard of the Kanno house in Setamai, Iwate, set on a stone base with black plaster around its upper window.

A 1910 hip-and-gable wing east of the Kanno main house in Setamai, Iwate, built for silkworms: a low joist-ceiled ground floor under matching upstairs rooms.

At Tono Furusato Village, the Former Kikuchi Kiemon Residence is a straight-plan sugoya, not an L-shaped magariya, its late-Edo thatched roof echoing Nanbu farm life.

At Tono Furusato Village, the Former Kikuchi Residence (Oono-don) is an L-shaped Nanbu magariya where a family lived with its horses, a model early-Meiji farmhouse.

The Former Kikuchi Western-Style Building (1926) in Hanamaki pairs a Western exterior with Japanese rooms. Saved from demolition, it stands in Miyazawa Kenji's home town.

At Tono Furusato Village, the Former Kikuchi Sai Residence is an Edo-period magariya with chestnut posts and exposed-post plaster walls, a rare open lesson in carpentry.

A Meiji-period magariya of 267 sq m, moved from Ohasama to Tono Furusato Village in 1991. Its rooms were rearranged in the local Tono sequence at that time.

A late Edo magariya of 380 sq m at Tono Furusato Village, the largest farmhouse there. Its three linked formal rooms mark the rank of a village headman.

Built in 1897 to a Ministry of Finance standard design, this Ichinoseki tobacco office keeps its wavy gable board and now opens free of charge as a local museum.

Yanagita Kunio lodged here while gathering the legends of Tono Monogatari. Registered in 2023, the inn joins a Tono townhouse to a later, grander guest wing.

On the Takano family grounds in Mizusawa, Iwate, this late-Meiji plank storehouse shows dropped-in board walls and a lobed openwork panel, registered in 2024.

Built in 1931 to mark a father's seventieth birthday, this Takano parlor in Mizusawa has a carved hawk-and-pine transom and a garden veranda, linked to Choei's residence.

Built around 1941 on the Takano grounds in Mizusawa, this guest wing is prized for delicate kumiko glass screens and a coved plaster ceiling, linked to the Kokian.

Named for the pen name of scholar Takano Choei, this tiny 1932 earthen-walled library in Mizusawa has a copper door and iron grilles to guard his legacy.

A plank-walled storehouse of about 1929 in Kanegasaki, Iwate, its boards dropped into grooved posts without nails. Moved by hikiya in 1995 and registered in 2018.