Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1930 in Kanegasaki, Iwate, this two-story wooden house pairs a ten-mat zashiki and veranda with mortar walling and a round window. Registered 2018.

The former Tohoku crushed stone factory of 1924 in Ichinoseki, Iwate, crushed limestone for farm lime and is linked with the poet and writer Miyazawa Kenji.

The former treasure hall of 1925 in central Tono, Iwate, now a museum store, was built in concrete against fire and earthquakes, the first in the Tono area.

The 1908 villa of the Nanbu family, former lords of Morioka, has a front that is Japanese on one side and Western on the other, and is now a community centre annex.

This timber Catholic church of 1912, now on a school campus in Morioka, Iwate, has a Romanesque nave of columns, arches and vaults and a belfry over its front.

Residence No. 1 of the army remount depot at Rokuhara in Kanegasaki, Iwate, a field officers' house of about 1911, has a weatherboarded front and two entrances.

Residence No. 3 of the army remount depot at Rokuhara in Kanegasaki, Iwate, built in 1911, shares the brick base, weatherboarding and sash windows of its neighbours.

Residence No. 2 of the army remount depot at Rokuhara in Kanegasaki, Iwate, built in 1911, is a plainer officers' house with Japanese rooms on the south.

The first main building of the latitude observatory at Mizusawa, Iwate, built in 1900 as one of six world stations for latitude work, is now a memorial hall.

The zenith telescope room of the Mizusawa latitude observatory in Iwate, built in 1899 in steel, has a roof that slides on rails to open over its stone pier.

The target pier and shelter of the Mizusawa latitude observatory in Iwate, built in 1900 to calibrate its zenith telescope, pair a brick pier with a timber shelter.

Joined earthen storehouses of 1918 and 1931 at a Ninohe merchant house, Iwate, with white plaster, namako tiling and black doors edged in white. Registered 2009.

An early Showa timber grain store at a Ninohe merchant house, Iwate, in white plaster with iron doors, board-lined inside under a trussed roof. Registered 2009.

The late Taisho home of a Ninohe timber merchant in Iwate, its posts sealed in thick plaster walls and its shutters clad in copper against fire. Registered 2009.

An early Showa warehouse at a Ninohe merchant house, Iwate, faced in washed artificial stone with three iron doors upstairs, beside the old shop. Registered 2009.

A late Taisho timber shop in Ninohe, Iwate, built for a forestry and timber merchant, with plastered eaves and 15- and 20-mat rooms upstairs. Registered in 2009.

Brick fire walls 45 metres long at a Ninohe merchant house in Iwate, rising to 3.7 metres near the street to stop fire spreading from neighbours. Registered 2009.

Late Taisho granite gateposts and an Edo-kiri stone wall giving a formal front to a merchant house in Ninohe, Iwate, easily seen from the street. Registered in 2009.

A late Taisho corridor linking shop and home at a Ninohe merchant house in Iwate, with a tiled dado, many windows and copper-clad fire shutters. Registered 2009.

The Count Goto Memorial Community Hall in Oshu, Iwate, built in 1941 to honour Goto Shinpei, is held to be Japan's first community hall, with a half-timbered gable.

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