Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

This 1904 dozo storehouse stands beside the Uedaya main house on the old Nakasendo, its street wall finished in sea-cucumber tiling below and black lime plaster above.

Behind the Uedaya shopfront in Ochiai-juku, this early-Meiji detached wing faces the garden, its raised parlor framing the view above a thick-walled miso cellar below.

The shamusho of Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine sits on a former Kiso River island in Gifu. This early-Showa office shows fine carpentry and joined the register in 2007.

A steeply arched stone drum bridge of 1936 crosses the pond before the worship hall at Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine. Carved railings render timber forms in stone.

The purification pavilion at Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine fills seven square metres, packing chamfered posts and carved beam-ends into one bay. An early-Showa work.

The great torii of Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine rises 8.2 metres, its timber frame sheathed in copper. Raised in 1935, it carries the plain Shinmei form at rare scale.

A banpei screens the worship hall, a feature of old Owari shrines. This rare stone example of 1937, carved with dragons and lions, recalls Kawashima's Owari past.

The Heiden (offering hall) of Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, was completed in 1929 (Showa 4). This single-story wooden structure with copper-plate roofing measures three bays square in an irimoya-zukuri tsumairi style and was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2007. Together with the surrounding shrine buildings from the same period, it stands as a valuable example of early Showa rural shrine architecture marked by restrained yet dignified craftsmanship.

The Main Hall of Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine in Kakamigahara City, Gifu Prefecture, is a finely crafted wooden sanctuary built in 1928 in the hamaen-tsuki ichigensha nagare-zukuri style. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2007, it showcases superb carvings of auspicious dragons and clouds that exemplify early Showa shrine architecture.

North wing of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, an early-Showa addition to the main house holding the kitchen, topped by a gabled roof vent, part of the estate core.

North storehouse of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, an early-Showa wooden building said by tradition to have housed the household staff, in exposed-pillar work.

Single-story main house of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, built late Taisho by tile maker and first mayor Sato Teiji, with veranda and moon-viewing platform.

Two-story clay-walled storehouse of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, on a three-course granite base, namako plaster below, black plaster above, hinged gable doors.

Small west outbuilding of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, a late-Taisho wooden building said to have been a live-in study, its entrance finished to echo the annex.

East wing of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, a Japanese-style annex by the main house, its tiled bay-windowed room answering the estate's landmark Western annex.

The Kawai Family Residence Main House in Gujo, Gifu, is a village headman's farmhouse of 1805 with an earth floor, a stable, a silkworm loft and carved brackets.

The Kawai Family Residence West Storehouse in Gujo, Gifu, is a 2-storey storehouse of 1885 with a namako tile-lattice east wall and a decorated lintel over its door.

The Kawai Family Residence East Storehouse in Gujo, Gifu, is a plain 2-storey storehouse of 1824 with a detached tiled roof, a west porch and a board-clad base.

The Kawai Family Villa Main House in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu, is a sukiya-style house of about 1941 built in an H plan around an older storehouse, facing a front garden.

The Kawai Family Villa Storehouse in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu, is a Meiji storehouse of 1883 to 1897 inside a 1941 house, with a black plaster crest on its inner door.

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