Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An 1893 gabled block behind the main hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, housing a founder's hall with a cusped niche and a memorial tablet hall. Registered.

A tiny late Edo sutra storehouse at Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, 10 shaku square with a pyramidal roof and plastered walls. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The 1810 kitchen and study hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, a 702-square-metre building with great grid beams and a courtyard. Registered property.

The 1794 four-legged gate of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, built entirely of zelkova by Tatekawa-school carpenters and decorated with carving. Registered property.

The 1722 monks' hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, linked to the meditation hall and forming the west side of the monastery. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The 1722 meditation hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, whose side bays once served as meditation platforms; probably thatched at first. Registered property.

A 1926 guardian shrine at Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, enshrining Dakiniten, merged with Inari worship, in a small hall with an inner shrine. Registered property.

The 1697 main hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, a hip-and-gable Soto Zen hall whose front veranda once served as a passage linking the monastery. Registered.

A townhouse of 1900 on Honmachi-dori in Inuyama, Aichi, built on a corner: plain gable north, hipped gable south, eaves wrapping round. Registered in 2005.

The priests' quarters of Enmyoji in Inuyama, Aichi, a late Edo townhouse of the castle town moved here in the Meiji period, keeps its curved roof and front lattices.

The main gate of Enmyoji in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1937 by Ito Heizaemon, is a four-legged gate with a cusped gable and two tiers of carved beams and struts.

The bell tower of Enmyoji in Inuyama, Aichi, from the mid-Edo period, is an open Zen-style tower on a stone base with close-set brackets and strongly upturned eaves.

The monks' quarters of Enmyoji in Inuyama, Aichi, from the mid-Meiji period, is a carefully built reception building with a gabled formal entrance of fine timber.

The main hall of Enmyoji in Inuyama, Aichi, from the early Edo period, is a Jodo Shinshu hall with a rear-door inner sanctuary whose square pillars keep early forms.

The Okura Park Thatched Gate in Obu, Aichi, fronted Okura Kazuchika's Taisho villa. Moved in 1979 and still rethatched by Tono craftsmen, it was registered in 2015.

The Okura Park Rest House in Obu, Aichi, was the guest annexe of Okura Kazuchika's Taisho villa. Four tatami rooms step around a central pantry; registered in 2015.

A four-and-a-half-mat tea room of 1826 hidden behind a house in Inuyama, Aichi. Woven ceiling over the host, boarded over guests. Registered in 2013, open yearly.

The Otani Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Toyokawa, Aichi is a remarkable two-story reinforced concrete granary built in 1928. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2017, this compact 23m² structure features a distinctive vault ceiling and reflects the modernization of rural Japanese agricultural architecture during the early Showa era.

Standing at the western foot of sacred Mt. Hongu in Toyokawa City, Aichi Prefecture, the Otani Family Residence Main Building is a stately wooden home completed in 1916 (Taisho 5). It features remarkably thick structural timbers cut from the family's own mountain holdings, a formal shikidai entrance organizing reception rooms and a Buddhist altar room to the north and living quarters to the south through a central corridor, and an early reinforced concrete basement. Together with its earthen storehouse, rice storehouse, and connecting corridor, the residence was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in October 2017.

Tucked into the foothills of Mount Hongū in Toyokawa City, Aichi Prefecture, the Otani Family Residence Earthen Storehouse is a small two-story dozō-zukuri building completed in 1916 to commemorate the enthronement of Emperor Taishō. Owned by the Otani family — once headmen of Ashiyamada village in the Edo period — it was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2017 alongside the main hall, rice storehouse, and connecting passageway. Its clapboard skirting, lattice-patterned namako-kabe façade, and butterfly-motif door stops embody the refined craftsmanship of early-Taishō rural architecture in Mikawa.

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