Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The 1937 front gate of the Goto family compound in Gifu City: a light single-bay yakuimon with flanking walls and a lintel grooved for lost sliding doors.

The Komachi Sake Brewery Service Gate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, built in 1897, is the oldest of five registered buildings, its board doors bound in splayed iron straps.

The Komachi Sake Brewery Shop and Main House in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1954 shop and home with black plaster walls, deep eaves and a cedar sugidama ball out front.

The Komachi Sake Brewery Storehouse in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1925 storehouse on a round-stone base, clad in black boards with bracketed canopies on the south.

The Komachi Sake Brewery Detached Wing in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1912 reception wing of two 8-mat rooms with a tokonoma and shelves, set behind a walled garden.

The Komachi Sake Brewery Gate and Wall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 21-metre U-shaped wall on round stones in a tortoiseshell pattern, black outside and red within.

The main house of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, from about the early Meiji era, has carved beams under its lattice windows and a sukiya-style room.

The west storehouse of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, held rice and goods; set on a high cobble base against floods, its openings bear carved lintels.

The east storehouse of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, kept swords and porcelain; it stands on a cobble base about 2 metres high with fine plaster walls.

The annex of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, used as retirement rooms, sets a simple sukiya-style tatami room on a high cobble base by its storehouses.

A three-span suspension bridge of 1926 over the Hida River in Shirakawa, Gifu, registered in 2013, with steel towers and granite end posts.

At Shinryuji Temple in Gifu, a Taisho-era corridor joins a karahafu entrance and a small tea room with a round window and a sliding-slat window for sensing guests.

Rebuilt in 1948 after a 1921 typhoon felled the old gate, Shinryuji Temple Main Gate in Gifu is a yakuimon with a finely carved dragon strut and a lattice ceiling.

Shinryuji Temple Bell Tower in Gifu was built in 1898 by a pupil of the Main Hall carpenter: an open one-bay frame of inward-leaning posts on a random-stone base.

Built around 1881 by Kasahara Jisuke, Shinryuji Temple Main Hall in Gifu has a classic Shin plan, a long arched beam that spans a column-free hall, and gilded ranma.

Main house of the Sumiyoshi Ryokan in Takayama, built in 1923 as a pawnbroker's shop and home, with a front lattice in Takayama's typical rectangle-over-square grid.

Late Taisho miso storehouse beside the Sumiyoshi Ryokan in Takayama, now its kitchen, fronted by a latticed lean-to that joins the main house on the street.

Pledge storehouse of 1923 beside the Sumiyoshi Ryokan in Takayama, secured with earthen doors and iron grilles, its inner doors detailed in black plaster.

Early Showa guest wing at the Senzairo inn in Yoro, built out on stilts for the view, with glazed shoji and a ceiling painting on silk attributed to Takeuchi Seiho.

Main building of 1880 at the Senzairo inn in Yoro Park with a carriage porch, a 28-mat upstairs hall and a bathroom of marble patterned to evoke the Yoro Falls.

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