Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A single-storey timber tea house on a hill in Gamagori, Aichi, with a small tea room and an eight-mat guest room, built in the sukiya manner. Registered in 2022.
A 1934 building on a hill above Mikawa Bay in Gamagori, Aichi. A hip-and-gable copper roof sits on a concrete frame, with wings of three and two storeys.
A detached building of 1916 on a hill in Gamagori, Aichi. A room stepping out to the southeast carries snow-viewing screens over Mikawa Bay. Registered in 2022.
A single-storey timber building of 1936 in Gamagori, Aichi. Hexagonal, roofed in glazed blue tiles under a sacred jewel, it was a sales pavilion. Registered in 2022.
A martial arts hall of 1917 at Meiji Mura in Inuyama, Aichi, moved there from Kanazawa in 1970. A Western roof truss clears its floor of every column.
A two-storey timber building of 1950 in Nagoya, Aichi. Its rooms are set apart by corridors and narrow interstitial spaces rather than placed side by side.
A timber auditorium of 1922 in Matsuyama, Ehime, built for a school run by the ministry. Its front carries a large porte-cochere of eight Tuscan columns.
A single-storey timber hall of 1932 in Joso, Ibaraki, 541 square metres. Built as a school gymnasium and auditorium, it now serves as a martial arts hall.
A single-storey timber station of 1900 in Okayama, 84 square metres. Of its seven bays, two and a half at the south end serve as the waiting room today.
A shrine hall of 1919 in Maniwa, Okayama, just 12 square metres. Its walls are laid in two layers, with round posts outside and square ones set within.
A single-storey timber house at Okinawa World in Nanjo, 127 square metres. Four rooms range along the front and three more lie behind them to the west.
A bridge of 1939 over the Iwai River in Ichinoseki, Iwate, 61 metres long. The Agency records it as a concrete bridge with bamboo used as reinforcement.
A shop and dwelling in Kamioka, Hida, Gifu, 270 square metres. Its townhouse front carries a Western reception room to the right, Western inside and out.
An earth-walled storehouse of 1892 in Gero, Gifu, just 21 square metres. A single line of black plaster crosses its white wall high up, sharpening it.
A single-storey timber house at the Okute post station in Mizunami, Gifu. A quatrefoil window sits in the low wall above its front eaves, with a crest beside it.
A former lodging house at the Ota post station on the Nakasendo in Minokamo, Gifu. Plastered to the eaves, it still leaves its head rails and brackets in view.
A large Taisho-period storehouse in Tome, Miyagi, fifteen bays long. Its roof frame imitates a Western truss, bolted and strapped together with iron straps.
An earth-walled storehouse of the Meiji period in Miyazu, Kyoto, just 17 square metres. Its rafters are set in a fan, as at three other stores on the plot.
A Meiji townhouse on Shinmachi-dori in Kyoto, 180 square metres. Its ground-floor front divides in three: a doorway, a display board and a lattice bay.
A shop of 1883 on Oike-dori in Kyoto, 80 square metres. Its plan wraps in an L around a storehouse that is itself registered quite separately from it.
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