Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Chiba

Sunosaki Lighthouse, first lit in 1919 on Chiba's Bōsō Peninsula, is an early concrete tower. A line linking it to Tsurugizaki marks the legal edge of Tokyo Bay.

Built in 1927 as a Tokyo broker's guest annexe, Seiyokan Club in Ichikawa carries flared hakamagoshi gables on three sides. Registered in 1999, now a concert hall.

Rebuilt in 1930 after earthquake damage, Senchakuji's main hall in Kisarazu casts brackets and eaves in concrete while holding the form of a timber Buddha hall.

An early Meiji merchant storehouse in Omigawa, raised against floods behind 60cm plaster walls. Registered 1999, it opens free as a shellfish-purple dye museum.

The well-house at the Someya residence dates to 1922. Under its open frame is a white-tiled brick well, and a plate reads Hoshinoi, the sake the family once brewed.

The Inari shrine at the Someya residence is early Meiji. On high ground, a small nagare-zukuri shrine sits within a gabled shelter for the household deity.

Built in 1847, the main house of the Someya residence in Kashiwa ranks among western Chiba's largest farmhouses, its L-shaped earthen wing recalling a headman's life.

The Nagayamon gate faces south along the front of the Someya estate, a gateway flanked by rooms east and west. It is held to be the oldest of the eight buildings.

The fertilizer shed at the Someya residence is a plain early-Meiji building. Its earthen floor is split in two for making and storing fertilizer for the fields.

The bathhouse at the Someya residence dates to about 1923. A vent tops the ridge, and inside are bath, changing room and firebox. A bay window shows 1920s comfort.

The document storehouse of 1867 is the second-oldest building at the Someya residence. Its thick plastered walls sheltered the archive that now dates the estate.

The front storehouse at the Someya residence dates to 1893 and began as a rice granary. Its plastered walls and namako base recall a farming family that also traded.

Registered in 2011, the late-Edo shoin at Daiganji in Chiba City arranges nine tatami rooms around shared verandas, preserving the plan of a Pure Land seminary.

Built in the mid-Edo period and registered in 2011, Daiganji Main Hall in Chiba City is one of very few surviving buildings from the Kanto Pure Land seminaries.

The Takeda Family Residence in Ichihara, Chiba, a former clinic formed by joining two buildings in 1956, sets Japanese roofs over Western walls, a local landmark.

The student hall of Chiba Reimei Gakuen in Yachimata, Chiba, a timber assembly hall and dojo of 1924, has a dormered half-hipped roof on turnbuckle trusses.

Teradaen Old Store in Nagareyama, Chiba, a storehouse-style shop of 1889 near the Edo River, keeps its black-plastered walls and a broad shop floor at the front.

The Tobe Goemon Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Noda, Chiba, is a 1949 street-side store whose front half held rice and miso and rear half raised silkworms.

The Tobe Goemon Family Residence Main House in Noda, Chiba, is a hipped-roof wharf agent's home of around 1893 with a 1929 Western wing, moved whole in 1949.

The Tobe Goemon Family Residence Warehouse in Noda, Chiba, is a 1949 wharf store on the Edo River embankment, with an open lean-to and a boatmen's room upstairs.

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