Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ehime

The everyday gate of a headman's compound on Ōshima, Niihama: a 3.8-metre timber gate with a wicket door and an 18-metre plastered earthen wall, registered in 2024.

A mid-Edo village headman's house on Ōshima, Niihama, registered in 2024: tsushi-nikai upper floor, hongawara tiled irimoya roof, shikidai porch, 192 square metres.

The chert retaining wall carrying the top terrace at Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, built by named masons in 1930, with a 1944 concrete parapet shaped like a balustrade.

Forty-three granite steps of 1916 climbing to the Nio gate at Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, most treads cut from a single stone, flanked by rough field-stone walls.

The Taisho-era reception hall at Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, with a cusped-gable entrance platform, a forty-eight-mat room facing the garden and an attached tea room.

A three-bay hall of 1909 on the middle terrace at Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, carved over seven years by a father and son from Ikata with dragons, hares and cranes.

A one-bay bell tower of the late Edo period at Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, open on four sides, with a hipped-and-gabled roof whose ornaments outsize the building.

An 1880 hall of three bays square beside the main hall at Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, its pyramidal roof capped in bronze and its canopy rafters cut to a curve.

The smallest registered structure at Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, a 5.5-square-metre pavilion of 1937 sheltering a granite basin cut with the words wash the heart.

Standing at the entrance of Meiseki-ji, the 43rd temple of the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage in Ehime Prefecture, the Niomon is a striking three-by-two-bay irimoya-style two-story gate. Distinctive red tiles, dragon-adorned ridge tiles, and rare Fujin and Raijin guardian statues make it a fascinating example of regional temple architecture. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2007, it preserves the artistic and spiritual heritage of southwestern Shikoku.

The Main Hall of Meiseki-ji Temple in Seiyo City, Ehime Prefecture, serves as the principal building of the 43rd sacred site on the Shikoku Pilgrimage and was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2007. Constructed between 1882 and 1890 by master carpenters of the Ikata school, this five-bay-square hall features a striking red Sekishu-tile roof and an elaborate karahafu front porch adorned with intricate carvings of dragons, phoenixes, and mythical beasts. Discover a thousand-year-old temple where the heritage of Genko-zan Enshu-in Meiseki-ji meets the finest craftsmanship of Meiji-era religious architecture.

The Mori Family Residence Onari Gate and Wall in Saijo, Ehime, is a bracket-post gate of about 1864 with a 25-metre wall along the highway. Registered in 2023.

Built in 1841 in Saijo, Ehime, the Mori Family Residence Main House joins two gabled blocks with a valley gutter and holds a raised parlor for the domain lord.

The Mori Family Residence Main House in Mitsu, Matsuyama, is a 1929 merchant house clad in copper sheet above granite. Registered in 2010, it is a private home.

A late Edo-period parlor with an 11-metre wall in Saijo, Ehime, the Mori Family Residence Garden Parlor and Wall pairs eight- and twelve-mat rooms facing a garden.

Built between 1912 and 1918 in Saijo, Ehime, the Mori Family Residence Detached Wing was retirement quarters, with a tea room and no formal lintel timbers.

A bathing block of about 1841 in Saijo, Ehime, the Mori Family Residence Bathhouse keeps its wooden tub and privy and links to the main house by a passage.

The Yatsuzuka Family Residence Storehouse, a Meiji kura moved to Matsuyama in 1936, has black plaster walls and a four-layer door. Registered 2015; closed.

The Yatsuzuka Family Residence Main House, built in 1936 in Matsuyama, joins a sukiya plan, a ten-mat Western room and a tea room. Registered 2015; closed.

The Yatsuzuka Family Residence Waiting Arbor, a 1936 tea garden bench of 8.6 square meters, faces the tea room across the garden. Registered 2015; closed.

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