Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ishikawa

The Kitaōji Rosanjin Former Residence in Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property dating from the early Meiji era. In 1915, the young Rosanjin stayed here to carve signboards and first encountered ceramics. Now open as 'Iroha Sōan,' visitors can explore his workroom, study, hearth room, traditional garden, and storehouse gallery.

The Kitaoji Rosanjin Residence Storehouse is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Built in the Meiji era, this earthen storehouse is where the celebrated multi-disciplinary artist Kitaoji Rosanjin stayed in 1915 and discovered his artistic calling. Now open to the public as Iroha Sōan, visitors can explore the rooms where Rosanjin lived and view his ceramic works.

Built by Shimizu-gumi in 1929 for the Takaoka Bank, this curved four-storey concrete landmark by the Asano River now houses the Kanazawa Bungeikan literary centre.

A nationally registered tangible cultural property in Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, this rare kiln shed preserves traditional nishiki kilns at the birthplace of Living National Treasure Tokuda Yasokichi III. Explore masterpieces spanning three generations of Kutani ware artistry in an intimate early Shōwa-era townhouse setting.

Built around 1933 in Komatsu, Ishikawa, this machiya was home and workshop to three generations of Tokuda Kutani enamellers. Registered in 2019, now a museum.

Completed in 1924, the Saigawa Ohashi Bridge is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property spanning the Saigawa River in Kanazawa. Designed by pioneering bridge engineer Sekiba Shigeki and partially built with British steel, this Warren truss bridge features a striking blue gradient paint inspired by Kaga Yuzen dyeing and a gold-leaf nameplate, serving as a beloved symbol connecting Katamachi and Nishi Chaya districts.

Built as a Kanazawa restaurant in 1937, this house was moved intact after the war and made a home, keeping its swan transoms and two shoin alcoves. Registered 2004.

A Meiji-period house in Kaga City, Ishikawa, registered in 1999. Its 1941 entrance wing joins an older reception wing, both in slender timber under raw lacquer.

A late-Edo earthen storehouse in Kaga City, Ishikawa, moved in 1997 from the burial temple of the Daishoji lords, registered in 1999 as difficult to reproduce.

This 1921 townhouse east of the Asano River doubles the brackets under its deep eave and turns its upstairs sitting room toward Mount Utatsu. Registered in 2004.

Built around 1899 in Kanazawa, this farmhouse stacks four tiers of beam across its gable end and finishes its rooms in refined sukiya style. Registered in 2002.

Shokoji's north storehouse in Hakusan, built in 1914, is the earliest of the temple's Taisho buildings, a small earthen dozo with black-plaster base and stone facing.

Shokoji's guest hall in Hakusan, built in 1918, is the temple's most ornate building, with a cusped entrance gable, gold-papered walls and mother-of-pearl transoms.

Shokoji's kuri in Hakusan, a two-storey priests' quarters of 1918, shows a decorated west gable of struts and boat brackets over weatherboarding, cited as a modern kuri.

Shokoji's zashiki wing in Hakusan, a two-storey timber building of 1918, holds formal rooms with alcoves over two floors and served as living and reception space.

Shokoji's main gate in Hakusan, a gabled four-legged gate of 1956, shows dense bracketing and a dragon carved across the opening, a work of high decorative quality.

Shokoji's bell tower in Hakusan keeps a mid-Edo frame, the oldest at the temple, an open single-bay tower on a high Tomuro-stone plinth, relocated in 1976 and registered.

Shokoji's Sofu-an in Hakusan, a thatched tea room built in 1935, is named after Chiyo-ni's brush name and marked by a cross-shaped roof; a registered cultural property.

Shokoji's tea house in Hakusan, built in 1918, gathers named rooms such as Ryoryo-an under one roof, a refined Taisho tea complex with a compact log-and-bamboo tea room.

Shokoji's Chiyo-ni Hall in Hakusan, built in 1935 for the poet's 150th memorial, is a tiny thatched shrine holding Yoshida Saburo's carved image of Kaga no Chiyo.