Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ishikawa

The main house of the Hatta family in northern Kanazawa, a tall farmhouse of 1905 built of fine timber, shows a great azumadachi gable to the village lane.

The west storehouse of the Hatta family house in northern Kanazawa, built in 1874, has an asymmetrical roof swept low to the north and eaves carried on braces.

The south storehouse of the Hatta house in northern Kanazawa, built in 1890, is a small store with a separate tiled roof that frames the back of the property.

The Harukiya Clothing Store, located on the historic Ipponsugi-dori in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a two-story wooden Western-style building constructed in 1921 as the Western clothing department of a traditional kimono merchant. Featuring a mortar-plastered façade with semi-circular arched windows and classical cornices, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2014. This elegant Taisho-era commercial building reflects the modernization of the port town of Nanao on the Noto Peninsula.

The Harunari sake brewery house in Nanao, Ishikawa, a tall timber townhouse of 1934 near the start of the Noto road, stands out among its neighbours for its size.

A 1949 row-house gate at a Komatsu sake brewery, with a 4.7 m gateway, heavy double doors, a wicket, and a front of stone, plaster, tall boards and a lattice window.

A small 1948 yakuimon gate at a Komatsu sake brewery, 1.7 m wide, flanked by cut-stone walls topped with earth on one side and boards on the other, 8.6 m in all.

A 1952 four-and-a-half-mat tea room at a Komatsu sake brewery, lit by shoji and a tall guest door under a mixed ajiro ceiling; closed for earthquake repairs.

A tiny 1949 wooden inspection room between two storehouses at a Komatsu sake brewery, with white plaster walls and a stained-glass bay window on its south side.

A small 1949 stone koji room at a Komatsu sake brewery, its local tuff walls laid to the eaves and topped by a light roof whose timber frame shows in the gables.

Built in 1949 between two stone stores in Komatsu, this sake workshop joins a yeast-starter room and boiler area under layered roofs beside a brick chimney.

Rebuilt in 1936 after a fire, this shop and home at a Komatsu sake brewery keeps an earthen-floored front, a family oi room and 4 grid rooms with carved transoms.

A 1948 stone-faced tool storehouse at a Komatsu sake brewery, with Western arches over its openings and a dragon and tiger carved between its stacked windows.

A 1949 timber-framed sake storehouse in Komatsu clad in local Kanagaso stone, 19 m long, with a simplified eave band and a keystoned arch over its doorway.

Built in 1868 and moved in 1902, this earthen storehouse in Komatsu outlasted a 1936 fire and pairs tall clapboard walls with stone window frames and base.

A 1946 stone sake storehouse in Komatsu, 15 m long, built of local Kanagaso tuff with an Edo-giri dressed base and a plastered, truss-roofed interior.

A 1948 guest room at a Komatsu sake brewery with a deep garden eave, a large alcove, a bell-arched writing bay and a coved coffered ceiling; closed for repairs.

The Hikoso Machiya in Kanazawa, a two-storey house of about 1931 with a traditional azumadachi gable, is now used by the Kanazawa Machiya Research Association.

The Hiraki Family Main House in Kanazawa, a late Edo samurai house in the old foot soldiers' quarter, stands between street, garden and an irrigation channel.

The Hirakiya Flag Shop in Kanazawa is a townhouse of the late Edo period (1830 to 1867) by the Sai River, keeping the layout of an old castle-town shop.