Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Iwate

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.

House of 1941 in Kuji, Iwate, designed by the Vories office for the missionary Thomasine Allen, with a fireplace guest room, built-in kitchen fittings and a balcony.

Reinforced-concrete public hall of 1927 in Morioka with a six-stage tower and scratch-tile walls, built with an assembly chamber and main hall; still in use.

Town house of 1888 in Tono, Iwate, with rooms either side of a central passage, an open-roofed living room and upstairs lattice. A typical Tono house, now an inn.

Former main hall of a horse-headed Kannon shrine in Shizukuishi, Iwate, from the Edo period and moved in 1914; full of votive pictures, it is called the Emado.

Main hall of 1914 at a horse-headed Kannon shrine in Shizukuishi, Iwate, with a balustraded veranda, two-stepped brackets and deep carving around the porch.

The Former Azumaya Sake Brewery Sake Storehouse in Miyako is a late-Edo earthen brewhouse with a post-free hall, registered in 2019 and now used for film screenings.

The Former Azumaya Sake Brewery Pawn Storehouse in Miyako is a late-Edo plastered storehouse holding a pawn store and a strongroom side by side, registered in 2019.

The Former Azumaya Sake Brewery Store and Main House in Miyako is a late Meiji townhouse whose street front of lattice and one boarded bay was registered in 2019.

An early Meiji board-walled storehouse beside the front gate in Mizusawa, 3 bays by 2, whose gabled roof has its ridge pushed to the west, giving unequal slopes.

A late Taisho gate 2.1 m wide opening onto Hidaka-koji in Mizusawa, with a hipped roof, eaves sealed in white lime plaster and a wicket door beside its board doors.

An early Meiji house in Mizusawa pairing a hipped entrance wing with a hip-and-gable reception wing, with a sukiya-style upstairs room and paintings by Sato Koun.

A 2-storey late Meiji storehouse in Mizusawa with a floating roof, namako tile-and-plaster walls, and a family crest and kote-e plaster relief on its north gable.

A small late Taisho bracket-armed gate, 1.1 m wide, on the east edge of the Abe garden in Mizusawa, with moulded brackets and an openwork transom over its crossbeam.

A late Meiji town house on Setamai's old highway in Sumita, Iwate: rooms strung along an earth-floored passage, railed upstairs guest rooms, registered in 2017.

A 1909 earthen storehouse behind the annex in Setamai, Sumita, Iwate: a gabled okiyane roof on a king post truss, and shuttered windows that switch walls by floor.

The smallest Kanno building: a 1900 storehouse on the south side of the Setamai plot in Iwate, fully plastered with a hachimaki band and a half loft over one end.

An 1899 storehouse at the east end of the Kanno plot in Setamai, Iwate, the largest, joining two kura under one okiyane with Japanese framing and a king post truss.

A 1909 former book and ledger storehouse facing the courtyard of the Kanno house in Setamai, Iwate, set on a stone base with black plaster around its upper window.

A 1910 hip-and-gable wing east of the Kanno main house in Setamai, Iwate, built for silkworms: a low joist-ceiled ground floor under matching upstairs rooms.

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