Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Iwate

At Tono Furusato Village, the Former Kikuchi Kiemon Residence is a straight-plan sugoya, not an L-shaped magariya, its late-Edo thatched roof echoing Nanbu farm life.

At Tono Furusato Village, the Former Kikuchi Residence (Oono-don) is an L-shaped Nanbu magariya where a family lived with its horses, a model early-Meiji farmhouse.

The Former Kikuchi Western-Style Building (1926) in Hanamaki pairs a Western exterior with Japanese rooms. Saved from demolition, it stands in Miyazawa Kenji's home town.

At Tono Furusato Village, the Former Kikuchi Sai Residence is an Edo-period magariya with chestnut posts and exposed-post plaster walls, a rare open lesson in carpentry.

A Meiji-period magariya of 267 sq m, moved from Ohasama to Tono Furusato Village in 1991. Its rooms were rearranged in the local Tono sequence at that time.

A late Edo magariya of 380 sq m at Tono Furusato Village, the largest farmhouse there. Its three linked formal rooms mark the rank of a village headman.

Built in 1897 to a Ministry of Finance standard design, this Ichinoseki tobacco office keeps its wavy gable board and now opens free of charge as a local museum.

Yanagita Kunio lodged here while gathering the legends of Tono Monogatari. Registered in 2023, the inn joins a Tono townhouse to a later, grander guest wing.

On the Takano family grounds in Mizusawa, Iwate, this late-Meiji plank storehouse shows dropped-in board walls and a lobed openwork panel, registered in 2024.

Built in 1931 to mark a father's seventieth birthday, this Takano parlor in Mizusawa has a carved hawk-and-pine transom and a garden veranda, linked to Choei's residence.

Built around 1941 on the Takano grounds in Mizusawa, this guest wing is prized for delicate kumiko glass screens and a coved plaster ceiling, linked to the Kokian.

Named for the pen name of scholar Takano Choei, this tiny 1932 earthen-walled library in Mizusawa has a copper door and iron grilles to guard his legacy.

A plank-walled storehouse of about 1929 in Kanegasaki, Iwate, its boards dropped into grooved posts without nails. Moved by hikiya in 1995 and registered in 2018.

Built in 1930 in Kanegasaki, Iwate, this two-story wooden house pairs a ten-mat zashiki and veranda with mortar walling and a round window. Registered 2018.

The former Tohoku crushed stone factory of 1924 in Ichinoseki, Iwate, crushed limestone for farm lime and is linked with the poet and writer Miyazawa Kenji.

The former treasure hall of 1925 in central Tono, Iwate, now a museum store, was built in concrete against fire and earthquakes, the first in the Tono area.

The 1908 villa of the Nanbu family, former lords of Morioka, has a front that is Japanese on one side and Western on the other, and is now a community centre annex.

This timber Catholic church of 1912, now on a school campus in Morioka, Iwate, has a Romanesque nave of columns, arches and vaults and a belfry over its front.

Residence No. 1 of the army remount depot at Rokuhara in Kanegasaki, Iwate, a field officers' house of about 1911, has a weatherboarded front and two entrances.

Residence No. 3 of the army remount depot at Rokuhara in Kanegasaki, Iwate, built in 1911, shares the brick base, weatherboarding and sash windows of its neighbours.

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