Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Miyagi

Built in 1910 among the timber halls of Sendai's Second Higher School, this three-storey brick stack kept books safe from fire. Its English-bond walls still stand.

This 1934 stable in Kurihara, Miyagi, is eleven metres long, with an earth floor, doorways widened for horses and deep segai-zukuri eaves beneath a thatched roof.

Built between 1830 and 1868 in Kurihara, Miyagi, this thatched farmhouse keeps a regular four-room plan, with an alcove and sao-buchi ceiling in its formal room.

The former Tsukidate Elementary School in Kesennuma, Miyagi, a timber school of 1922, has a central porch under a large gable and Stick-style walls, a rare survivor.

Completed in 1930, this L-shaped classroom building gathers its arch, stone cladding, and rooftop tower at the center of a rare symmetrical facade.

This 1929 laboratory pairs brick tile and arched windows with a plainer upper floor, its central entrance crowned by stained glass, in Sendai's Katahira Campus.

Built in 1926, this granite-clad gate with pen-nib capitals spans 6.3 meters; its doors were lost to wartime requisition, yet the pillars still stand.

Built in 1926 by Tsuyoshi Ogura, this Romanesque former library reading room now houses the Tohoku University Archives, open free on weekdays in Sendai.

Completed in 1927, this concrete building with herringbone brick tilework survived the 1945 air raids as the last Faculty of Law and Letters building.

Built in 1932 and extended in 1935, this scratch-tile building with vertical piers and a stone entrance now serves as Tohoku University's headquarters.

This V-shaped 1924 building, among Sendai's first concrete works, has a cylindrical corner and Secession entrance; Gallery Historia opens free twice weekly.

The Meiji residence of a sake brewery founded in 1790, this 175 m² timber building anchors the Kamuro merchant complex by Furukawa's poetic Odae bridge in Miyagi.

A Meiji-era two-story dozō on the old Ōshū Kaidō in Furukawa, counter house of the Hashihei sake brewery, with white plaster walls and a black cornice band.

A Meiji-era timber shopfront in Furukawa, once the public face of the Hashihei sake brewery (founded 1790). Registered in 2021, it now anchors the Kamuro complex.

The former Hirano Honten in Kesennuma, Miyagi, a shop and house of about 1921 where two roads meet, has a Western-style front with arched windows and a parapet.

The former Marumori Post Office in Miyagi, a two-storey building of 1935 faced in scratch tile and artificial stone, has tall windows and dentils on its parapet.

A 1930 zashiki storehouse behind the Kakutaya shop, Toyoma, Tome City, built by a Yamada branch family, with an upstairs room of lacquered zelkova. Registered 2021.

An early Showa zelkova gate on Toyoma's main street in Tome City, with a one-board transom, carved brackets and a pendant pierced with cranes. Registered 2021.

A late Meiji storehouse at the back of a Toyoma brewery in Tome City, 48 m², with all-zelkova posts on a 6-shaku module and double-bracketed eaves. Registered 2021.

An early Showa shop storehouse on Toyoma's main street, Tome City: hipped roof, stone-clad base, barred glass doors and an upstairs alcove room. Registered in 2021.

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