Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Miyagi

The front gate at the SE corner of the Matsuya property in Furukawa, Ōsaki. A large early-Meiji zelkova munamon with a chrysanthemum-marked gable pendant.

A long earthen-walled storehouse on the Matsuya property in Furukawa, Ōsaki. Built in early Meiji for sugar, its 12-meter length reflects the family's wealth.

The main house of the wealthy Matsuya merchants in Furukawa, Ōsaki. Built in early Meiji, it lodged imperial household members during Emperor Meiji's tours.

A single-story wooden bean storehouse on the Matsuya property in Furukawa, Ōsaki. White plaster set between close-set pillars gives it a bold vertical stripe.

A two-story earthen-walled storehouse on the Matsuya property in Furukawa, Ōsaki. Late Edo in date, it is the site's oldest building, noted for its plasterwork.

A tiny household shrine on the Matsuya property in Furukawa, Ōsaki, within a protective shell. At 0.2 m² the smallest building, yet a full nagare-style shrine.

Built in 1923 as Isatomae Elementary School and later a night-school branch, this timber building survived the 2011 tsunami and was registered in 2017.

A tiny lignite store of about 1950 at Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory, open on its yard side with a loading door facing the street. Registered 2019 with the boiler.

A building of about 1934 at Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory: a trussed store of exposed Akiu stone for soybeans, with a timber weighing shed behind. Registered 2019.

An early Showa staff break room at Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory: one mortar-floored room under a pantiled gable, glazed on both sides. Registered in 2019.

An early Showa garage for delivery vans at Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory: a timber shed whose full-width front closes with a steel shutter. Registered in 2019.

A single-storey building of about 1934 at Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory, where packed natto ferments in small rooms along a trolley track. Registered in 2019.

The core building of Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory, about 1934: a two-storey office joined to a trussed workroom where natto is still made. Registered 2019.

A timber boiler house of about 1950 at Sendai's Miyagino Natto Factory, holding a brick lignite-fired boiler and chimney that heated the soybeans. Registered 2019.

Moritami Sake Brewery Residence in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is a Taishō-era family home with a Western-style north room: sash windows, a bay window and a ceiling rose.

Moritami Sake Brewery Chimney in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is an early Shōwa brick stack 16 metres tall on a 1.5-metre base, laid in English bond with a band of dark brick.

Moritami Sake Brewery Inner Room in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is a late Meiji reception wing of two ten-mat rooms with sukiya-style rafters and an old porcelain toilet.

Moritami Sake Brewery Kamaya in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is a gabled rice-steaming house of about 1883 whose brick firebox fed a flue to the chimney, still at work today.

Moritami Sake Brewery North Storehouse in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is a late Meiji two-storey storehouse with plastered walls and a base faced with local Shiogama tuff.

The Brewing Storehouse of Moritami Sake Brewery in Iwadeyama, Miyagi, is a clay-walled sake hall of about 1883, 36 metres long, with a king post truss.