Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nagano

A late-Edo two-storey rice cellar with a set-on roof, standing on the stone embankment where the Nakasendo water channel turns the corner of a Nagano brewery estate.

A white-plastered timber fence of about 1909, nine bays long with a gentle bend, running from the main house along the east water channel of a Nagano brewery estate.

A two-storey earthen storehouse of 1912 with a set-on roof, black-plastered openings and a moulded cornice, facing a Nagano brewer's drawing room across a garden.

A long, narrow late-Meiji grain shed along the west edge of a Nagano sake brewer's estate, its eight doorways closed by twelve stacked drop-boards, a rare survival.

A late-Edo building twelve bays long beside the Nakasendo water channel in Motai, with a two-storey plastered core, a gate in its western bays and a latticed front.

A small two-storey earthen cellar of about 1912, built to match the document storehouse beside it; the rear gate between them divides a brewer's home from work.

An early-Showa L-shaped earthen cellar on the corner across the old Nakasendo from a Nagano brewery's gate, its gable turned to the road to close the street scene.

An early-Showa single-storey earthen cellar south of the old Nakasendo in Motai, its east gable facing the lane to the highway, its clapboard base matching the next.

The late-Edo gate building between the east storehouse and the shop on the old Nakasendo in Motai, its cedar ball and latticed white front the best-known view here.

A small Hachiman shrine of 1930 at the back of a Nagano brewer's estate: a one-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary in a copper-roofed shelter with a gabled hall before it.

A stone torii of 1827 before a Nagano brewer's household shrine, 2.3 metres tall, of the Inari type with collar rings, a flat top rail and unusual two-tiered bases.

A two-storey earthen fermentation cellar of 185 square metres behind the No. 2 cellar at a Nagano brewery, dated to 30 April 1917 by an ink inscription on its beam.

Standing in the Kawagishi district of Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture, the Chuo Printing Company Building (Former Katakura Group Office) is a wood-frame two-story Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1910 as the headquarters of the Katakura Group, the largest silk-reeling enterprise in Japan. Built within the grounds of the Kakigai Silk Reeling Factory — Katakura's birthplace — its dignified facade combines artificial stone pier columns with brick walls, while a Western-style first floor pairs with a Japanese hall above. Selected in the very first round of registrations in 1996, it remains an evocative monument of 'SILK OKAYA.'

Built in 1767 in the castle town of Matsushiro, Chōmyō-ji Hondō is a Pure Land Buddhist main hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2014, alongside the temple's sutra repository and main gate. Its richly carved transoms, refined bracket complexes, and elegant frog-leg struts make it a representative late-Edo Jōdo-shū main hall of northern Shinano.

Tsuumo-Imai (Kanehira) Shrine's Kanehira-sha stands in the quiet Kami-Imai district of Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, on a site traditionally identified as the residence of the late Heian samurai Imai Shirō Kanehira — foster brother and most loyal retainer of Kiso Yoshinaka, whose tragic death is immortalised in The Tale of the Heike. Built in 1833 (Tenpō 4), this compact single-bay nagare-zukuri honden of just 4.4 square metres concentrates some of the most exuberant Edo-period sculpture in central Japan, with stacked karahafu and chidori-hafu gables, dragon transoms, lion-and-elephant kibana, wave-cut door panels and Seven Sages carvings on the rear wakishōji. It was added to Japan's Registered Tangible Cultural Properties list on 31 October 2022, together with the precinct's Tsuumo-sha, Shinmei-sha and Kagura-den.

Nakazawa Tokei Honten on Nagano's Zenkoji approach is a timber building of 1924 whose washed-aggregate render imitates stone. It is still a working clock shop.

Built in 1857 in Suzaka, Nagano, this two-story earthen storehouse gives each floor its own doorway, and carries the independent placed roof typical of the district.

This three-story wing in Suzaka, Nagano, joins the shop by a covered passage. Its ground-floor reception rooms hold an alcove and writing bay, with bedrooms above.

Built in mid-Meiji Suzaka, Nagano, this two-story kimono shop has a black plastered upper wall, projecting eaves and a lattice window. Registered in 2016.

The oldest of the four registered Nakano buildings in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo storehouse kept the shop's silk stock behind thick stepped-plaster doors.

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