Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

A late Meiji farmhouse in Niigata City remodeled in early Showa with a Western parlor, a mother-of-pearl Raden-no-ma room and a painted belvedere; registered 2007.

A late Meiji gatehouse in Niigata City: five bays long with a hipped pantile roof, a stone-paved passage behind red bengara doors, white plaster and deep eaves.

A late Meiji gate and walkway in Niigata City dividing two gardens: a carved crest over the gate, and a corridor open to the courtyard, walled in plaster and bark.

An early Showa gate and wall in Niigata City: a narrow copper-roofed gate with a lattice door and a 7.9 m wall faced with cedar bark held by split bamboo.

The Isurugi Shrine Worship Hall in Nagaoka is a 1934 hip-and-gable hall on a stone base, with curved porch posts, a dragon and carved lions; registered in 2006.

The Isurugi Shrine Worship Hall in Niigata City is a late Edo hip-and-gable hall with a railed veranda and porch beam ends carved as baku; registered in 2008.

The Isurugi Shrine Main Hall in Nagaoka is a 1.4 square meter nagare-zukuri shrine of 1934 by a local carpenter, with a dragon and curved beams; registered 2006.

The Isurugi Shrine Main Hall near Toyosaka Station, Niigata City, is a gabled sanctuary of 1796 whose carved patterns reflect its age; registered in 2008.

The Ito Family Residence Front Gate and Inner Fence in Gosen, Niigata, pairs a 2.1-metre bracket-arm gate with 21 metres of battened boarding, listed in 2005.

Built in 1876 and moved on rollers in 1915, the Ito Family Residence Household Goods Storehouse and Weighing Room in Gosen, Niigata, covers 114 square metres.

The Ito Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Gosen, Niigata, dates from 1879, covers 51 square metres and shows cut-stone footings and a drip moulding.

Built in 1902, the Ito Family Residence Three-Storied Storehouse in Gosen, Niigata, measures 6 ken by 3 ken, covers 89 square metres and fronts the village road.

The Ito Family Residence Main House in Gosen, Niigata, covers 259 square metres and was listed in 2005. Sources date the building to either 1891 or 1804.

The Ito Family Residence Barn in Gosen, Niigata, covers 43 square metres, the smallest of the six listed buildings, with posts set about 60 centimetres apart.

The Inari Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, built about 1815, joins a hip-and-gable hall with a chidori-hafu to the main hall.

The Inari Shrine Main Hall in Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, is a gabled sanctuary of 1815 with tapered round posts, degumi brackets and a gable projected in two stages.

The Yahiko Shrine Stone Bridge in Niigata, a 1916 stone bridge over the Mitarashi stream, has a gently arched deck of 7 slabs and railings each cut from one stone.

The Yahiko Shrine Stone Corridor in Niigata, a 1916 walkway 5.7 metres long between offering hall and main hall, was roofed only for the transfer of the deity.

The Yahiko Shrine First Torii Gate in Niigata, a vermilion four-legged ryobu torii of 1916 at the end of the approach, is recorded by the Agency as 8.5 metres high.

The Yahiko Shrine Ema Hall in Niigata, built in 1916, has triangular gables front and back and shows prize plaques from contests once held at a sports ground nearby.

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