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The tea house of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, a guest house of 1940, has a large-hearth room whose rough beams and bamboo ceiling give it the look of a farmhouse.
The detached wing of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, a reception wing of about 1935, uses logs of many woods and boat-bottom and woven ceilings in the sukiya style.
The annex of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, built in 1940, staggers its rooms toward the sea and has a Zangetsu-style alcove, sukiya touches and rustic hewn beams.
The main building of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, built in 1933 as a banker's villa above Sagami Bay, has slender sukiya timbers and large windows facing the sea.
The storage shed of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, built in 1933, has a store half sunk into the slope and a matted room above, recalling the upkeep of the villa.
Registered in August 2024, five months after the house behind it, this concrete gate and 34-metre glazed-tile wall are the part of the property the street sees.
Completed in 1935 at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this hall honours the founder behind folding doors and cusped windows, its brackets set in a continuous Zen row.
Rebuilt in 1953 on the approach path at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this two-storey gate carries bracketing that changes between its lower and upper levels.
Built in 1933 below a bluff at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this meditation hall sets matted platforms along both walls of a single room with a tiled floor.
A one-room Western-style building of about 1935 at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City, just 18 square metres, with red pantiles, washed mortar render and plaster reliefs.
A single-storey timber building of 1933 at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City, the first raised in the rebuilding campaign, with carved transoms and a large hipped roof.
The largest of the seven registered buildings at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City, with three banquet rooms below and a hall of 108 mats above framed in rosewood.
The innkeeper's own house of about 1935 at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City, three levels into the slope, mixing Japanese and Western rooms, with fine lattice fittings.
A two-storey timber wing joining Min'untei to the banquet hall at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City. Its record names Aoki Seihei, the carpenter who ran the work.
A two-storey timber guest wing of 1933 to 1935 at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City, its plan bent so rooms face the stream, with cypress posts and rare alcove timbers.
A two-storey timber building at the far end of the Ochiairo inn grounds in Izu City, worked in the sukiya manner, with pierced transoms drawn from The Tale of Genji.
A 1939 timber villa in Atami, Shizuoka, registered in 2019, with Japanese rooms on both floors facing Sagami Bay, finished in slender, elegant sukiya style.