Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Yamagata
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Beside the main gate of the former Uesugi count's residence stands the guardhouse, built in the 1920s and registered in 1997. In 2019 it became the Nagomitei cafe.
A rear wing of the former Uesugi residence in Yonezawa holding the children's and maids' rooms, built in fine cedar to the same standard as the formal rooms.
A single-storey service wing of the former Uesugi residence in Yonezawa, with servants' rooms, a maids' room and a kitchen, plainly but finely built in cedar.
A registered storehouse behind the former Uesugi count's residence in Yonezawa. Built in 1925 as a rice store, this plastered dozo joins a rebuilt daimyo estate.
The smallest of the buildings at the former Uesugi count's residence in Yonezawa, this 24-square-meter registered cultural property shelters a single family altar.
The former Uesugi residence in Yonezawa is fronted by a single-bay yakuimon gate with a curved copper roof, rebuilt after a 1919 fire and now a registered property.
Rebuilt in 1935 after a fire, this two-story wooden schoolhouse in Yonezawa still holds classes, its half-timber walls facing the approach to Uesugi Shrine.
On Mount Chokai stands Ryuzuji's plain 1933 founder's hall, registered in 2015, its clapboard shell hiding a lacquered interior and trowel-worked plaster reliefs.
Built around 1875 in earthen storehouse construction, the Kannon-do at Ryuto-ji sits below Mount Chokai, its front beam carved with a dragon for the temple's name.
Built in 1844 below Mt. Chokai, this registered hall once headed Warabioka's mountain ascetics, joining a worship hall and priests' quarters under one copper roof.
In Yamagata's Kaminoyama Onsen, the 1939 Ryokan Yonemoto blends Doric pilasters, round upper windows, and a tiled gabled entrance into an eclectic registered facade.
A 1952 cobblestone dam on Yamagata's Tachiyazawa River, trapping sediment off Mount Gassan. Its stonework and curved spillway became a cultural property in 2017.
Built in 1909 in Iide, Yamagata, the Watanabe Rokurobei nagayamon is a two-storey plastered gatehouse with a brick base and a coffered ceiling over its passage.
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