Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Yamagata

Yoshitei Honya in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a two-storey silk merchant's house of about 1919. Registered in 2003, its Akita cedar rooms now serve a beef restaurant.

Yoshitei Minami-dozō in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a late Edo storehouse of 1830 to 1867. It survived the great fire of 1919, held raw silk, and was registered in 2003.

Yoshitei Mon in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a zelkova gate of 1940 on the old Aizu road. Registered in 2003, this single-bay yakuimon spans about 2.6 metres in width.

The 1925 heart of the former Uesugi counts' residence in Yonezawa, rebuilt in pure Japanese style by Nakajo Seiichiro, its cypress hall open beside Uesugi Shrine.

On the north side of the Yonezawa City Uesugi Memorial Hall stands a plaster-walled dozo storehouse built to resist fire, completed in 1924 and registered in 1997.

The only two-storey building of the former Uesugi residence in Yonezawa, a 1925 guest wing by Nakajo Seiichiro whose banded corridor transoms shape its refined exterior.

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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