Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The main hall of Abe Seimei Shrine in Osaka, built in 1924 to designs by Yoshida Tanejiro, is a small nagare-style hall dressed in old-style carved details.

The left wing of the Arai Family Residence, built in 1932: a 15-mat zashiki with a raised jodan, a 10-mat antechamber, tall openings and carved ranma transoms.

A large earthen storehouse of 1932 at the Arai Family Residence, linked to the main house by a corridor, with a gabled hongawara roof and namako-kabe tile cladding.

The central wing of the Arai Family Residence, built in 1932 with a temple-style hongawara roof and a 22.5-mat zashiki ringed by a tatami corridor facing the garden.

The living wing of the Arai Family Residence, built in 1932, the largest of its six registered structures, planned around a courtyard and a 21-mat guest kitchen.

The 1932 earthen wall on the west side of the Arai Family Residence: cut-stone base, white lime plaster and tiled coping, running 130 meters either side of the gate.

The 1932 front gate of the Arai Family Residence, a large yakuimon set back from a bending lane, with wing walls, heavy timbers and a hongawara tile roof.

The Arai Building in Kitahama, Osaka, a former bank of 1922 by Kawai Kozo with a Doric front, now houses a confectioner's shop in its old double-height banking hall.

Built in 1853, the Aritoshi Shrine Back Gate in Izumisano matches the front gate in size and colour, differing only in the ornament left off its post heads.

Built in 1861, the Aritoshi Shrine Votive Tablet Hall in Izumisano still displays painted tablets offered by local schools under its tall carved elevation.

Dated 1852 by its ridge tablet, the vermilion Aritoshi Shrine Front Gate is an uncommon case of a four-legged gate fronting a Shinto shrine in Izumisano.

Late Edo in date, the Aritoshi Shrine North Purification Pavilion in Izumisano carries far more carving than such shelters usually do, with pierced brackets.

Built in 1942, the Aritoshi Shrine Rear Gate and East and West Openwork Fences enclose the main hall and record how the precincts were replanned after the move.

Built new in 1942 for the relocated precincts, the Aritoshi Shrine Open Corridor in Izumisano runs eleven open bays along a stone wall to the main hall.

A late Edo stone girder bridge of 3.9 metres, the Aritoshi Shrine Drum Bridge is the only one of the shrine's eleven registered properties that is not a building.

The Aritoshi Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Izumisano runs eleven bays in a single file, its roof framing left open, with a porch added in 1942.

Built in 1669 and moved whole to its present site in 1942, the Aritoshi Shrine Main Hall in Izumisano packs dense carving into a hall of just 6.6 square metres.

Early Edo in date and open on all four sides, the 5.8 metre square Aritoshi Shrine Dance Hall in Izumisano serves each year as a stage for torchlit Noh.

Rebuilt in 1940 and moved two years later, the Aritoshi Shrine South Purification Pavilion in Izumisano shelters a large stone basin inscribed with 1694.

The Ikeda Pia Maru Center in Ikeda, Osaka, built in 1925 as the head office of the Ikeda Jitsugyo Bank, has brown-tiled piers and is now a city facility.

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