Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1937 wall-like garden gate 2.7 m long in the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound, with a low sliding doorway and a lath window, copied from Zangetsu-tei.

The street front of a Taisho villa in Tezukayama, Osaka: a bracket-arm gate topped by a tall tiled wall, lattice doors before board doors, and a 15-metre wall.

A late-Taisho villa in Tezukayama, Osaka, built for a Senba merchant. Japanese rooms below, a Western room with mantelpiece, sash windows and arched veranda above.

A rustic garden gate at a Taisho villa in Tezukayama, Osaka, built of knotted logs and bark-on cherry under a cedar-bark soffit, with a tiny waiting arbor beside it.

A late-Taisho storehouse closing a lane in Tezukayama, Osaka: plaster to the eaves, an armoured window hood, iron doors with a family crest, and a flamenco studio.

A light bracket-arm gate into the south garden of a Taisho villa in Tezukayama, Osaka, with bark-on log posts, an adze-rippled beam and panelled doors under iron.

Gazoku-sanso, the 1937 Ikeda home of Hankyu founder Kobayashi Ichizo, blends Spanish tiles and Tatsuyama stone. It is now the Kobayashi Ichizo Memorial Hall.

The nagayamon at the entrance to Kobayashi Ichizo's Ikeda villa is a late-Edo long-house gate, said to have been relocated here in 1936 from a village headman's estate.

A 47-metre reinforced-concrete wall around Kobayashi Ichizo's Ikeda villa, topped with the same tiles as the house so the boundary reads as part of the design.

Conceived by Kobayashi Ichizo, Sokuan rings a three-and-a-half-mat daime room with chair seating so guests take tea at the same eye level as on the tatami.

A tiny two-mat tea room in Kobayashi Ichizo's south garden, with a crawl-in entrance and a cusped window, said to be named by former premier Konoe Fumimaro.

A late Edo storehouse for rice and oil at the corner of a headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka, with a loading door opening onto the moat that runs along the estate.

A late Edo utensil store at a headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka, clad in tall boards on the street side like the adjoining wall, and plastered white inside.

A late Edo headman's farmhouse in Takaishi, Osaka, 268 square meters, with a thatched living end, a tiled end with a low loft and archaic beams over its earth floor.

A late Edo tea room joined to a headman's house in Takaishi, Osaka: two tatami rooms with alcoves and shelves, a bark-edged alcove post and a light pantile roof.

The gatehouse of a late Edo headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka: a tiled hip-and-gable roof, grey plaster walls, a latticed window and side rooms that open inward.

Built in 1924 on the site of Japan's 1922 Housing Improvement Exposition in Minoh, this compact timber house shows the Japanized bungalow style of Amerika-ya.

An 88-square-meter Taisho guest wing in Tondabayashi, Osaka: a 15-mat room with alcove and carved transoms, and a 10-mat antechamber. Registered 2008; not open.

A 45-meter tile-roofed fence of the early Taisho period in Tondabayashi, Osaka, on a diagonal-laid stone wall with boards and plaster above. Registered in 2015.

A 476-square-meter Meiji sake brewing hall in Tondabayashi, Osaka, with a steep gable roof, a brick koji room and a red-brick chimney. Registered in 2008.