Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late Edo storehouse at the northwest corner of the Ebara compound in Toyonaka, 4.9 by 4.0 metres, unusual for its veranda, lean-to roof and covered passage.

Taisho-era gate and wall between the main house and annex of the Ebara compound in Toyonaka: a bracketed gate with a sliding plank door, the wall open at the top.

A late Edo guest wing behind the main house of Ozone's headman family in Toyonaka: an eight-mat room with alcove, openwork transoms and a tea-house-style veranda.

A Taisho-era roji gate and 13-metre wall splitting the front garden of the Ebara compound in Toyonaka, its outer face finished in black plaster and lattice windows.

The Endo residence in Tezukayama, Osaka, built in 1922 to a design by William Merrell Vories as a missionary house, has a central stair hall and a fireplace.

The Osaka Norin Kaikan Building in Minamisenba, Osaka, a tenant block of 1930, keeps its stone and tile walls and its original stairwell, mail chute and strongroom.

The Osaka Gas Building on Midosuji, built in 1933 to designs by Yasui Takeo, is an eight-storey office clad in black stone below and white tile above.

The Osaka Club in Imabashi, Osaka, built in 1924 to designs by Yasui Takeo, is a four-storey concrete club with solid walls and Indian and Islamic details.

The Main Tower of Osaka Castle, a concrete keep built in 1931 with citizens' donations as a museum in the castle park, is loved as a symbol of Osaka and still open.

The Hale Chapel of Osaka Jogakuin, south of Osaka Castle Park, is a chapel and auditorium of 1951 by the Vories office, with a lofty hall and a plain exterior.

The Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts in Tennoji Park, built in 1936, is a rare large prewar museum with a gabled entrance hall, gallery wings and tiled copings.

The Osaka Celluloid Hall in Higashinari, Osaka, a concrete hall of 1931 moved in 1937, joins an Expressionist front of egg-shaped columns to a town-house front.

The Osaka Tenmangu Shrine Kagura Hall of 1904, linked to the worship hall by a corridor, keeps old forms: boat brackets, sparse double rafters and lattice shutters.

The Osaka Tenmangu Shrine Assembly Hall of 1911 holds 5 rooms between the main hall and Baikaden. Once a waiting room, it now hosts receptions and plum exhibitions.

The Osaka Tenmangu Shrine Baikaden, a 1928 guest hall built for a Michizane festival, has a double-coved lattice ceiling in its east room and now hosts weddings.

Late-Edo North Storehouse of the Okamoto family in Kaizuka, Osaka: 6 ken long, one room inside, doors on two sides and a link to the Zashiki. Registered in 2003.

Meiji-era detached reception wing of the Okamoto family in Kaizuka, Osaka. Though altered, it keeps a fine 8-mat tea room. Registered in 2003; closed to visitors.

The Okamoto soy brewers' mid-Edo townhouse faces Oshita-suji in Kaizuka with a 6-ken frontage. A ridge tag dates its rear wing to 1841; it was registered in 2003.

Westernmost of three Okamoto storehouses in Kaizuka, Osaka, dated by a ridge tag to 1857, it alone keeps its traditional tile roof. Registered 2003; exterior only.

Central Okamoto storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, said to date from 1716 to 1736; its old timbers and a later altar room built around it support that. Slate roof now.

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