Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Katagiri Seiryudo Washing Area is an early Meiji timber shelter roofing the gap between two Kaei storehouses in Sakai, floored with local red brick in herringbone.
Katagiri Seiryudo Main House is a Bunka-era earth-plastered townhouse in Sakai, with a tearoom, altar room and the old shop attached. Registered 2000; closed inside.
Katagiri Seiryudo Middle Storehouse is a tall two-storey storehouse of 12 square metres in Sakai, said to date from the Kaei era; registered in 2000 as a model.
Katagiri Seiryudo West Storehouse was built in Osaka's Nipponbashi in the late Edo period, moved to Sakai in 1873 and now holds a kampo museum. Registered 2000.
Katagiri Seiryudo East Storehouse is a single-storey Kaei-era store on the north edge of a Sakai garden, its brick forecourt running into a Meiji work area.
Katagiri Seiryudo Marishisonten Shrine Sanctuary is a tiny guardian shrine of about 1814 in a Sakai garden, its shelter housing a one-bay nagare-zukuri hall.
Katagiri Seiryudo Brick Wall is a 6.4-metre early Meiji wall in English bond under a small tiled roof, screening a brick-floored work area from a Sakai garden.
The Katashimo Wine Food storehouse in Kashiwara, Osaka, a wine store of the late Taisho period, is an early mix of timber framing with concrete walls and floors.
The presbytery of the Toyonaka Catholic Church in Osaka, a two-storey timber house of 1939, shares the log-built eaves and quiet grounds of the church beside it.
Toyonaka Catholic Church in Osaka, designed by the Czech architect Jan Josef Švagr in 1939, is a timber church with a bell tower and interior in Japanese style.
The oldest storehouse on the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka: a mid-Edo, 2-storey clay-walled building joined to the kitchen wing, its roof carried on a ridge beam.
A rare late-Edo inner gatehouse joined in a T behind the front gate of the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka, splitting the guests’ forecourt from the household entry.
A mid-Edo reception hall on the Kaname headman estate in Kaizuka, Osaka, built for the domain lord, with a wide entrance step and no nageshi rails, out of frugality.
The 18-ken gatehouse fronting the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka: a later-Edo clay-walled nagayamon with formal and kitchen gates, rooms for the lord and a stable.
The smallest storehouse on the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka, read kanenotogura: a late-Edo building whose doorway stacks board, iron-plated and lattice doors.
A late-Edo storehouse on the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka, facing the Kanenoto Storehouse across a yard to form a U-shaped court; slate roof, tiled south face.
The late-Edo earthen wall around the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka: 222 metres of tile-capped clay with curved corners and a west gate, visible from the street.
A later-Edo gate attached to the Front Shoin of the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka, leading into the pond garden, with a waiting bench for tea guests and a privy.
A late-Edo garden gate and 24-metre earthen wall dividing the main and inner gardens of the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka; the gate is dressed with crooked twigs.
A 1738 private study hall, Chouken, deep in the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka, with a flame-shaped window, cloisonne fittings and a tiny tea room. Registered 2017.
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