Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The largest storehouse on the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka: a later-Edo 2-storey building 7 ken long, split into two rooms, with heart-shaped carving by the door.
Karasunomiya Shrine Inari Shrine (Former Main Hall) in Osaka is a carved 1781 nagare-style shrine, once the main hall, moved around 1930 and 1967. Registered 2019.
Karasunomiya Shrine Middle Gate and Openwork Fence in Osaka (1931) frames the main hall: a copper-roofed gate with lattice doors and a 30 m slate-roofed fence.
The Karasunomiya Shrine Worship Hall in Osaka, registered in 2008, is a hall of 1931 its gable filled with carved dragons, unlike the plain main hall.
Karasunomiya Shrine Main Hall in Osaka is a 1931 shinmei-style sanctuary 2.8 m long, with free-standing ridge posts, straight eaves and finials. Registered 2008.
A closed 2-story late Edo storehouse in Izumi, Osaka, that kept the family's clothing and bedding, with one door, 2 small windows and raking beams in its roof.
A long, low late Edo storehouse in Izumi, Osaka, with a detached tiled roof, 2 doors under a pent roof, a plaster eaves band and a namako-kabe tiled east gable.
A late Edo farm gate in Izumi, Osaka, hipped at one end and gabled at the other, with board doors and a wicket, a privy, a cattle stall and a passage to the house.
A small late Edo storehouse in Izumi, Osaka, under a detached tiled roof, its plaster walls boarded below on the street side and tiled namako-kabe on the yard side.
A late Edo row gate in Izumi, Osaka, with a storeroom, a servants' room and a six-mat reception room with a hanging alcove; now the entrance to Kawanotei.
An 1851 farmhouse in Izumi, Osaka, with a steep thatched yamatomune roof, tiled side wings, a formal shikidai entrance and eight rooms in two rows; registered 2024.
Rebuilt in 1954 after a wartime air raid, the Kanda Shrine Kagura Hall opens its west side for rites by removing a post. The youngest of 12. What to see.
Built in 1935, the Kanda Shrine Saikan fits a full formal alcove into eight mats and lights its anteroom with a round lattice window. What to see and how to visit.
The Kanda Shrine Assembly Hall, built in 1882 and moved here in 1924, holds formal Edo-style rooms under a roof that changes from hipped to gabled. How to view it.
Built in 1758, the Kanda Shrine Sacred Horse Stable is the oldest of its 12 registered buildings and shelters a wooden horse carved that same year. What to look for.
Built in 1780 by a team including carpenter Tanegashima Kanzaemon, the Kanda Shrine Shinmon Gate changes its bracketing and rafters between storeys. How to view it.
The Kanda Shrine Earthen Wall, a late Edo wall of tile and clay courses 20 metres long, frames the approach to the Shinmon gate. Inside the gate its layers show.
Built in 1773, the Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Ichinosha Main Hall hides a bark-roofed sanctuary with an arched eave inside a tiled hall. How to see it.
The Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Gonosha Main Hall of 1860 is the twin of the Yonnosha hall, identical but for its porch carving. How to compare the pair.
The Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Sannosha Main Hall is a tile-roofed shrine of 1860, just 1.1 square metres, with a central post and two doors. What to look for.
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