Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A 1926 bathhouse on the old Kyoshigoe highway in Izumisano, its granite tub still set under a plastered barrel vault. Registered in 2024, now a city office.
A 1933 bank on the old Kishu highway in Kishiwada, its facade cut by an arch spanning two floors. Attributed to Watanabe Setsu and registered in 2006; now offices.
A late Edo storehouse behind the main house of a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024; the smallest of 12 buildings, it kept altar goods.
A late Edo rice store on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024; the estate's only round-tiled store, with a copper-clad north wall.
A late Edo rice storehouse at the pond-side corner of a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024, with plaster-encased window hoods on its gable.
The main gatehouse of a Kusaka village headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024: a long nagayamon with a rare hipped roof, on the old Daidō road.
A 1784 headman's house in Kusaka, Higashiosaka, registered in 2024: a 12-bay thatched yamatomune farmhouse with five kitchen hearths and a hidden attic room.
A late Edo tool storehouse on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024. At 59 m² it is the largest store, raised on a cut-stone boundary wall.
An early Showa barn on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024; the only non-Edo building of 12, with a gable entry and open roof frame.
A late Edo plastered earthen wall enclosing a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024; 166 meters on a stone base that follows the slope.
A late Edo storehouse for furnishings on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024. It rises from the stone boundary wall and has curved purlins.
A late Edo bracket-arm garden gate and 21-meter plastered wall on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024, lining the path to the main house.
A late Edo two-storey barn on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024. It lines the east street, with four earth-floored rooms opening inward.
A late Edo nagayamon gate on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024, with a wicketed door, an attendants' room and a barn on the east street.
A 1925 former fire station in Imabashi, Osaka, registered in 2007, with its fire engine garage opening and Tudor-arched windows, now an Italian restaurant.
A 1931 four-storey timber house in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002, designed by a doctor as his home and clinic in the image of a lakeside castle.
A late Edo thatched yamatomune farmhouse in Amami, Kawachinagano, moved here around 1900, with a vast doma, four-room plan and old Kawachi details. Now a cafe.
A Meiji-era study and covered corridor on the west stone wall of the Nakamura estate in Amami, Kawachinagano: a six-mat study, a former bath and exposed-lath eaves.
An 1897 two-story storehouse on the Nakamura estate in Amami, Kawachinagano, with plastered eaves, split pine beams and a ridge beam marked as sumo pillar timber.
An 1899 gate row house on the Nakamura estate in Amami, Kawachinagano: black plaster outside, white inside, a storeroom and a tatami suite later used for silkworms.
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