Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A Meiji-era reception wing joined to the Nakamura main house in Amami, Kawachinagano: two eight-mat rooms with a Kitayama cedar alcove post and zelkova planks.
Genshoji Temple Priests' Quarters, a later Edo temple residence in Osaka's Shitaderamachi, has a hip-and-gable front, gabled back and a smoke vent; registered 2008.
Genshoji Temple Main Gate in Osaka's Shitaderamachi is a late Edo yakuimon 3.2 m wide, with high-set beams, a board ceiling and deep carving; registered in 2008.
Genshoji Temple Tower Gate in Abeno, Osaka, is an 1889 Dragon Palace gate moved here in 1923 that survived wartime air raids on the Kumano Kaido; registered 2003.
Komyoji Temple Priests' Quarters in Osaka are a late Edo temple kitchen and residence with a ridge smoke vent, white plaster walls and a lattice-gabled entry porch.
Komyoji Temple Main Gate in Osaka is an 1866 yakuimon gate facing Matsuyamachi-suji, 3.2 meters wide, with flanking walls and a carved dragon under the roof.
Komyoji Temple Main Hall in Osaka's Shitaderamachi dates from 1706. Its hip-and-gable roof, five-bay front and classic Pure Land plan led to registration in 2008.
Kotani Family Residence Main House in Sakai is a rare mid-Edo farmhouse of 469 square meters with a stepped yamatomune roof, remodeled in 1809. Exterior view only.
Kotani Family Residence Main Gate in Sakai is a Meiji-era gatehouse with a tiled hip-and-gable roof, lookout lattice and white plaster atop an S-shaped stone ramp.
Kotani Family Residence Earthen Wall in Sakai runs 132 meters from the road up an S-shaped stone ramp to the main gate, a Meiji-era tiled wall on a cobblestone base.
Kotani Family Residence South Gate in Sakai is a Meiji-era gatehouse of 108 square meters with a gabled tiled roof, three rooms, warrior windows and a storehouse.
Built in 1925, this shinkabe storehouse holds a rice store and a tile store. Its gabled roof mixes heavier tile to the south and lighter tile to the north.
Main building of the Kotanijō museum: a late-Edo home of the Kotani, village headmen. A copper-clad gabled wing meets a tiled reception hall and a stepped entrance.
At the east end of the front row, this late-Edo storehouse, once a rice store and now the exhibition room, is the only one of the five registered as a model of design.
This Taishō dozō east of the gate holds a rice store and a book store. Its library reflects the record-keeping of the family that later founded the museum.
The oldest of the museum's five buildings, this mid-Edo gate is said to have come from the Hakata domain around 1871. Its front has board doors and comb-shaped windows.
Built in 1911 for a Tanimachi clothing merchant and moved to its present Osaka site in 1957, this three-story earthen storehouse was registered in December 2024.
Completed in 1903 behind a medicine merchant's house on Osaka's Doshomachi, this earthen storehouse stayed registered when its neighbours were designated in 2001.
The Konishi Choyokan Entrance Hall of about 1912 in Abeno Ward, Osaka, has a split-bamboo ceiling, a boat-bottom corridor and a diagonally laid tile floor.
Built in 1912 in Abeno Ward, Osaka, the Konishi Choyokan Palace has a 15-mat hall under a coved coffered ceiling and a tea room fitted into the basement below.
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