Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Rebuilt in 1932 after a fire to lodge an imperial prince, the Konishi Choyokan New Palace in Abeno Ward, Osaka, was raised for chairs and hung with a chandelier.

The Konishi Choyokan Moon-Viewing Pavilion of 1932 in Abeno Ward, Osaka, is a 12.8-metre vaulted walk with a matted room carried over the garden on posts.

The Konishi Choyokan Gate and Roofed Earthen Wall of 1914 runs 37 metres along a street in Abeno, Osaka, its eaves tiles crested and its ridge inlaid with a sumo.

An early Showa single-storey storehouse on the corner of a Takatsuki hill farmstead: 10 metres of white plaster, its door and small eaved window facing the house.

The Taisho-era main house of a hill farmstead in Nakahata, Takatsuki: 17 metres long under a tiled irimoya roof, with mushiko-mado slots lighting its loft. Private.

A storehouse of 1925 on a Takatsuki hill farmstead. It continues the West Storehouse's wall on the stonework but rises a little higher and has ground-floor windows.

A Taisho-era gatehouse on a Takatsuki hill farmstead, with board doors, a wicket and a room for hired men, joined at its north end to an Edo-period storehouse.

A Taisho-era storehouse joined to the main house of a Takatsuki hill farmstead, set on a stone retaining wall, plastered white outside and lined with boards inside.

Built in the late Taisho era and registered in 2008, this detached wing of a Takatsuki mountain farmhouse sets two parallel rows of rooms, one formal, one sukiya.

Built in 1828, the oldest of eight registered buildings on a Takatsuki farm, this small clay-walled kura joins a row of white-plastered storehouses facing the road.

A late Edo two-storey storehouse on a Takatsuki hill farmstead, its placed roof wrapped in lime plaster, standing between the gatehouse and an older kura.

The Kobayashi newspaper shop in Hirano, Osaka, a concrete shop of 1929 with a timber house behind, fronts its arcade with pilasters and arched windows.

Late Edo building on the west street of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: retirement rooms, a stable and a side gate, with two different roof ends.

Late Edo storehouse for household goods on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: tall, two storeys, no ornament, with rafters sealed in white plaster.

Late Edo guest wing of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: a formal alcove built with slim timbers and low ceilings, and landscapes by Kaneko Sesso.

Late Edo main house of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: earthen work floor, six rooms, slatted windows hiding a full upper floor, layered tiled roofs.

Late Edo storehouse at the corner of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: only 21 square meters, but with eaves and gable edges sealed in continuous plaster.

Late Edo walls of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: 105 meters in all, sealed in plaster around the garden, with an exposed frame at one corner.

Late Edo link building on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: two storeys at one end, one at the other, built to the standard of the main house.

Late Edo barn on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: a deep canopy on bracket arms and three rooms that held pickles, brushwood and farm tools.

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