Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Jigan-ji's main hall in Yao, Osaka, rebuilt in 1817, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. This Shinshu hall is 19 metres wide and centres a temple town from 1606.

Jigan-ji's side gate and earthen wall in Yao, Osaka, date to early Meiji. A one-bay gate and a 12-metre tiled wall run north to the main gate, edging a temple town.

Built in 1907 as a court branch office, this earthen-walled storehouse on the old Koya pilgrimage road keeps its register shelving and iron windows. Free entry.

Built in 1938 at a Shingon temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, Jizoji Kuri is a six-room priests' residence with a lesser cuckoo carved above its formal entrance.

Jizoji Sanmon, a single-bay yakuimon gate of 1902 in Kawachinagano, Osaka, is 2.2 metres wide, stands atop a stone stairway, and is usually found closed to visitors.

Jizoji Shokido, a small hall of 1935 at a Shingon temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, was given by the Osaka firm whose camphor mothballs bore the demon-queller Shoki.

Built in 1721 at a Shingon temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, Jizoji Hondo has a pyramidal tiled roof, a coved coffered ceiling and a celestial figure at its altar.

Built in 1674 as the main hall of a branch temple in Mie and moved to Osaka in 1953, this deep hall at Shitennoji Temple is entered through its gable end.

The roofed gallery enclosing the central precinct of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka covers 1116 square metres and still follows the line excavation found beneath it.

At the north end of the walled precinct of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, this 1963 reconstruction divides its sanctuary into a winter hall and a summer hall.

Rebuilt in 1959 to about 37 metres, this steel-and-concrete pagoda at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka has 6 interior levels and a spiral stair visitors can climb.

Rebuilt in 1961 on its excavated footprint, the Golden Hall of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka was the first ancient Japanese hall reconstructed from dug evidence.

Built in 1808 as the gate of a hall enshrining Tokugawa Ieyasu, this small four-legged gate at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka now stands before the Prince Shotoku hall.

A late Meiji tea house in the abbot's garden at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, planned around one trapezoidal and one triangular room joined by a service space.

The south gate of the walled precinct at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, rebuilt in 1963 with guardian kings in its side bays and deliberately kept to a single storey.

Once the Shoten hall of a Mie branch temple, this three-bay pyramidal building at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka now shelters ashes before their final interment.

Said to come from Osaka's 1903 industrial exhibition, this octagonal timber pavilion at Shitennoji Temple carries Corinthian capitals and coloured glass windows.

Built as the gate of the hall enshrining the Tokugawa shoguns, this 6.2 square metre bow-roofed gate at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka is carved with a guardian dragon.

The Shibakawa Building in Osaka, an Art Deco office block of 1927 near Yodoyabashi, wears Maya and Inca style ornament and now houses shops and cafés.

The Shotokukan Guardian Shrine in Higashiosaka is a 1939 household shrine called Hachiman-san, a Hachiman-zukuri copy of Usa Jingu's sanctuary on a granite base.

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