Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Sumiyoshi Taisha Sacred Horse Stable is a 1931 timber stable in Osaka still housing the shrine's white horse, with stall and groom's room under one roof.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Funatama Shrine Main Hall is an early Meiji shrine in Osaka with a cypress-bark roof and doors painted with ships and aeroplanes.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Omotosha Worship Hall and Offering Hall is an 1822 building in Osaka linking two zones and housing the shrine of the first high priest.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Omotosha Main Hall is an 1822 sanctuary in Osaka set indoors, the only one in the grounds, with a cypress-bark roof and rich metal fittings.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Kifunesha Main Hall is a late Edo one-bay shrine to a rain god behind the main halls in Osaka, matching its neighbour in form but not in detail.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Tachigikisha Main Hall is an 1828 one-bay shrine behind the main halls in Osaka, pairing a shop-shelf front with Sumiyoshi-style gable struts.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Tatsusha Main Hall is a late Edo shrine by the sacred pond in Osaka, built over a well in its unfloored inner room for a water goddess.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Nankunsha Main Hall is a tiny 1954 vermilion sanctuary in Osaka set into a sacred camphor tree, the heart of the Hattatsu-san faith.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Ema Hall is a 1929 open-sided votive pavilion in Osaka with a mortar floor made to look like stone, paired with the North Ema Hall.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Great Torii Gate is an early Edo stone torii at the south entrance in Osaka, 5.7 m wide and 6.4 m high, near the sacred rice paddy.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Middle Gate is a late Edo gate past the stone stage in Osaka; 5.3 m wide with a tiled roof and lively carving, the shrine's largest gate.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Mizugaki Gate is a late Edo four-legged gate behind the First Sanctuary in Osaka, traditional in form but carved with thick, bold lines.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Side Approach Kaku Torii is a 1919 square-pillared stone torii in Osaka; with its northern twin it flanks the shrine's West Great Torii.
A 1936 reinforced-concrete church in Osaka's Juso, designed by the Vories office to replace one lost to the Muroto Typhoon. Rose window, belfry, free entry.
The late-Edo priests' wing of a tiny urban temple in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002. A townhouse lattice window marks the terakoya where Kawaguchi Ekai studied.
A late-Edo Buddhist hall of just 24 square metres in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002. Its palace-form shrine cabinet marks a rare urban Shugendo survival.
A late-Edo gate only 1.7 metres wide in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002 as a model of design for the way its curved rafters and low walls order the street.
Antonin Raymond designed this concrete school in Neyagawa, finished in 1932 and registered in 1997. An early Japanese finger plan, with a Spanish colonnade.
A 1925 office and residential building in Semba, Osaka, registered in 2000, with a full-height patio courtyard ringed by galleries; now a popular tenant building.
Part of the 1928 banquet pavilion for Emperor Showa's enthronement, moved to Suita and now a Jodo Shinshu hall. Black-lacquered coved ceiling, period chandeliers.
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