Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A two-storey 1952 storehouse east of the Yamamoto main house in Taishi, Osaka, with board skirting, white plaster and bracketed drip tiles. Registered in 2003.

A late Edo farmhouse on the Takenouchi Kaido in Taishi, Osaka, under a yamatomune roof of thatch flanked by tiles, repaired and reopened in 2004. Registered in 2002.

A 1912 reception wing on the Yamamoto estate in Taishi, Osaka: hip-and-gable tiled roof, eight-mat shoin room with alcove, shelves and writing bay. Registered 2002.

Taiyoshi Hyakuban, a Taisho-era building on a corner of Osaka's old Tobita quarter, has a karahafu entrance and themed rooms, one modelled on the Yomeimon gate.

The Takahashi Family Residence in Minoh, Osaka, a timber Western house of 1919 by the Minoh River, is a fine example of the guest houses of large Taisho-era homes.

A 41-meter reinforced concrete wall of 1938 enclosing the Nagi Shrine sanctuary, plastered with posts and beams and climbing the slope under specially shaped tiles.

Built in 1940 for the shrine to Kusunoki Masashige, this worship hall raises only its central porch bay under a karahafu gable, with an offering hall set behind.

The 1938 Kasuga-style sanctuary of Nagi Shrine, honoring Kusunoki Masashige: unpainted cypress, broad stairs, a kikusui crest on the ridge, and how to view it.

Built around 1920 with public donations to display relics of Kusunoki Masashige, this plastered storehouse has four daylight windows on each side and central cases.

A late-Edo house in Kaizuka's old temple town, registered in 2003. Its closed seven-bay front and a stout window facing Gansenji suggest a samurai or official.

A townhouse of about 1932 built by a boxwood comb-making family in Kaizuka, Osaka, registered in 2003. A tall plastered front rises over a traditional floor plan.

A small late-Edo townhouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, registered in 2003. It stands on ground 60 cm higher than its 1932 neighbor, yet its low roof sits beneath that house.

Rebuilt in 1877 on the old Kishu Kaido in Izumiotsu, this 10-bay gate flanks its passage with a bedding store and an attendants' room. Private; see it from the road.

An early-Taisho nagaya gate on the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu: a 1-bay service passage beside a barn with earth, tatami and plank floors. Not open to visitors.

Built in 1855 on the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu, this wing pairs a formal shikidai entrance with 10- and 8-mat rooms set at right angles. Not open to visitors.

An early-Meiji rice store between the gate and annex of the Tanaka compound in Hirakata, with plastered eaves and 2 latticed yoriki windows facing the street.

Built in 1887 above the Amano River in Hirakata, this south-facing landowner's house has a plastered front with mushiko windows and a heavily framed earthen floor.

The mid-Edo main house of the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu, a Kii-domain rest stop, spans 11 and a half by 7 bays around a vast earthen floor. Not open to visitors.

An 1872 farmhouse in Matsubara with a doma filling half its length, four rooms in a grid, and an accounting counter before the altar room. Still lived in; not open.

A headman-class farmhouse in Matsubara recorded as built in 1709, retiled with an attic added in the Tenpo era, and relocated in 2007. Still lived in; not open.

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