Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

This 47-metre early-Showa wall of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara faces the Takami Shrine approach, its plaster pierced with oval and oblong lattice-style openings.

A mid-Meiji garden gate 1.4 m wide in the Tanaka compound in Hirakata, with strongly curved rafters and red posts, dividing the front yard from the main garden.

This late-Edo wall runs north from the Tanaka front gate along the old Kishu Kaido in Izumiotsu: 2.3 m high, 65 cm thick at the base, with an inuyarai guard below.

Built in 1875, the oldest of the Tanaka buildings in Hirakata is a two-storey storehouse with stone footings, white plaster and a plaster band under its eaves.

A small early-Showa storehouse on the west edge of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with a floating tiled roof and plaster walls. Visible from the street.

An early-Meiji gatehouse on the Tanaka compound in Hirakata, with a plastered mushiko-window front and a roof that is gabled at one end and hipped at the other.

An early-Showa gatehouse on the north side of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with a 2-bay gateway and a roof that differs at each end. Seen from the road.

A Bunsei-era gatehouse in Matsubara, moved in 2007: 11 m by 4.0 m under a tiled hip-and-gable roof, with a lattice and yoriki windows. Seen from the street.

A reception room of about 1907 in the Tanaka compound in Hirakata: plastered walls matching its neighbours face the street, while a 6-mat room opens onto the garden.

An early-Showa annex in the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with 8- and 6-mat guest rooms at one end and a barn, bath and pickling shed under a lower roof.

Built in 1823 on the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu, this small earthen granary held grain against famine for the village under a detached roof. Not open to visitors.

The Tanioka Memorial Hall of 1935 in Higashiosaka, Osaka, a clock-tower school rebuilt after the Muroto Typhoon, now houses a university museum of trade history.

Tamate Bridge in Kashiwara, Osaka, registered in 2001, is a five-span suspension bridge of 1928, built for an amusement park and carried on castle-like white towers.

Built in 1874, this is the oldest registered building at Chihaya Shrine, Osaka, and served as its main hall until 1928. Chrysanthemum and wave carvings.

At 127 square metres, this 1932 building is the largest registered structure at Chihaya Shrine, Osaka. Three gabled blocks push forward toward the approach.

This 1.6 square metre pavilion of 1928 shelters a natural stone basin at Chihaya Shrine, Osaka. Posts run to the ridge; two tiers of brackets carry the eaves.

Chihaya Shrine's 1928 worship hall, by Oe Shintaro, is open on all sides but for one set of rear doors, so the eye passes straight through to the forest.

Oe Shintaro designed this 1928 hall on the Chihaya Castle site in Osaka. Slender timbers and finely worked door fittings distinguish it. Registered in 2024.

Just 2.5 square metres, this 1932 subsidiary shrine at Chihaya Shrine in Osaka repeats the Main Hall's round columns, tie-rails and tall gable pendant.

A mid-Meiji farmhouse in Akagawa, Osaka, registered in 2025 as Asahi Ward's first listed building. Deep eaves, a wide odo door, an attic reached only by ladder.

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