Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A single-bay yakuimon gate of 1751-1829 in Osaka's Shitadera-machi temple row, the only building at Choshin-ji to survive the 1945 air raids. Registered in 2008.

Osaka's landmark observation tower in Shinsekai, rebuilt in 1956 by Naito Tachu after the 1912 original was lost. Decks at 87.5m and 94.5m. Registered in 2007.

A late Edo earthen storehouse on a corner in Izumisano, trapezoidal because its walls follow two streets. A survivor of the shipping town's iroha warehouse rank.

A 55-metre brick culvert with a horseshoe barrel, drawing Yamato River water into the Nagase since the 1880s. Registered in 2001 and still irrigating 226 hectares.

Built in 1946 and moved in 1959, this registered Osaka tearoom houses three rooms for sencha, sukiya carpentry crossed with Chinese detail and Indian chintz walls.

An 1848 earthen-walled storehouse in central Osaka, remodelled in 1941 into the sencha tearoom Dokuraku, with a tiled earth floor and Chinese-patterned window bars.

Tsuji Family Residence Living Room, a late-Meiji tatami room in Osakasayama, sits lower than the two earthen storehouses flanking it on the estate's north edge.

Tsuji Family Residence Rice Storehouse, an 1870 earthen kura in Osakasayama, has a set-on roof, two lean-tos and a round window facing the fields. Private home.

Tsuji Family Residence Partition Wall, a gated 13-metre Meiji wall in Osakasayama, splits the forecourt of the main house from the garden of its formal room.

Tsuji Family Residence Main House, a thatched yamato-mune farmhouse of 1879 in Osakasayama, pairs a reed roof with tiled wings. Private home; registered in 2006.

Tsuji Family Residence High Wall runs about 42 metres around the west of a Meiji estate in Osakasayama, on cut stone, with family-crest tiles and a Hotei figure.

Tsuji Family Residence Nagayamon Gate, a Meiji gatehouse in Osakasayama, sets a hipped tile roof on the gate and a taller gabled barn beside it. Roadside view only.

Tsuji Family Residence Main Storehouse, a 2-storey earthen kura of 1870 in Osakasayama, is plastered up to its eaves and linked to the house by a corridor. Private.

Tsutsui Family Residence Main House in Sakai is a thatched house built as the office of a land reclamation; radiocarbon dating suggests it dates from around 1700.

Tsutsui Family Residence Zashiki Wing in Sakai began as family quarters and was remade as sukiya-style reception rooms reached clockwise through four rooms.

Tsutsui Family Residence Tea Room in Sakai is a tiny late-Edo tea house with a three-and-daime-mat room, a noble's door, and hip, gable and copper roofs overlapping.

Tsutsui Family Residence Storehouse in Sakai is a two-storey earthen-walled kura with four plaster bands under the eaves, the last storehouse on this Edo estate.

Tsutsui Family Residence Earthen Wall in Sakai is a 134-meter tiled wall of stacked clay that zigzags around the garden, its eaves carried on posts and brackets.

Tsutsui Family Residence Gate Row House in Sakai is a zigzag Edo gatehouse with plastered walls that once held a stable; an ancient camphor tree stands before it.

The Terada Family Residence Stone Wall in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936, runs 56 metres of rusticated granite along the old highway, with one arched service door.

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