Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Temizusha, a large purification pavilion moved from Yasukuni Shrine, with three round columns at each corner and a slatted transom.

Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall, 1941: a five-bay hip-and-gable hall of unpainted cypress with a chidori gable and a granite-paved floor.

Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Main Hall, a 1940 Kasuga-style sanctuary three bays wide in unpainted Taiwanese cypress, seen through its lattice wall; why it was listed.

Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Gate and Lattice Wall, 1940: a 55-meter openwork fence on kerbstones enclosing the main hall, with a gabled gate and carved kaerumata.

Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Wakamiya Hachimangu Hall, built in 1940 as a school hoanden and moved here: a rare wooden shinmei-style hall with upright ridge posts.

This two-storey late Edo storehouse in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, adjoins the gatehouse side door. Its heavy tiled roof rests on a cambered beam and posts.

This early Meiji building east of the main house in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, holds two 8-mat rooms and a former hearth room. An 1835 plan helps date it.

This mid-Meiji timber shed in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, doubles as the estate's street wall. Its north side is open; double doors let long logs in.

Built in 1826 for a headman family in Suita, Osaka, this main house was registered in 2003. Dated mallets and tiles survive; guided tours by booking Wed, Sat, Sun.

This late Edo storehouse in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, once touched the main house but was hauled north in the Meiji era and extended. It now serves as rooms.

This late Edo storehouse in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, was moved north in the Meiji era. Inside, two rooms; the west lost its upper floor to become a store.

This late Edo gatehouse in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, stretches 10 ken behind a sunken forecourt. Its east end turns north into a storehouse and a side door.

Attached to the kitchen of a Matsubara headman's farmhouse, this late Edo two-story storehouse is the estate's largest and opens an inner store onto the kitchen.

On a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo rice store stands on short posts so air can pass under the floor, and its walls stop at an earthen intermediate coat.

Built in 1805 for a family of village headmen in Matsubara, Osaka, this 439-square-meter farmhouse has a smoke roof over its earthen kitchen and an 1830 guest wing.

At the end of a row of storehouses on a Matsubara headman's estate, this early Meiji store kept the household's ceramics on shelves along all four walls.

Running 18 bays along the north edge of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo shed held firewood and a water wheel; its long earthen wall is visible outside.

Facing the road at the corner of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo gatehouse has an attendants' room, a storeroom and a hip-and-gable roof of heavy tiles.

On a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo storehouse was set aside for imported goods such as sugar. Its roof rests on two beams of naturally curved timber.

Joined to the gate of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo tool storehouse shows a white wall and two upper windows to the road under a detached tiled roof.