Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Leaning on a storehouse wall on a Matsubara headman's estate, this 8-square-meter servants' rest room keeps a small roof that once led to a vanished storehouse.

Following a stone-lined water channel around a Matsubara headman's estate, this 57-meter tiled wall changes its outer finish from black plaster to boards and earth.

On the north edge of a Matsubara headman's estate, this Meiji gate and archive storehouse shows black plaster and salvaged boat planks to the street under one roof.

This late Edo bath building on a Matsubara headman's estate uses polished logs and open roof framing, with a shoji-lit dressing room and a hot-water doorway.

This small Edo-period guest lodge on a Matsubara headman's estate is where the family is said to have hosted the Osaka poet Hirose Kyokuso and loyalist activists.

A Taisho-era one-bay gate at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, set back from the street wall and leading guests across a forecourt to the annex.

The largest building at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka: a Taisho-era brewhouse 12 bays long whose raking and tie beams open up a long brewing floor.

A Taisho-era brewhouse at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka, clad to the eaves in charred boards and standing eave to eave with its neighbour on a back lane.

A Taisho-era brewhouse 16 bays long at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka, its charred-board gable facing the street and its roof on beams set every two bays.

The 1916 shop and home of the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka: an 11-bay townhouse whose low upper floor and slatted mushiko windows hide modern living rooms.

A Taisho-era storehouse at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, its sides plastered to mimic clapboards and its gable front set with namako-kabe tiles.

A Taisho-era guest wing at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, pairing a fine zashiki with a Western parlour of tall windows and a plaster ceiling rose.

A Taisho-era tile-capped wall at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, whose coping continues the main house eave line and keeps the street front whole.

The Nishiyama Family Residence Main House in Toyonaka is a 1912 ready-built home enlarged into an L-shaped house with a guest wing. Registered in 2018.

The 1912 main gate and 13-meter wall of the Nishiyama Family Residence face the street in Toyonaka: a bracket gate and charred-cedar wall, registered in 2018.

The Nishiyama Family Residence High Wall in Toyonaka runs 49 meters along the east side: an early Taisho charred-cedar wall with tiled coping, registered in 2007.

The 1929 detached wing of the Nishiyama Family Residence in Toyonaka looks through wide glass doors onto Seiryutei and has a tea room and waiting arbor by Okada.

A small 1910s Western-style annex at the Nishiyama Family Residence in Toyonaka, remodeled in 1939 with Art Deco cut glass and its furniture. Registered in 2007.

The Nishiyama Family Residence Connecting Corridor in Toyonaka, about 1940, opens to the garden on one side, with a woven ceiling and a pebble-and-tile floor.

The United Church of Christ in Japan Osaka Church, registered in 1996, is a red-brick Romanesque church by Vories, completed in 1922 and open after services.

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