Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A 1919 wooden chapel in Osaka's Sumiyoshi Ward that gained a 2-storey front and tower in 1931. Registered in 2005; look for the tower and the blocked round window.
A 1928 church in Shinsaibashi, Osaka, built with Nakamura Mamoru's concrete block system. Registered in 2009; note the grand stair and 6-pillar entrance.
A 1929 concrete church facing Osaka Tenmangu Shrine, registered in 2015. Its sanctuary has pierced elliptical arch beams and a 2021 Garnier pipe organ.
Murano Togo's 1928 concrete church tower in Abeno, Osaka, registered in 2025, with circle-and-cross openwork and the curving 1981 chapel he designed behind it.
Early Showa yakuimon gate, 1.4 m wide, atop steps in the stone wall at the back of a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka, between rice storehouse and barn.
Early Taisho gate and 8.8 m wall of a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka. The gate's side walls project in a U under one gabled roof. Registered in 2019.
A 2-story storehouse of 1909 at a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka: 69 sq m, doors at each end under an open lean-to, now an event space. Listed 2019.
Late Edo main house of a Kawachi cotton merchant in Yao, Osaka, under a yamatomune roof of thatch and tile; part became a post office in 1876. Registered in 2019.
Late Edo storehouse for household goods at a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka: 19 sq m, 3 plaster bands under the eaves, ship planks below. Listed 2019.
Early Showa barn at a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka, with doors at each end under an open lean-to and exposed-frame plaster walls. Listed 2019.
Late Edo storehouse where a Yao cotton merchant kept Kawachi cotton: ship planks on the street side, open lean-to facing the courtyard, sloping beams. Listed 2019.
The northern gate of an Osaka acupuncture compound, built around 1938 with copper tiles, a slatted transom and a coffered ceiling behind. Registered in 2019.
The 1902 front gate of an Osaka acupuncture compound, a gabled roof rising from a tall wall with a carved pendant beneath it. Listed in 2019 as a model of design.
Built in 1902 to receive guests at an Osaka acupuncture house, with exposed posts to the east and a sealed storehouse wall facing the street. Registered in 2019.
Built in 1910 as the dwelling of an Osaka acupuncture family, with plaster carried over the eaves, a barred window and a wing for patient rooms. Listed in 2019.
The late Edo treatment building of an acupuncture house in Osaka, with a steep gable, aisle roofs and four rooms behind an earth-floored passage. Registered in 2019.
A small 1910 storehouse in an Osaka acupuncture compound, its ridge turned east to west and its plastered eaves projecting well beyond the wall. Registered in 2019.
An 1902 storehouse in an Osaka acupuncture compound, its white plaster carried over the eaves and banded above a skirt of charred cedar boarding. Registered in 2019.
Built in 1934 as an office and residence when an Osaka bottle-cap maker moved to Kitatsumori, with a coffered reception room and an upstairs tatami room.
A one-story office of about 1937 at an Osaka bottle-cap factory, fronted in scratch tile and split stone, with a staff canteen behind and a shrine-topped time clock.
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