Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Yamada Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Sennan, Osaka, is a late Edo gatehouse about 30 meters long whose tiled roof closes off the estate's forecourt.

Architect Ikedaya Hisakichi built this single-storey house in Izumisano, Osaka, around 1927. A three-mat tea room of salvaged temple timber adjoins the entrance.

This 17-square-metre timber outbuilding adjoins the Ikedaya house in Izumisano, Osaka. Storage fills the ground floor; a six-mat plank-floored study sits above.

In front of the main house of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo storehouse splits one roof between an earth-floored charcoal store and a cotton store.

A 1939 house in Abeno, Osaka, split Japanese on the west and Western on the east, walls and all, with a stone-clad reception room. Registered 2007; private.

A one-storey rice store of about 1890 at the corner of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, with plastered eaves and a high window, closing the street front. Private.

A late Edo gatehouse on the street front of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, with a stepped roof over the gateway and storehouses at each end. Seen from the road.

An 1874 two-storey storehouse at the corner of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, kept low to follow the gate, with a stone base and curved beams inside. Private.

A late Edo farmhouse in Suita, Osaka, with a hip-and-gable roof, tsushi half-storey and 20 m front, registered in 2004 for its plan and latticed front room. Private.

A small, tall 1890 storehouse at the back corner of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, on a high stone base with boat-board walls, linked to the main house. Private.

A late-Edo gatehouse in Toyonaka, Osaka: a gateway with double doors and a wicket to the south, a watch room with a lookout lattice to the north. Registered 2008.

A late-Edo storehouse in Toyonaka, Osaka, moved to the rear of the homestead in late Meiji, its earthen walls left without white plaster. Registered in 2008.

A 21 m roofed wall of about 1890 at the back of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, with bracketed eaves, boat-board cladding and plaster bands. Private property.

An early-Meiji gate and wall in Toyonaka, Osaka, dividing forecourt from guest garden: a sukiya-style gate with log frames and cedar-bark walls. Registered 2008.

The late-Edo Jozenji Temple Sutra Repository in Izumisano is a lime-plastered fireproof store under a pyramidal tile roof, facing the main hall. Registered in 2008.

Built in 1683, the seven-bay Jozenji Temple Main Hall in Izumisano adds side rooms to a standard Jodo-shu plan. Registered in 2008; interior visits by reservation.

The Jozenji Temple Priests' Quarters in Izumisano, a 14 by 16 metre late-Edo residence, keeps its smoke vent, exposed gable frame and guest porch. Registered 2008.

Built in 1797, the open Jozenji Temple Bell Tower in Izumisano has inward-leaning posts and carved baku and lions. Registered in 2008; rung on New Year's Eve.

Jozenji Temple Front Gate in Izumisano is an early-Meiji four-legged gate packed with plant and zodiac carvings, registered in 2008 as hard to reproduce today.

The mid-Edo Jozenji Temple Back Gate in Izumisano is a weighty yakuimon with flanking walls, facing the old Kyoshigoe Kaido coast road. Registered in 2008.