Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The main house of the Ota sake brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga. A roof-tile inscription dates it to 1829, a rare benchmark for dating the region's town houses.
A late-Edo tea room at the Ota brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga, behind the main house across a courtyard. Its three-mat plan and crawl-in door reveal the family's wealth.
The largest building at the Ota brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga. This early-Meiji fermentation store on a stone base shows a long western wall and joins the south storehouse.
A large early-Meiji brewing storehouse at the Ota brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga. It links the living and brewing blocks and anchors the storehouses that shape the town.
Built in 1930 at the southeast corner of a Naramachi plot, this eleven-square-metre earthen storehouse has plastered walls, board skirting and a sliding door.
Built in early Meiji as a midwife's home, this Naramachi townhouse keeps three rooms lined beside an earth-floored passage under a low tiled roof. Registered 2014.
Behind the main house stands a Taisho detached room: a six-mat guest space, a board-floored bay, and a corridor left open to the courtyard under deep eaves.
Built in 1919 at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, the only storehouse linked to the main house by a corridor, with a truss roof and a hoisting hatch inside.
The 1917 main house of the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara: 399 square metres, nine rooms in three rows, an earth-floored bay and a tea room off a corridor.
The largest of seven storehouses at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara: a Taisho rice store of 115 square metres with an exposed timber frame and truss roof.
A storehouse of about 1938 in the northwest corner of the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, named for that direction, with a braced wagoya roof. Registered 2020.
The oldest of seven storehouses at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, built about 1887 for tableware, with namako walls, a raised roof and a copper hood.
A 30-metre early Showa gatehouse at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, with eaves on projecting brackets and gatekeeper and servant rooms. Registered in 2020.
An early Showa building at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, pairing a garden gate and a barn under one gable, told apart by the boarding. Registered 2020.
The oldest of the 15 registered Okahashi buildings in Kashihara, Nara: a late Edo guest wing dividing garden from work yard, with a rare tokozashi ceiling. Private.
A 1919 rice storehouse at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, facing inward but forming the wall of the east lane, where its boarded back can be seen.
The smallest of the 15 Okahashi buildings in Kashihara, Nara: a 17-square-metre barn with a maneki roof and a matching 7.2-metre tiled wall. Registered 2020.
An early Showa stone gate with an iron arch and a 119-metre tiled earthen wall enclosing the back of the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara. Seen from the east lane.
Built in 1917 with the main house, the principal storehouse of the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, has two storeys and rows of bracketed window hoods.
The smallest of seven registered storehouses at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, this corner rice store carries three plaster bands under its eaves.
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