Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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This 1930 timber building near JR Sakurai Station in Nara holds a kindergarten below and the chapel of Sakurai Saint Paul's Church above, with pointed-arch windows.
A 1967 house in Nara City under stacked hip-and-gable roofs, its central-corridor plan mixing sukiya woven-wood ceilings with new 1960s materials; registered 2018.
An early Showa storehouse in a Nara City garden corner, its front dressed in namako tiling, stepped kakegonuri doors and a plaster relief above; registered 2018.
An early Showa annex behind a Nara City house: two tatami rooms with tokonoma, writing bay, carved transom and cusped window, copper eaves; registered 2018.
An early Showa two-story storehouse in Nara City with a washed artificial-stone base, a black-plaster door frame and plaster carried over its eaves; registered 2018.
The formal gate of a senior headman's compound in Yoshino, Nara: a zelkova-framed yakuimon with a copper roof and twenty metres of plastered wall beside it.
Built in 1773 for a senior village headman below Mt. Ryumon in Nara, this thatched Yoshino farmhouse keeps stopped door grooves and a formal entrance board.
An early Meiji bracket gate in Yoshino, Nara, built for a detached guest wing that no longer stands, with curved rafters and notched weatherboarding beside it.
A late Edo document storehouse in Yoshino, Nara, built to guard a village headman's papers from fire and damp with an air-gapped roof and interlocking doors.
The Ushitani house in Haibara, Uda, Nara, built in 1968 to a design by the Sakakura Junzo office, sets its rooms clockwise in a square plan under radiating rafters.
Uchiyama-ke Kashiya, registered in 2020, is a single-storey Nara house built to be let in the Showa Depression. Grey lime walls, and no earth passage inside.
A small late-Edo storehouse in the Ota brewery courtyard in Tatsuta, Ikaruga. Its sea-cucumber plaster and framed doorway show a care that earned its listing.
A long late-Edo shed at the Ota brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga, linking the old kitchen to the inner storehouse. One side is open, the other a boundary wall.
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.
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