Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The early Showa lodging where yamamori, stewards of the Okahashi family's Yoshino forests, stayed when visiting its Kashihara estate in Nara. Registered in 2020.
At the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, the early Showa lodging where the shutto, chief of the family's Yoshino forest stewards, stayed. Joined to the main house.
A 1906 two-storey storehouse in Yagi, Kashihara, built into a merchant house: white plaster outside, hinoki cypress panelling and a teak winding staircase within.
At the back of a Yagi merchant house in Kashihara, a 1906 earthen-walled building altered c.1936: mostly storage, with a plain retirement room upstairs.
A 1906 merchant town house on the Shimotsumichi in Yagi, Kashihara: a low attic-storey shop front with lattice and white plaster, and a full two-storey home behind.
A single-room annex of 1906 at the heart of a Yagi merchant house in Kashihara: eight tatami mats, an alcove, and a board room serving as the storehouse anteroom.
A 1906 shed built into a 56-meter earthen wall at the back of a Yagi merchant house in Kashihara, with open roofed bays along it once used for firewood and ash.
A 1906 gabled corridor in Yagi, Kashihara, joining main house and annex: an open walk on the courtyard, a sukiya-style dressing room and a round-windowed bath.
A late Edo storehouse at the northwest corner of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara, jutting onto the ancient Shimotsumichi road: white plaster over boarded walls.
A small late Edo storehouse behind the retirement rooms of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara, joined by an open copper-roofed corridor dividing two gardens.
The largest building of a merchant estate on the ancient Shimotsumichi road in Kashihara, Nara: a late Edo townhouse 20 metres wide, nine rooms behind stout lattice.
A 1922 gatehouse on the north side of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara: 19 metres of black plaster over a tiled namako-kabe base, with a stepped ridge line.
A 1921 reception wing in a merchant estate garden in Kashihara, Nara: two upper rooms ringed by a veranda, once said to view the Yamato Sanzan, and a tea room.
A 1922 wall wrapping the northeast corner of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara: 30 metres of timber and render on a stone footing, made to look like a tsuiji-bei.
A late Edo bracket-arm gate on the ancient Shimotsumichi road in Kashihara, Nara, leading to a merchant family's retirement rooms, lattice door to the street.
A mid-Meiji two-storey plaster storehouse jutting toward the ancient Shimotsumichi road in Yagi, Kashihara, with namako tile walls and a granite base. Listed 2009.
A mid-Meiji guest gate beside the main house of a Yagi townhouse estate in Kashihara: lattice door with wicket, board doors, copper canopy. Listed 2009.
An early Taisho roofed wall, 3.5 meters high, turning the southwest corner of a townhouse estate in Yagi, Kashihara, to enclose a small garden. Listed 2009.
A large mid-Meiji townhouse on the ancient Shimotsumichi road in Yagi, Kashihara, with double deep eaves, projecting lattices and slit windows. Registered in 2009.
A mid-Meiji two-storey storehouse at the southeast rear of a townhouse estate in Yagi, Kashihara, by an old moat; its wall lines a historic lane. Listed 2009.
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