Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An early Taisho gate and wall in a Yagi townhouse estate, Kashihara: white plaster to the service side, combed grey plaster and bamboo to the garden. Listed 2009.

An early Taisho sukiya-style parlor and three-mat tea room on an inner garden in a Yagi townhouse estate, Kashihara, with a round window and fretwork. Listed 2009.

A one-bay temple gate from Yakushi-in, a sub-temple of Todai-ji, moved to a Nara samurai house around 1942, with short eaves and a ceiling of reused shutter boards.

An 1856 samurai house in Nara's Tamoncho whose east half is original and whose tearoom, tatami rooms and reception wing were added in 1942 using old timbers.

A late Edo storehouse about 4 m square in Nara's Tamoncho, with eaves on three sides and well-kept lime plaster; moved by hikiya in 1942 and registered in 2006.

A 58 m late Edo earthen wall at a samurai house in Nara's Tamoncho, turning north beside the storehouse and stepping down the sloping west edge under a tiled coping.

A 25 m earthen wall of about 1942 flanking a samurai house gate in Nara, built on Mikasa andesite with bands of tile edges across its face and a pantile coping.

The main gate of Kikusuiro in Nara, an Edo-period yakuimon said to have come from a sub-temple of Enjoji, 2.4 m wide with a heavy tiled roof; registered in 2000.

Built in 1891 when Kikusuiro opened in Nara, this 2-story hip-and-gable building of 299 square meters holds the Umbrella Room and was registered in 2000.

Beside the Main Building entrance of Kikusuiro in Nara, this Edo-period yakuimon from a temple is 1.9 m wide with pan tiles and leads to the garden; registered 2000.

Added in 1901 to the Kikusuiro dining inn in Nara, this 3-story wooden building has a kikusui carving over its entrance and chrysanthemum windows; registered 2000.

The former Ikoma town hall in Nara, a U-shaped timber building of 1933 with three hip-and-gable fronts, is a fine example of Japanese-style government architecture.

An early-Meiji gatehouse raised on a stone retaining wall, its zelkova doorway carrying a curved tie beam and a carved strut borrowed from temple work.

The only building of the five listed as a model of design: a 307-square-metre range holding six guest rooms and a kitchen wing, with its 41 paintings now in Nara.

One late-Edo building holding two uses: a 6-mat parlor under a hipped roof and a storehouse with a separately framed roof, linked by a single narrow passage.

A late-Edo hall of 26 square metres, gable-fronted with a veranda on three sides and a smoke vent for the goma fire rite set into its coffered ceiling.

The only structure and the only cypress-bark roof among the five: a 1.7-metre bracket gate with a carved kirin and flower-lattice doors, dividing two gardens.

An 1849 munamon gate on the south edge of a former sub-temple at Tonomine, Sakurai: thick zelkova posts, deep eaves and a roof re-covered in tile around 1985.

An 1850 sub-temple guest hall at Tonomine, Sakurai: nine rooms ringed by a corridor and veranda, a karahafu porch, and a Buddha's shrine hidden in the roof space.

An 1850 garden gate in an earthen wall at a former sub-temple at Tonomine, Sakurai: a light udekimon whose copper roof keeps the edge of its cypress-bark eaves.

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