Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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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.
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.
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