Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 2-storey early Showa reinforced concrete storehouse in Sakurai finished like a traditional earthen kura, plastered white to the eaves under a tiled gable roof.

A single-storey early Showa sukiya-style wing in Sakurai with staggered 6- and 8-mat rooms, a raised ceiling, bamboo and wickerwork, and deep copper-edged eaves.

An early Showa tea room of three and a half mats in Sakurai with a triangular gable, crawl-in door, bamboo alcove post and dropped and sloping ceilings.

A low, single-storey early Showa earthen storehouse in Sakurai with a stone-faced base and hooded north door front, its interior since converted into a bath.

A 2-storey early Showa reception wing in Sakurai with matching 6- and 8-mat suites on both floors, a tall upper storey and glass-doored verandas onto a garden.

A small early Showa half-timbered Western-style house in a Sakurai timber merchant's compound, with a strutted gable, arched porch and plaster ceiling medallion.

A bracket gate 2.0 metres wide on a stone plinth, lattice doors outside and folding doors within, plus 15 metres of plastered fence. Registered in 2025.

Registered in March 2025, this 174-square-metre Nara townhouse of 1940 sits back behind its own gate and keeps its half-storey, doma and cooking hearth.

Only 19 square metres, this Nara storehouse of about 1940 pairs a heavy hongawara gable with namako-kabe tilework on its courtyard face. Registered 2025.

An early Showa storehouse for household goods in Uda, Nara: an earthen kura under a separate roof, white plaster over charred cedar, and a shared anteroom.

The 1903 Main House of a soy sauce merchant in Uda-Matsuyama, Nara: lattices, black-plastered mushiko-mado, deep eaves, six rooms and boat-hull ceilings upstairs.

A late Meiji earthen storehouse in Uda, Nara, joining a rice store and a lower miso store, with a well under the front lean-to and two kinds of roof framing.

An early Showa annex behind a soy merchant's house in Uda, Nara, with a corridor of frost-glass doors on its south side, a tatami room upstairs and a bath below.

A 1928 Renaissance-style bank in Kashihara, Nara, registered in 2006, designed by Funahashi Shunichi with Ionic columns, now a wedding restaurant.

A 1923 granite wall, 52 m long, on the south edge of the Kokawa house in Nara: cut stone 2 to 3 m high in 6 to 8 courses with slab coping, holding the raised plot.

The 1923 front gate of the Kokawa house in Nara: a zelkova yakuimon with a tiled roof and a 2.4 m opening, set behind a forecourt between stone-based sleeve walls.

A 1923 timber house in Takabatake, Nara, with three wings in a U and a hip-and-gable reception wing staggered toward the view. Registered in 2008 for its design.

A 1923 tile-capped earthen wall, 29 m long, on the east edge of the Kokawa house in Nara, its clay left at the middle coat, on a boulder base retaining the ground.

A 1923 2-storey earth-walled storehouse at the Kokawa house in Nara, 6.0 by 4.0 m, with a tiled gable roof, a lean-to on two sides and finely made window hoods.

A 1923 gatehouse row by the gate of the Kokawa house in Nara, once servants' rooms and a barn, with white plaster walls and a latticed bay window to the street.

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