Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

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.

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.