Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

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.

Meiji storehouse in the northwest corner of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: the oldest of its 25 registered buildings, now holding the ink moulds. Registered 1998.

Taisho wall at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 14.3 metres on the north lane, with a plaster cornice; storehouse eaves behind form a second line. Registered 1998.

Kettle house of about 1926 at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a tall gabled room with an earth floor and a cut-stone well in its one open corner. Registered in 1998.

Taisho drying house at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a long plastered building on the north lane where ink dries, with round windows for air. Registered 1998.

Building of about 1926 at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: once rooms for live-in staff, now a changing room, extended twice around a 2-storey core. Registered 1998.

Early Showa workshop at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a tall single-storey room where kneaded glue and soot are weighed and pressed into moulds. Registered in 1998.

Early Taisho workshop at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a long building, once the office, where finished ink is packed, on the south edge. Registered 1998.