Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Early Taisho kitchen at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a wing of the main house where the craftsmen ate, dividing the street side from the works. Registered 1998.

Street-front shop of Kobaien, Nara sumi ink maker since 1577: an early Taisho building with black plaster walls, a large signboard and deep eaves. Open on weekdays.

Early Showa glue house at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: an earth-floored room with 2 brick hearths and a chimney, where glue was melted for ink. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho roofed wall at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 17.0 metres long, linking shop and house at a right angle, with a neat east gateway. Registered 1998.

Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 26 square metres, standing alone west of the parlor; boarded walls, 2 tiers of windows. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 55 square metres, with a lean-to, hooded windows and sliding fire doors. Registered in 1998.

Taisho drying house on the west edge of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: boarded below, white plaster and small windows above, where ink dries. Registered 1998.

Early Showa work house at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: where wood ash for drying ink was dried and the sticks were bound in rice straw. Registered in 1998.

Early Taisho parlor at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: fine rooms behind a storehouse face, the only one of its 25 buildings registered as hard to reproduce.

Early Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577, on the passage from the great door: plastered walls, stepped cornice, kuramae porch. Registered 1998.

Early Showa bathhouse for the craftsmen of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 4 washing tubs and 1 rinsing tub in their old layout under a vent roof. Registered 1998.

Early Showa U-shaped block at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: once a mould store, now where ink is polished, with a work rail through one wing. Registered 1998.

Saho Kaikan, the alumni hall of Nara Women's University, a tall timber building of 1928 with a carriage porch and sash windows, stands on the campus in central Nara.

The notice board shelter of Jokyoji on Sanjo-dori in Nara, a small gabled copper-roofed structure of 1933 on a cut-stone base, is carefully detailed throughout.

The gate of Jokyoji on Sanjo-dori in Nara, a late Edo yakuimon gate under a tiled gabled roof, is carved with animals, plants, whorls and clouds on its struts.

A late Edo tool and document store joined to the Shoji main house in Ando, Nara: a 2-ken-square plastered storehouse with a floating tiled roof and double eave band.

Main house of the Shoji family, village officials in Ando, Nara: a late Edo Yamato-mune farmhouse with a shikidai entrance and alcove room, registered 2020.

A rice store of around 1913 across the old village moat from the Shoji compound in Ando, Nara: a large plastered 2-storey building marking the family's expansion.

A mid Meiji building on the Shoji property in Ando, Nara, pairing a reception room with a fine alcove and a walk-through rice barn on the old moat, registered 2020.

A mid Meiji tool store in the north-east corner of the Shoji compound in Ando, Nara, its roof hip-and-gable at one end and gabled at the other, with namako tiles.

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