Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Early Taisho office of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577, joined to the shop: a great door, a lattice-fronted office and a bay now a garage. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho main house of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a refined 2-storey home behind the shop, its plastered north gable lining the lane. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho wall at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 9.5 metres of plaster and tall boarding on the north lane, made as one with the gables nearby. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: two linked earthen wings used as one space for finished ink, beside the finishing room. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho building at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a staff dining and changing room below a loft once used to dry ink sticks in wood ash. Registered 1998.

Early Showa room at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a tall 15-square-metre building where guests were received and later shown how ink is made. Registered 1998.

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.