Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A two-storey guest wing of 1899 joined to the Shoji main house in Ando, Nara, with alcove rooms on both floors and a cedar-bark east wall; registered in 2020.

A wooden reception room built around 1951 against a storehouse at Zeitaku Mame Honpo in Nara, with a copper skirt roof, a garden window and a coffered ceiling.

An early Meiji machiya on Nara's Sanjo-dori, cut back one ken when the street was widened, with a low tsushi-nikai upper floor. Registered 2003; now a Lawson store.

An early Meiji storehouse in Nara, eave to eave with its twin, its east wall in namako tiles and its west and rear walls boarded, with a south window upstairs.

An early Meiji storehouse behind the Zeitaku Mame Honpo shop in Nara, its tiles laid on boards set straight on the purlins, with no rafters at all. Registered 2003.

A 1915 two-story clay storehouse at the northwest corner of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, with namako tiles facing the yard and tall boards facing the lane.

A 1915 rice storehouse on the east side of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, the smallest of three, sharing one long eave with the barn and next rice store.

The only late Edo-period building on the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara: a small storehouse joined to the tea room and corridor, with a detached oki-yane roof.

A 1915 rice storehouse on the south side of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, the largest of three, with a cut-stone base, bold moldings and a deep north eave.

The 1915 main house of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara: a 30-meter-wide, two-story timber house in local farmhouse form, with shoin-style rooms on both floors.

A 1915 charcoal store beside the main house of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara: at 18 square meters the smallest registered building there, with plastered walls.

A 1915 tea room south of the Tatsumi main house in Ikaruga, Nara: a 4.5-mat room with alcove, 3-mat prep room, and a hip-and-gable roof with a plastered west gable.

The 236-meter earthen wall built in 1915 around the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, with a clay finish, molded eaves, tiled coping and a tortoise-shell stone base.

The 1915 gatehouse on the north front of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara: a single-story tiled building with double doors, wickets, side rooms and black plaster.

A 1915 clay-walled work building on the east side of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, built to match the rice stores to its south and share their long eave.

A 1915 storehouse in the northwest of the Tatsumi estate, Ikaruga, Nara: the largest of its six, with an east eave used as a passage and kote-e plaster treasures.

A 1915 rice storehouse in the southeast corner of the Tatsumi estate, Ikaruga, Nara, with a heavy tiled roof, tall wainscots and an east gable rising above the wall.

A 1915 building in the Tatsumi estate, Ikaruga, Nara, linking the main house to the Third Storehouse and tea room: a passage on the west, a storeroom on the east.

The detached guest rooms of the Tamaya inn before Taimadera in Katsuragi, Nara, a late Edo wing joined by a corridor, have a railed veranda and a calm air.

This late Edo townhouse in Naramachi, Nara, keeps its projecting eaves, udatsu fire walls and a large lattice window. Registered in 2012, it still sells Yamato tea.

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