Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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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.
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.
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