Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

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.

A small storehouse of about 1933 sits at the rear of a Naramachi plot, hard against the Gangoji boundary. Its trapezoid plan follows the awkward edges of the site.

Built in 1933 for a Nara timber wholesaler as house and office, this registered machiya faces the lane east of Gangoji. Fine figured wood lines its upstairs room.

At Chuguji in Ikaruga, Nara, this late Edo shoin hall has six rooms for receiving noble guests, one raised under a coffered ceiling. Registered 2006. Rarely open.

Tomi Shrine Office, built in 1938 in Nara City, has a porch under a curved gable and a north room with an alcove for the envoy who attended the annual festival.

Tomi Shrine Sacred Food Offering Hall of 1939 in Nara City is a plastered building of 14 square metres for preparing offerings, with one cypress bark door canopy.

Tomi Shrine Purification Pavilion was made in 1939 by rebuilding the old front gate. Open on all sides, it carries the only round and flat tiled roof at the shrine.

Tomi Shrine Worship Hall stands at the foot of the steps in Nara City. Dating from about 1799, it was built with nothing between its posts and no ceiling inside.

Tomi Shrine Main Hall in Nara City joins two kasuga-zukuri halls of 1824 through a shared floor and gutter, its framing painted red with polychrome brackets.

A late-Meiji well shelter by the lane to the gate of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: one bay square, open on two sides, with a curved beam.

Mid-Meiji guest wing of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: a hipped-gable roof on a stone-wall corner, with an alcove room and an eight-mat room.

Mid-Meiji tableware storehouse and six-mat bedroom on the western wall of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016, with a veranda above the drop.

Mid-Meiji rice storehouse and drying barn beside the gatehouse of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016, with a farmhands' room inside the barn.

The 1890 heart of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: a broad two-storey house with nine rooms in three rows and a formal entrance for guests.

Mid-Meiji gatehouse fronting a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: 19 meters of white wall on a stone terrace, with heavy posts and a crossbeam.