Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Naito family nagayamon gate in Ikedacho, Nara, built in the early Meiji era, has its lintel plastered over and shows a closed, almost windowless front.

The parlor wing of the Nakai Family Residence in Gose, Nara, added in the early Taisho era, holds a 10-mat sukiya-style room with alcove, shelves and built-in desk.

The main house of the Nakai Family Residence in Gose, Nara, built in 1792, faces the street with a black-plastered attic storey, white eaves and open lattice front.

The storehouse of the Nakai Family Residence in Gose, Nara, built in 1916, has white plaster walls, namako tilework, a sheltered loading area and a rice room inside.

Nakagawa Family Residence Storehouse, Nara, 1915: a 12 m by 4.9 m earthen store with a heavy tile roof, plaster band and torii-style door frame, on brick footings.

Nakagawa Family Residence Main House, a 1915 Nara townhouse: lattice shopfront, slatted upper windows, a 2.7 m earthen passage and formal rooms with carved transoms.

Nakagawa Family Residence Annex, an early Showa garden annex in Nara: hipped-and-gabled to the courtyard, gabled behind, with log rafters and grey plaster walls.

Nakagawa Family Residence Brick Wall, Nara, c.1915: a 20 m wall dividing house from textile factory, 15 brick courses in stretcher bond on a granite base.

Nakagawa Family Residence Connecting Corridor, Nara, 1915: an L-shaped corridor glazed with clear windows and frosted transoms, unlike open Naramachi verandas.

The Nanto Bank head office in Nara, a concrete bank of 1926 by Nagano Uheiji with four Ionic columns, is one of the few classical-style buildings in the old capital.

The Nishida Family Residence Stone Wall rings an early Showa estate in Yamatokoriyama for about 160 metres, with dressed corners and tortoise-shell masonry.

The Nishida Family Residence Inner Storehouse links two wings of an early Showa house in Yamatokoriyama and has a floating tiled roof and a namako wall.

The Nishida Family Residence Shrine in Yamatokoriyama is a one-bay early Showa household shrine under a square metre, built with every part of a full sanctuary.

The Nishida Family Residence Main House Central Wing in Yamatokoriyama is a tall early Showa house with a multi-gabled roof and a lacquered Bamboo Room.

The Nishida Family Residence Main House West Wing in Yamatokoriyama is a single-storey early Showa link whose side entrance is framed by two seven-sided windows.

The Nishida Family Residence Main House South Wing in Yamatokoriyama is an early Showa guest wing pairing a formal tatami room with a parquet-ceilinged Western room.

The Nishida Family Residence Storehouse is a two-storey early Showa kura in Yamatokoriyama, attached to the main house, with namako tiles on its south face.

The Nishida Family Residence Worship Pavilion is a four-post early Showa prayer shelter before a household shrine in Yamatokoriyama, with a diamond-lattice transom.

The Nishida Family Residence Detached Room is a tiny early Showa sukiya pavilion in a Yamatokoriyama garden, with a round window and a ceiling of radiating battens.

The main house of the Hamoto family in Yamatokoriyama, Nara, an early Meiji merchant house on the old road, has fine lattices, a fold-down bench and mushiko windows.

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