Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A late-Meiji living wing at the back of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: earth-plastered walls, a six-mat room, a bath and a toilet.
A small late-Meiji food store beside the kitchen door of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: white-plastered walls, an earth floor and no ceiling.
Mid-Meiji storehouse and bedroom on the western wall of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016; the bedroom matches the guest wing next door.
The Naito family main house in Ikedacho, Nara, built in the early Meiji era, is a gabled farmhouse with six rooms, a stepped roof over the doma and sturdy timber.
The Naito family middle gate in Ikedacho, Nara, built in the early Showa era, is a tiled bracketed gate with cross-braced doors between front yard and garden.
The Naito family courtyard north wall in Ikedacho, Nara, built around 1910, stands on a canal embankment, boarded outside and with exposed posts facing the garden.
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.
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