Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A small c.1910 two-storey earthen storehouse at the back of the Matsuura estate in Oji, Nara, the only one of its six buildings roofed in hongawara tiles.
A c.1910 single-storey wing behind the main house of the Matsuura estate in Oji, Nara, with plastered walls, tall boarding on its north side and a kuramae room.
A c.1910 gate range in Oji, Nara, running 19 m along the front of the Matsuura estate, with the front gate at its south end and a well and washing place inside.
A small early Showa clay storehouse joined to the Matsumoto main house in Kodera, Nara, its rafters sealed in plaster; registered in 2017 as a model of design.
The street gate of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: an early Showa hipped gate with a gatekeeper's room, double sliding doors and clay walls; registered 2017.
A two-storey clay storehouse of 1930 on a tall stone base in the north plot of the Matsumoto estate, Kodera, Nara; the only one with a firm date. Registered 2017.
A 19 m clay-walled building on the north plot of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, with rice store, work floor and barn in a row under one roof. Registered 2017.
A small early Showa barn in the north plot of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, open on the east, with rough clay walls and an earth floor. Registered 2017.
An early Showa gatehouse on the street side of the Matsumoto estate's north plot in Kodera, Nara: lodge, gate and fence in one plastered wall. Registered 2017.
An early Showa outbuilding east of the Matsumoto main house in Kodera, Nara: two rooms for live-in farmhands and a firewood shed under one roof. Registered 2017.
The largest building of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: an early Showa farmhouse ten bays long with an earth floor and six raised rooms; registered 2017.
The one Meiji-period building of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: a two-storey clay storehouse forming the south edge of the plot, registered in 2017.
A long early Showa clay storehouse on the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, that held tableware for entertaining; five rooms inside and a toilet. Registered 2017.
An early Showa barn on the east side of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: a boarded, plastered fence outside and an open log-post shed inside. Registered 2017.
An early Showa barn on the street side of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara, called the mortar room: half wall with double doors, half open shed. Registered 2017.
Early Showa clay walls closing the south-west corner of the Matsumoto estate in Kodera, Nara: 39 m in all, stepping down at the corner. Registered in 2017.
An early Showa rice storehouse, 7.9 by 5.9 m, at the back of a rice merchant's estate in Naramachi, Nara; its upper floor was removed soon after it was built.
An 1829 townhouse with a low upper floor in Naramachi, Nara, dated by its ridge tag and a benchmark for local machiya. A tearoom operates inside. Registered 2015.
A low single-storey late Edo townhouse at the front of the Matsuyama rice merchant estate in Naramachi, Nara, now a tofu restaurant. Registered in 2015.
An early Showa earth-walled grain store, 6.9 by 4.9 m, behind a Naramachi rice merchant's house in Nara, with nisurigi battens lining its walls. Registered in 2015.
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