Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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An early Showa corridor behind a Naramachi townhouse in Nara, its 6 m log beam hung from the eaves so no posts block the courtyard. Registered in 2015.
An 1891 valuables store and earthen wall at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, plastered to the eaves under a separate roof and older than the brewery buildings.
The early Taisho-era home of a Kashihara vinegar brewer in Nara: a 228 square metre farmhouse plan with a formal shikidai entrance and heavy through-columns.
A mid-Meiji vinegar hall at a Kashihara brewery in Nara, where the Onishi family's vinegar began and where cedar vats 2.5 metres across still hold maturing vinegar.
An early Taisho koji room at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, a wooden chamber nested in an earthen store, with a wall around a plot in the kimon direction.
An early Taisho rice-washing house at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, its plan stepping in around a well on the north side, now used as a storeroom.
An early Taisho filling house at the centre of a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, with a small attendant's room, now used to brew the sake that becomes vinegar.
An early Taisho earthen store said to have held miso, on the northeast corner of a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, with charred cedar skirting facing the street.
A long early Taisho rice store at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, converted from a gate building on an old boundary wall, still keeping its central passage.
A late Meiji brewery store in Kashihara, Nara, once the mash-pressing room of a vinegar maker, linking the North and South Storehouses in one continuous interior.
An early Taisho pressing hall at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara, with a sakabune vat for pressing mash, a thick-walled materials store and a shared interior.
Two early Taisho gates at a Kashihara vinegar brewery in Nara: a street nagayamon with lattice window and glass doors, and an inner gate with an osa-ranma transom.
The Minami Family Residence Main House in Gose, Nara, is a yamato-mune farmhouse of 1751-1830 with a steel-sheathed thatched roof and six rooms in two rows.
The Minami Family Residence Tool Storehouse in Gose, Nara, is a two-storey kura of 1830-1868 whose white plaster walls run up into the eaves on the east edge.
The Minami Family Residence Annex Reception Wing in Gose, Nara, is a guest annex of 1830-1868 with connecting tatami rooms, an alcove and a cusped-window desk niche.
The Minami Family Residence Wooden Fence in Gose, Nara, is a 24-meter roofed wall of 1912 on a cut-stone base, with bracketed eaves and street-side boarding.
The Minami Family Residence Gatehouse and Garden Gate in Gose, Nara, is a 1912 nagayamon with storerooms beside the gateway and a sliding gate in a short wall.
The Yamada Liquor Store inner storehouse dates from 1812 like the main house and was moved intact by hikiya in the Taisho period. Plastered walls and barred windows.
The Yamada Liquor Store teahouse zashiki is a Taisho sukiya-style guest wing hipped at one end and gabled at the other, open to the garden on both floors.
Built in 1812 after a river flood, the Yamada Liquor Store main house keeps its shop front on the Hasedera approach, with living rooms behind and two garden rooms.
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