Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nara

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.

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.

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