Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nara

A 1923 gatehouse row by the gate of the Kokawa house in Nara, once servants' rooms and a barn, with white plaster walls and a latticed bay window to the street.

Meiji storehouse in the northwest corner of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: the oldest of its 25 registered buildings, now holding the ink moulds. Registered 1998.

Taisho wall at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 14.3 metres on the north lane, with a plaster cornice; storehouse eaves behind form a second line. Registered 1998.

Kettle house of about 1926 at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a tall gabled room with an earth floor and a cut-stone well in its one open corner. Registered in 1998.

Taisho drying house at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a long plastered building on the north lane where ink dries, with round windows for air. Registered 1998.

Building of about 1926 at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: once rooms for live-in staff, now a changing room, extended twice around a 2-storey core. Registered 1998.

Early Showa workshop at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a tall single-storey room where kneaded glue and soot are weighed and pressed into moulds. Registered in 1998.

Early Taisho workshop at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a long building, once the office, where finished ink is packed, on the south edge. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho office of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577, joined to the shop: a great door, a lattice-fronted office and a bay now a garage. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho main house of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a refined 2-storey home behind the shop, its plastered north gable lining the lane. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho wall at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 9.5 metres of plaster and tall boarding on the north lane, made as one with the gables nearby. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: two linked earthen wings used as one space for finished ink, beside the finishing room. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho building at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a staff dining and changing room below a loft once used to dry ink sticks in wood ash. Registered 1998.

Early Showa room at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a tall 15-square-metre building where guests were received and later shown how ink is made. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho kitchen at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: a wing of the main house where the craftsmen ate, dividing the street side from the works. Registered 1998.

Street-front shop of Kobaien, Nara sumi ink maker since 1577: an early Taisho building with black plaster walls, a large signboard and deep eaves. Open on weekdays.

Early Showa glue house at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: an earth-floored room with 2 brick hearths and a chimney, where glue was melted for ink. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho roofed wall at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 17.0 metres long, linking shop and house at a right angle, with a neat east gateway. Registered 1998.

Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 26 square metres, standing alone west of the parlor; boarded walls, 2 tiers of windows. Registered 1998.

Early Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 55 square metres, with a lean-to, hooded windows and sliding fire doors. Registered in 1998.

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