Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nara

Taisho drying house on the west edge of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: boarded below, white plaster and small windows above, where ink dries. Registered 1998.

Early Showa work house at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: where wood ash for drying ink was dried and the sticks were bound in rice straw. Registered in 1998.

Early Taisho parlor at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: fine rooms behind a storehouse face, the only one of its 25 buildings registered as hard to reproduce.

Early Taisho storehouse at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577, on the passage from the great door: plastered walls, stepped cornice, kuramae porch. Registered 1998.

Early Showa bathhouse for the craftsmen of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: 4 washing tubs and 1 rinsing tub in their old layout under a vent roof. Registered 1998.

Early Showa U-shaped block at Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: once a mould store, now where ink is polished, with a work rail through one wing. Registered 1998.

Saho Kaikan, the alumni hall of Nara Women's University, a tall timber building of 1928 with a carriage porch and sash windows, stands on the campus in central Nara.

The notice board shelter of Jokyoji on Sanjo-dori in Nara, a small gabled copper-roofed structure of 1933 on a cut-stone base, is carefully detailed throughout.

The gate of Jokyoji on Sanjo-dori in Nara, a late Edo yakuimon gate under a tiled gabled roof, is carved with animals, plants, whorls and clouds on its struts.

A late Edo tool and document store joined to the Shoji main house in Ando, Nara: a 2-ken-square plastered storehouse with a floating tiled roof and double eave band.

Main house of the Shoji family, village officials in Ando, Nara: a late Edo Yamato-mune farmhouse with a shikidai entrance and alcove room, registered 2020.

A rice store of around 1913 across the old village moat from the Shoji compound in Ando, Nara: a large plastered 2-storey building marking the family's expansion.

A mid Meiji building on the Shoji property in Ando, Nara, pairing a reception room with a fine alcove and a walk-through rice barn on the old moat, registered 2020.

A mid Meiji tool store in the north-east corner of the Shoji compound in Ando, Nara, its roof hip-and-gable at one end and gabled at the other, with namako tiles.

A two-storey guest wing of 1899 joined to the Shoji main house in Ando, Nara, with alcove rooms on both floors and a cedar-bark east wall; registered in 2020.

A wooden reception room built around 1951 against a storehouse at Zeitaku Mame Honpo in Nara, with a copper skirt roof, a garden window and a coffered ceiling.

An early Meiji machiya on Nara's Sanjo-dori, cut back one ken when the street was widened, with a low tsushi-nikai upper floor. Registered 2003; now a Lawson store.

An early Meiji storehouse in Nara, eave to eave with its twin, its east wall in namako tiles and its west and rear walls boarded, with a south window upstairs.

An early Meiji storehouse behind the Zeitaku Mame Honpo shop in Nara, its tiles laid on boards set straight on the purlins, with no rafters at all. Registered 2003.

A 1915 two-story clay storehouse at the northwest corner of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, with namako tiles facing the yard and tall boards facing the lane.

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