Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nara

A 1915 rice storehouse on the east side of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, the smallest of three, sharing one long eave with the barn and next rice store.

The only late Edo-period building on the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara: a small storehouse joined to the tea room and corridor, with a detached oki-yane roof.

A 1915 rice storehouse on the south side of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, the largest of three, with a cut-stone base, bold moldings and a deep north eave.

The 1915 main house of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara: a 30-meter-wide, two-story timber house in local farmhouse form, with shoin-style rooms on both floors.

A 1915 charcoal store beside the main house of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara: at 18 square meters the smallest registered building there, with plastered walls.

A 1915 tea room south of the Tatsumi main house in Ikaruga, Nara: a 4.5-mat room with alcove, 3-mat prep room, and a hip-and-gable roof with a plastered west gable.

The 236-meter earthen wall built in 1915 around the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, with a clay finish, molded eaves, tiled coping and a tortoise-shell stone base.

The 1915 gatehouse on the north front of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara: a single-story tiled building with double doors, wickets, side rooms and black plaster.

A 1915 clay-walled work building on the east side of the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara, built to match the rice stores to its south and share their long eave.

A 1915 storehouse in the northwest of the Tatsumi estate, Ikaruga, Nara: the largest of its six, with an east eave used as a passage and kote-e plaster treasures.

A 1915 rice storehouse in the southeast corner of the Tatsumi estate, Ikaruga, Nara, with a heavy tiled roof, tall wainscots and an east gable rising above the wall.

A 1915 building in the Tatsumi estate, Ikaruga, Nara, linking the main house to the Third Storehouse and tea room: a passage on the west, a storeroom on the east.

The detached guest rooms of the Tamaya inn before Taimadera in Katsuragi, Nara, a late Edo wing joined by a corridor, have a railed veranda and a calm air.

This late Edo townhouse in Naramachi, Nara, keeps its projecting eaves, udatsu fire walls and a large lattice window. Registered in 2012, it still sells Yamato tea.

A small storehouse of about 1933 sits at the rear of a Naramachi plot, hard against the Gangoji boundary. Its trapezoid plan follows the awkward edges of the site.

Built in 1933 for a Nara timber wholesaler as house and office, this registered machiya faces the lane east of Gangoji. Fine figured wood lines its upstairs room.

At Chuguji in Ikaruga, Nara, this late Edo shoin hall has six rooms for receiving noble guests, one raised under a coffered ceiling. Registered 2006. Rarely open.

Tomi Shrine Office, built in 1938 in Nara City, has a porch under a curved gable and a north room with an alcove for the envoy who attended the annual festival.

Tomi Shrine Sacred Food Offering Hall of 1939 in Nara City is a plastered building of 14 square metres for preparing offerings, with one cypress bark door canopy.

Tomi Shrine Purification Pavilion was made in 1939 by rebuilding the old front gate. Open on all sides, it carries the only round and flat tiled roof at the shrine.

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