Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nara

Tomi Shrine Worship Hall stands at the foot of the steps in Nara City. Dating from about 1799, it was built with nothing between its posts and no ceiling inside.

Tomi Shrine Main Hall in Nara City joins two kasuga-zukuri halls of 1824 through a shared floor and gutter, its framing painted red with polychrome brackets.

A late-Meiji well shelter by the lane to the gate of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: one bay square, open on two sides, with a curved beam.

Mid-Meiji guest wing of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: a hipped-gable roof on a stone-wall corner, with an alcove room and an eight-mat room.

Mid-Meiji tableware storehouse and six-mat bedroom on the western wall of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016, with a veranda above the drop.

Mid-Meiji rice storehouse and drying barn beside the gatehouse of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016, with a farmhands' room inside the barn.

The 1890 heart of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: a broad two-storey house with nine rooms in three rows and a formal entrance for guests.

Mid-Meiji gatehouse fronting a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: 19 meters of white wall on a stone terrace, with heavy posts and a crossbeam.

A late-Meiji living wing at the back of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: earth-plastered walls, a six-mat room, a bath and a toilet.

A small late-Meiji food store beside the kitchen door of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: white-plastered walls, an earth floor and no ceiling.

Mid-Meiji storehouse and bedroom on the western wall of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016; the bedroom matches the guest wing next door.

The Naito family main house in Ikedacho, Nara, built in the early Meiji era, is a gabled farmhouse with six rooms, a stepped roof over the doma and sturdy timber.

The Naito family middle gate in Ikedacho, Nara, built in the early Showa era, is a tiled bracketed gate with cross-braced doors between front yard and garden.

The Naito family courtyard north wall in Ikedacho, Nara, built around 1910, stands on a canal embankment, boarded outside and with exposed posts facing the garden.

The Naito family nagayamon gate in Ikedacho, Nara, built in the early Meiji era, has its lintel plastered over and shows a closed, almost windowless front.

The parlor wing of the Nakai Family Residence in Gose, Nara, added in the early Taisho era, holds a 10-mat sukiya-style room with alcove, shelves and built-in desk.

The main house of the Nakai Family Residence in Gose, Nara, built in 1792, faces the street with a black-plastered attic storey, white eaves and open lattice front.

The storehouse of the Nakai Family Residence in Gose, Nara, built in 1916, has white plaster walls, namako tilework, a sheltered loading area and a rice room inside.

Nakagawa Family Residence Storehouse, Nara, 1915: a 12 m by 4.9 m earthen store with a heavy tile roof, plaster band and torii-style door frame, on brick footings.

Nakagawa Family Residence Main House, a 1915 Nara townhouse: lattice shopfront, slatted upper windows, a 2.7 m earthen passage and formal rooms with carved transoms.

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