Important Cultural Property of Nara

The Kikuya Family Residence in Tsukigase, Nara, is a small thatched farmhouse built around 1700, preserving a three-room plan once common across the Kinai region.

Kikō-ji's main hall in Nara, said to have modeled Tōdai-ji's Great Buddha Hall, is a tiered Muromachi rebuilding of 1544 housing a late-Heian seated Amida triad.

The Kitamuroin Front Gate, a late Muromachi bark-roofed hira-karamon of a Horyuji sub-temple, is older than the Saionin Karamon and stands with the hall it guards.

The Kitamuroin Main Hall, built in 1494 in a Horyuji sub-temple, is a small square hall with a cypress-bark roof, one of a series of dated small halls at the temple.

Dated 1463 by an inscription on its central pillar, Kichiden-ji's tahoto in Ikaruga is Nara's oldest surviving two-storied pagoda, with a hidden Dainichi inside.

Kudaraji's three-storied pagoda rises above rice fields in Koryo Town, Nara. Its late Kamakura design, 1675 finial, disputed founding legend, and how to get inside.

Dated to 1607 by its ridge tablet, the Kuriyama Family Residence in Gojo City is Japan's oldest dwelling of documented date. On its roof, plan, framing and street.

The main hall of Koizumi Shrine in Yamatokoriyama, Nara, is a one-bay kasuga-style hall of the late Muromachi period, under cypress bark, protected since 1920.

Dated to the Kanbun era and designated in 1973, this cypress-bark hall at Konbu-in convent in Nara follows a Zen abbot's-quarters plan and holds Edo-period panels.

The Saionin Agetsuchimon Gate, early Edo, opens off the approach to Horyuji's Middle Gate beside the Karamon. What an earth-topped gate is, and why this has bark.

The Saionin Guest Hall, a Momoyama-period reception hall in a Horyuji sub-temple, is listed as a residence, its cedar-bark roof hip-and-gabled north, gabled south.

Head temple of the Shingon Risshū sect, rebuilt 1798–1808 with all-timber plank walls — a rare construction earning Important Cultural Property status in 1998.

A tiny one-bay hall of 1266 at Shin-Yakushiji in Nara, designated in 1917, with a tiled hip-and-gable roof turned gable-first to the front and three statues inside.

An early Kamakura belfry at Shin-Yakushiji, designated in 1898, whose lower storey is wrapped in a flared white-plaster skirt and whose bell is from the Tenpyo era.

The late Kamakura four-legged front gate of Shin-Yakushiji, designated in 1901, with a rough stone base and broad chamfered posts that look older than they are.

An early Kamakura two-post gate at Shin-Yakushiji in Nara, protected since 1917, whose split post heads hold flat board brackets in a rare early carpentry technique.

The Sogenji Temple Four-Legged Gate (Kangakuin Front Gate), built in 1237, is an early Kamakura sub-temple gate at Horyuji, dated to the year of the east cloister.

A Jodo sub-temple at the west end of Taimadera, Nara: its Main Hall of 1604, Hojo of 1612 and Bell Tower Gate of 1647 became Important Cultural Properties in 1989.

Taimadera's lecture hall in Nara, burned in 1180 and rebuilt in 1303: a long seven-bay hipped hall of the late Kamakura period that shelters Heian Buddhist statues.

Home of Taimadera's first main image, a 7th-century Miroku, this five-bay hip-and-gable hall was rebuilt in the early Kamakura period after 1180 and listed in 1899.