Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

The Kobayashi newspaper shop in Hirano, Osaka, a concrete shop of 1929 with a timber house behind, fronts its arcade with pilasters and arched windows.

Late Edo building on the west street of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: retirement rooms, a stable and a side gate, with two different roof ends.

Late Edo storehouse for household goods on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: tall, two storeys, no ornament, with rafters sealed in white plaster.

Late Edo guest wing of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: a formal alcove built with slim timbers and low ceilings, and landscapes by Kaneko Sesso.

Late Edo main house of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: earthen work floor, six rooms, slatted windows hiding a full upper floor, layered tiled roofs.

Late Edo storehouse at the corner of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: only 21 square meters, but with eaves and gable edges sealed in continuous plaster.

Late Edo walls of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: 105 meters in all, sealed in plaster around the garden, with an exposed frame at one corner.

Late Edo link building on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: two storeys at one end, one at the other, built to the standard of the main house.

Late Edo barn on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: a deep canopy on bracket arms and three rooms that held pickles, brushwood and farm tools.

Early Showa annex of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: a three-mat room with verandas on three sides and a bath, the smallest of ten buildings.

Late Edo nagayamon gatehouse of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: hip-and-gable tiled roof, black plaster street front and a row of lattice windows.

A 1935 wooden hall in Osaka's Edobori, pairing temple carpentry with the Konkokyo faith—a Sect Shinto founded 1859. Designed by Ikedaya Hisakichi; spared from wartime fires.

A mid-Edo earthen wall running 103 metres along the Amano River at Kongoji, Kawachinagano. Plastered on a stone base, it once enclosed the east-bank sub-temples.

A 1942 lecture hall, also called the Shuyokan, on the east bank of the Amano River at Kongoji, Kawachinagano. Trusses span a bright 12-bay room lit by tall windows.

A 1942 dining hall built with Kongoji's Great Lecture Hall in Kawachinagano. A corridor fronts its dining room, kitchen and stores; only the dining room is coffered.

A 1941 covered timber bridge linking Kongoji's main halls and guardian shrine in Kawachinagano. Its roof stands on separate posts; closed for repairs to March 2027.

A 1913 thatched hall in Kongoji's Honbo garden, Kawachinagano, on a site tied to three Northern Court emperors. Six rooms ring an 18-mat room; only one is coffered.

A late Meiji gate at Kongoji's Honbo in Kawachinagano, moved here when the sub-temples merged. Heavy posts and beams under a tiled gable mark the Honbo's rank.

A mid-Edo former kitchen hall of the sub-temple Chuin in Kongoji's Honbo, Kawachinagano. It faces the garden, with three 8-mat rooms and a broad veranda.

A mid-Edo chapel from the sub-temple Chuin, now in Kongoji's Honbo garden in Kawachinagano. Three bays square, it has a pyramidal copper roof and a rear altar bay.

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