Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

The Satake Glass Workshop in Izumi, Osaka, is an L-shaped early Showa shed where glass rods are made, its braced posts carrying a king post truss. Registered 2001.

The Satake Glass Office in Izumi, Osaka, is a small early Showa building attached to the main house, its hipped roof aligned with the house. Registered in 2001.

The Satake Glass Main House in Izumi, Osaka, is a 1941 townhouse: white plaster and lattice below, black plaster with patterned mushiko-mado windows above.

The Satake Glass Mixing Factory in Izumi, Osaka, where glass batches were blended, once also housed staff. Plaster and weatherboard wings share a vent roof.

The Satake Glass Shrine, a tiny early Showa guardian shrine at an Izumi glassworks, sits on a stone plinth under a copper roof, with a curved beam and carved strut.

The Satake Glass Melting Plant in Izumi, Osaka, holds the furnace of a working rod factory. A raised vent roof and weatherboarded gable face the street.

Jigan-ji's bell tower in Yao, Osaka, built in 1900, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. This open frame on a cut-stone base hangs its bronze bell from the gable.

Jigan-ji's drum tower in Yao, Osaka, dates to the late Edo period. Its offset upper storey with cusped windows rises above the earthen wall beside the main gate.

Jigan-ji's ablution pavilion in Yao, Osaka, covers barely 12 square metres. Carved details date it to the 1660s, the oldest of the temple's five registered buildings.

Jigan-ji's main hall in Yao, Osaka, rebuilt in 1817, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. This Shinshu hall is 19 metres wide and centres a temple town from 1606.

Jigan-ji's side gate and earthen wall in Yao, Osaka, date to early Meiji. A one-bay gate and a 12-metre tiled wall run north to the main gate, edging a temple town.

Built in 1907 as a court branch office, this earthen-walled storehouse on the old Koya pilgrimage road keeps its register shelving and iron windows. Free entry.

Built in 1938 at a Shingon temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, Jizoji Kuri is a six-room priests' residence with a lesser cuckoo carved above its formal entrance.

Jizoji Sanmon, a single-bay yakuimon gate of 1902 in Kawachinagano, Osaka, is 2.2 metres wide, stands atop a stone stairway, and is usually found closed to visitors.

Jizoji Shokido, a small hall of 1935 at a Shingon temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, was given by the Osaka firm whose camphor mothballs bore the demon-queller Shoki.

Built in 1721 at a Shingon temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, Jizoji Hondo has a pyramidal tiled roof, a coved coffered ceiling and a celestial figure at its altar.

Built in 1674 as the main hall of a branch temple in Mie and moved to Osaka in 1953, this deep hall at Shitennoji Temple is entered through its gable end.

The roofed gallery enclosing the central precinct of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka covers 1116 square metres and still follows the line excavation found beneath it.

At the north end of the walled precinct of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, this 1963 reconstruction divides its sanctuary into a winter hall and a summer hall.

Rebuilt in 1959 to about 37 metres, this steel-and-concrete pagoda at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka has 6 interior levels and a spiral stair visitors can climb.