Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Mizugaki Gate is a late Edo four-legged gate behind the First Sanctuary in Osaka, traditional in form but carved with thick, bold lines.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Side Approach Kaku Torii is a 1919 square-pillared stone torii in Osaka; with its northern twin it flanks the shrine's West Great Torii.

A 1936 reinforced-concrete church in Osaka's Juso, designed by the Vories office to replace one lost to the Muroto Typhoon. Rose window, belfry, free entry.

The late-Edo priests' wing of a tiny urban temple in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002. A townhouse lattice window marks the terakoya where Kawaguchi Ekai studied.

A late-Edo Buddhist hall of just 24 square metres in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002. Its palace-form shrine cabinet marks a rare urban Shugendo survival.

A late-Edo gate only 1.7 metres wide in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002 as a model of design for the way its curved rafters and low walls order the street.

Antonin Raymond designed this concrete school in Neyagawa, finished in 1932 and registered in 1997. An early Japanese finger plan, with a Spanish colonnade.

A 1925 office and residential building in Semba, Osaka, registered in 2000, with a full-height patio courtyard ringed by galleries; now a popular tenant building.

Part of the 1928 banquet pavilion for Emperor Showa's enthronement, moved to Suita and now a Jodo Shinshu hall. Black-lacquered coved ceiling, period chandeliers.

A two-storey 1952 storehouse east of the Yamamoto main house in Taishi, Osaka, with board skirting, white plaster and bracketed drip tiles. Registered in 2003.

A late Edo farmhouse on the Takenouchi Kaido in Taishi, Osaka, under a yamatomune roof of thatch flanked by tiles, repaired and reopened in 2004. Registered in 2002.

A 1912 reception wing on the Yamamoto estate in Taishi, Osaka: hip-and-gable tiled roof, eight-mat shoin room with alcove, shelves and writing bay. Registered 2002.

Taiyoshi Hyakuban, a Taisho-era building on a corner of Osaka's old Tobita quarter, has a karahafu entrance and themed rooms, one modelled on the Yomeimon gate.

The Takahashi Family Residence in Minoh, Osaka, a timber Western house of 1919 by the Minoh River, is a fine example of the guest houses of large Taisho-era homes.

A 41-meter reinforced concrete wall of 1938 enclosing the Nagi Shrine sanctuary, plastered with posts and beams and climbing the slope under specially shaped tiles.

Built in 1940 for the shrine to Kusunoki Masashige, this worship hall raises only its central porch bay under a karahafu gable, with an offering hall set behind.

The 1938 Kasuga-style sanctuary of Nagi Shrine, honoring Kusunoki Masashige: unpainted cypress, broad stairs, a kikusui crest on the ridge, and how to view it.

Built around 1920 with public donations to display relics of Kusunoki Masashige, this plastered storehouse has four daylight windows on each side and central cases.

A late-Edo house in Kaizuka's old temple town, registered in 2003. Its closed seven-bay front and a stout window facing Gansenji suggest a samurai or official.

A townhouse of about 1932 built by a boxwood comb-making family in Kaizuka, Osaka, registered in 2003. A tall plastered front rises over a traditional floor plan.

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