Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

A small late-Edo townhouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, registered in 2003. It stands on ground 60 cm higher than its 1932 neighbor, yet its low roof sits beneath that house.

Rebuilt in 1877 on the old Kishu Kaido in Izumiotsu, this 10-bay gate flanks its passage with a bedding store and an attendants' room. Private; see it from the road.

An early-Taisho nagaya gate on the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu: a 1-bay service passage beside a barn with earth, tatami and plank floors. Not open to visitors.

Built in 1855 on the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu, this wing pairs a formal shikidai entrance with 10- and 8-mat rooms set at right angles. Not open to visitors.

An early-Meiji rice store between the gate and annex of the Tanaka compound in Hirakata, with plastered eaves and 2 latticed yoriki windows facing the street.

Built in 1887 above the Amano River in Hirakata, this south-facing landowner's house has a plastered front with mushiko windows and a heavily framed earthen floor.

The mid-Edo main house of the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu, a Kii-domain rest stop, spans 11 and a half by 7 bays around a vast earthen floor. Not open to visitors.

An 1872 farmhouse in Matsubara with a doma filling half its length, four rooms in a grid, and an accounting counter before the altar room. Still lived in; not open.

A headman-class farmhouse in Matsubara recorded as built in 1709, retiled with an attic added in the Tenpo era, and relocated in 2007. Still lived in; not open.

This 47-metre early-Showa wall of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara faces the Takami Shrine approach, its plaster pierced with oval and oblong lattice-style openings.

A mid-Meiji garden gate 1.4 m wide in the Tanaka compound in Hirakata, with strongly curved rafters and red posts, dividing the front yard from the main garden.

This late-Edo wall runs north from the Tanaka front gate along the old Kishu Kaido in Izumiotsu: 2.3 m high, 65 cm thick at the base, with an inuyarai guard below.

Built in 1875, the oldest of the Tanaka buildings in Hirakata is a two-storey storehouse with stone footings, white plaster and a plaster band under its eaves.

A small early-Showa storehouse on the west edge of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with a floating tiled roof and plaster walls. Visible from the street.

An early-Meiji gatehouse on the Tanaka compound in Hirakata, with a plastered mushiko-window front and a roof that is gabled at one end and hipped at the other.

An early-Showa gatehouse on the north side of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with a 2-bay gateway and a roof that differs at each end. Seen from the road.

A Bunsei-era gatehouse in Matsubara, moved in 2007: 11 m by 4.0 m under a tiled hip-and-gable roof, with a lattice and yoriki windows. Seen from the street.

A reception room of about 1907 in the Tanaka compound in Hirakata: plastered walls matching its neighbours face the street, while a 6-mat room opens onto the garden.

An early-Showa annex in the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with 8- and 6-mat guest rooms at one end and a barn, bath and pickling shed under a lower roof.

Built in 1823 on the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu, this small earthen granary held grain against famine for the village under a detached roof. Not open to visitors.

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