Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

This late Edo gatehouse in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, stretches 10 ken behind a sunken forecourt. Its east end turns north into a storehouse and a side door.

Attached to the kitchen of a Matsubara headman's farmhouse, this late Edo two-story storehouse is the estate's largest and opens an inner store onto the kitchen.

On a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo rice store stands on short posts so air can pass under the floor, and its walls stop at an earthen intermediate coat.

Built in 1805 for a family of village headmen in Matsubara, Osaka, this 439-square-meter farmhouse has a smoke roof over its earthen kitchen and an 1830 guest wing.

At the end of a row of storehouses on a Matsubara headman's estate, this early Meiji store kept the household's ceramics on shelves along all four walls.

Running 18 bays along the north edge of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo shed held firewood and a water wheel; its long earthen wall is visible outside.

Facing the road at the corner of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo gatehouse has an attendants' room, a storeroom and a hip-and-gable roof of heavy tiles.

On a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo storehouse was set aside for imported goods such as sugar. Its roof rests on two beams of naturally curved timber.

Joined to the gate of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo tool storehouse shows a white wall and two upper windows to the road under a detached tiled roof.

Leaning on a storehouse wall on a Matsubara headman's estate, this 8-square-meter servants' rest room keeps a small roof that once led to a vanished storehouse.

Following a stone-lined water channel around a Matsubara headman's estate, this 57-meter tiled wall changes its outer finish from black plaster to boards and earth.

On the north edge of a Matsubara headman's estate, this Meiji gate and archive storehouse shows black plaster and salvaged boat planks to the street under one roof.

This late Edo bath building on a Matsubara headman's estate uses polished logs and open roof framing, with a shoji-lit dressing room and a hot-water doorway.

This small Edo-period guest lodge on a Matsubara headman's estate is where the family is said to have hosted the Osaka poet Hirose Kyokuso and loyalist activists.

A Taisho-era one-bay gate at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, set back from the street wall and leading guests across a forecourt to the annex.

The largest building at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka: a Taisho-era brewhouse 12 bays long whose raking and tie beams open up a long brewing floor.

A Taisho-era brewhouse at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka, clad to the eaves in charred boards and standing eave to eave with its neighbour on a back lane.

A Taisho-era brewhouse 16 bays long at the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka, its charred-board gable facing the street and its roof on beams set every two bays.

The 1916 shop and home of the Naniwa Shuzo brewery in Hannan, Osaka: an 11-bay townhouse whose low upper floor and slatted mushiko windows hide modern living rooms.

A Taisho-era storehouse at the Naniwa Shuzo brewers' home in Hannan, Osaka, its sides plastered to mimic clapboards and its gable front set with namako-kabe tiles.