Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

An early Meiji yakuimon gate of former village headmen in Hannan, Osaka, set behind a forecourt, with copper-edged eaves. Registered 2005. Seen from the road.

An 1889 main house of former village headmen in Hannan, Osaka, with a formal entrance, reception wing and kitchen wing. Registered 2005. Private home.

A late Edo earthen storehouse behind the kitchen wing of the Minami estate in Hannan, Osaka, joined to it by a work space. Registered 2005. Private, not open.

A two-story earthen storehouse of about 1921 on the corner of the Minami estate in Hannan, Osaka, once a rice store for sake brewing. Registered 2005; street view.

An early Meiji clay wall, 77 m in all, on a stone base with a tiled cap, along the south side of the Minami estate in Hannan, Osaka. Registered 2005; street view.

A late Edo work shed in the kaito farm yard of the Minami estate in Hannan, Osaka, with a tiled gable roof and a wraparound lean-to. Registered 2005. Private.

The 1930 lattice fence around the main hall of Miyukimori Tenjingu Shrine, Osaka: 32 meters on a stone base, with slatted windows, bracket arms and chamfered posts.

The 1930 worship hall of Miyukimori Tenjingu Shrine, Osaka, on a rounded kamebara base with a curved karahafu porch, a fine example of Kamakura-revival design.

The 1930 offering hall linking the worship hall and main hall at Miyukimori Tenjingu Shrine, Osaka: two bays, diamond-lattice windows and two tiers of beams.

The 1930 main hall of Miyukimori Tenjingu Shrine, Osaka: a three-bay nagare-zukuri with daibutsuyo bracket profiles, its floor raised to show above the fence.

The stone retaining wall of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, a 19-meter dry-laid wall of rounded fieldstones that curves along a steep road and rises to about five meters.

The kitchen wing of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, its smallest registered building at about 12 square meters, with a well and sink on a fully stone-paved floor.

The north and east walls of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, a roofed boundary wall of about 25 meters from 1912, with black plaster, red posts and accent ridge tiles.

The thatched main house of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, built in 1912, its working doma fronting formal rooms of fine craftsmanship, listed as hard to reproduce.

Storehouse 1 of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, a tall 1912 dozo at the northwest corner, white plaster above charred cedar boarding giving it a striking street presence.

Storehouse 2 of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, a small 1912 dozo joined to the larger corner store, its cornice molding marking careful work despite a modest size.

The barn of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, the oldest of its eight registered structures, built in 1905, its plastered walls and bracketed eaves facing the entrance path.

The west wall of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, an 11-meter roofed wall of 1912 set on the stone base, its height shifting with the slope to keep the top line level.

Fujii Koji designed this Korien house in 1930 for an Osaka textile merchant. It retains its ventilation flues, chair-height rooms and original furniture.

Only ten square metres, this storehouse was rebuilt in fire-resistant earthen-wall construction in 1941, in preparation for war. Its bracing records the period.