Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

A 1937 waiting shelter in the outer roji of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound, where guests sat before Chosentei, copying the Omotesenke layout.

A 1937 well curb of four granite stones, about 70 cm square, in the outer roji of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound; a dry copy of an Omotesenke well.

A tiny 1937 waiting bench with a privy in the inner roji of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound, where guests bound for the tea room Soan sat.

A 1937 gate 1.0 m wide between the outer and inner gardens of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound, with log posts and bamboo lattice doors.

The 1937 entrance wing of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound: a copper-trimmed tile gable, a canopied gable-end door and a bamboo-slat step-in.

A small 1941 tea room at the foot of the arched bridge in the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art garden, with a stepped roof, copper canopy and upright guest entrance.

The 1937 front gate of the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound: a 2.1 m bracket-armed gate with cypress-bark eaves, lattice doors and a log lintel.

A tiny 1937 tea room at the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art copying Omotesenke's Fushin-an: crawl-in entrance, skylight and a bent central post. Closed to visitors.

A 1937 ten-mat tea room at the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art copying Omotesenke's Zangetsu-tei down to its measurements. Open on Sundays; photos allowed, no tripods.

A 1937 wall-like garden gate 2.7 m long in the Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art tea compound, with a low sliding doorway and a lath window, copied from Zangetsu-tei.

The street front of a Taisho villa in Tezukayama, Osaka: a bracket-arm gate topped by a tall tiled wall, lattice doors before board doors, and a 15-metre wall.

A late-Taisho villa in Tezukayama, Osaka, built for a Senba merchant. Japanese rooms below, a Western room with mantelpiece, sash windows and arched veranda above.

A rustic garden gate at a Taisho villa in Tezukayama, Osaka, built of knotted logs and bark-on cherry under a cedar-bark soffit, with a tiny waiting arbor beside it.

A late-Taisho storehouse closing a lane in Tezukayama, Osaka: plaster to the eaves, an armoured window hood, iron doors with a family crest, and a flamenco studio.

A light bracket-arm gate into the south garden of a Taisho villa in Tezukayama, Osaka, with bark-on log posts, an adze-rippled beam and panelled doors under iron.

Gazoku-sanso, the 1937 Ikeda home of Hankyu founder Kobayashi Ichizo, blends Spanish tiles and Tatsuyama stone. It is now the Kobayashi Ichizo Memorial Hall.

The nagayamon at the entrance to Kobayashi Ichizo's Ikeda villa is a late-Edo long-house gate, said to have been relocated here in 1936 from a village headman's estate.

A 47-metre reinforced-concrete wall around Kobayashi Ichizo's Ikeda villa, topped with the same tiles as the house so the boundary reads as part of the design.

Conceived by Kobayashi Ichizo, Sokuan rings a three-and-a-half-mat daime room with chair seating so guests take tea at the same eye level as on the tatami.

A tiny two-mat tea room in Kobayashi Ichizo's south garden, with a crawl-in entrance and a cusped window, said to be named by former premier Konoe Fumimaro.

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