Important Cultural Property of Osaka

At Kumata Shrine in Osaka's Hirano district, the central Second Hall is a three-bay nagare-zukuri building of 1513, among the city's oldest, dated by its ridge tags.

22 buildings dating from 1606 to the mid-Edo period at Amanosan Kongoji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, from the Gobutsudo to the guardian shrine, designated in 2019.

Built in 1320 at Amanosan Kongoji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, this 7-bay main hall replaced a smaller hall of 1178 and was restored in 1605, 1700 and from 2009 to 2017.

An early Muromachi refectory at Amanosan Kongoji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, used by Emperor Go-Murakami as a temporary palace from 1354, entered under a cusped gable.

An early Muromachi bell tower northeast of the main hall at Amanosan Kongoji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, its lower level wrapped in a flared hakamagoshi skirt.

A late Heian two-storey pagoda south of the main hall at Amanosan Kongoji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, with a shingle roof and a painted first storey holding a Dainichi.

A 1606 hall at Amanosan Kongoji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, enshrining a portrait of Kobo Daishi, with a pyramidal bark roof and an attached moon-viewing pavilion.

A late Kamakura gate at the entrance to the central compound of Amanosan Kongoji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, housing two guardian kings, with a 1938 marker in front.

The golden hall of Jigenin in Izumisano, Osaka, a three-bay hall of the late Kamakura period, survived with the National Treasure pagoda when the temple burned.

Six buildings of 1623 at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka survived the 1945 air raids and were designated together in 1954 as the only early Edo fabric on the grounds.

Raised in 1294 outside the west gate of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, this stone torii is the oldest structure on the grounds and faces due west to the setting sun.

The pagoda of Shoman-in, the Aizen Hall in Tennoji, Osaka, a tahoto of 1597 said to be a gift of Hideyoshi, holds a three-dimensional mandala; entry is free.

The former Sugiyama house in Tondabayashi, Osaka, home of a founding family later famous for sake, is the oldest townhouse of the temple town, early Edo in date.

The Senpukan in Osaka, built in 1871 as the government mint's reception house and designed by Thomas Waters, is a veranda-wrapped brick building open each March.

The guardian Tenmangu shrine of Sofukuji in Izumisano, Osaka, built about 1576, is a small kasuga-style hall, a forerunner of early modern shrine architecture.

The stone portico of the Osaka Mint foundry, built in 1871 and moved in 1934 to front a memorial hall beside the Senpukan, is an Important Cultural Property.

The main hall of Daianji in Sakai, Osaka, a shoin-style building of the early Edo period rebuilt here in 1683, keeps Kano school wall paintings in its rooms.

The tahoto pagoda of Daiitokuji in Kishiwada, Osaka, built in 1515, is a delicate late Muromachi pagoda unusually placed behind the temple's main hall.

A mid-Muromachi sanctuary of three cypress-bark halls, one kasuga-zukuri and two nagare-zukuri, linked by corridors and designated in 1900; closed beyond the haiden.

Built in 1541, the main hall of Tajihayahime Shrine in Sakai carries carved struts and openwork brackets, among them a praying mantis on a banana plant.

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