Edo
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A single-bay yakuimon gate of 1751-1829 in Osaka's Shitadera-machi temple row, the only building at Choshin-ji to survive the 1945 air raids. Registered in 2008.
A late Edo earthen storehouse on a corner in Izumisano, trapezoidal because its walls follow two streets. A survivor of the shipping town's iroha warehouse rank.
An 1848 earthen-walled storehouse in central Osaka, remodelled in 1941 into the sencha tearoom Dokuraku, with a tiled earth floor and Chinese-patterned window bars.
At the northwest corner of the Fujii estate in Higashiosaka stands a late-Edo tool storehouse, 5.9 metres of earthen wall under formal round-and-flat tile.
The Fujii main gate in Higashiosaka pairs keyaki doors with an attendants' waiting room, joining the Inui-gura storehouse to form one composed street elevation.
Sixty-one metres of tile-capped earthen wall run the eastern edge of the Fujii estate to meet the main gate, pierced only by one modest bracketed side gate.
A 13-square-metre earthen storehouse joined to a merchant house in Hirano, Osaka, registered in 2015 and apparently cut back after an 1895 geomancy reading.
Facing the Koya Kaido at the former Mikkaichi post town, this wide-fronted machiya belonged to the Yagi family, cotton wholesalers turned sake brewers.
This two-storey storehouse turns its gable to the old Koya Kaido: white lime plaster above, charred cedar below, a copper door at each window. Registered 2008.
In the satoyama hills of Nose, the northernmost town in Osaka, this thatched village hall enshrines the Medicine Buddha. Traced to 1555 and registered in 2004.
In Kaizuka's temple town south of Osaka, the Yoshimura family traded oil and money as 'Izumiya.' Their late-Edo clothing storehouse survives by the Kishu Kaido.
This registered merchant house in Kaizuka belonged to an oil and money-exchange family, set apart by guest rooms added on its south side in the late Edo period.
This late-Edo earthen storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka was registered in 2003. Built for a money-changing family, it raises its floor on stone over a buried vault.
The Risai family's main house in Kaizuka's self-governing temple town: a Registered Cultural Property with a stepped gable roof and a possible 17th-century core.
In Kaizuka's old temple town, the Risai family ran an apothecary. Their late-Edo storehouse runs ten bays deep, the south half once stocked with medicinal herbs.
Built in 1807 on a forested hilltop in Shimamoto, Osaka, Wakayama Shrine's main hall carries a forward-curving gable rare in the region, registered in 2018.
Discover the Important Cultural Property katana by master swordsmith Ono Hankei, dedicated to Sumiyoshi Taisha by Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada in 1613. Learn about its history, craftsmanship, and how to visit this sacred treasure in Osaka.
The National Treasure celadon vase 'Bansei', fired at Southern Song China's Longquan kilns, passed from an empress to a Kyoto temple before reaching Izumi, Osaka.
Osaka's Kyou Shooku library holds eleven Song-printed volumes of the Shiji jijie, the oldest Shiji commentary, a National Treasure once owned by Naito Konan.
Printed in Southern Song China in 1139, these 17 National Treasure volumes of the Maoshi zhengyi rest at Kyo-U Library in Osaka with Kanazawa Bunko seals.