Meiji
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An 1874 two-storey storehouse at the corner of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, kept low to follow the gate, with a stone base and curved beams inside. Private.
A small, tall 1890 storehouse at the back corner of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, on a high stone base with boat-board walls, linked to the main house. Private.
A 21 m roofed wall of about 1890 at the back of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, with bracketed eaves, boat-board cladding and plaster bands. Private property.
An early-Meiji gate and wall in Toyonaka, Osaka, dividing forecourt from guest garden: a sukiya-style gate with log frames and cedar-bark walls. Registered 2008.
Jozenji Temple Front Gate in Izumisano is an early-Meiji four-legged gate packed with plant and zodiac carvings, registered in 2008 as hard to reproduce today.
Discover Locomotive No. 233 in Kyoto: Japan's oldest surviving domestically mass-produced steam locomotive, built in 1903–1904 and designated an Important Cultural Property in 2016. A milestone of Meiji-era industrial heritage at Kyoto Railway Museum.
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.
The Tobiseiji Hanaike at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, is a National Treasure regarded as the finest surviving example of Chinese Yuan-dynasty Longquan celadon with iron-spot decoration. Standing 27.3 cm tall in the elegant yuhuchun form, twenty-one iron spots dance across its jade-green glaze. Discover this masterpiece treasured in Japan for centuries through the Konoike merchants and the famed Ataka Collection.
A herdboy rides his ox home through falling snow in Li Di's Returning Herd in Snow, a Southern Song National Treasure kept at Nara's Yamato Bunkakan museum.