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In Fukae, Osaka, the former Koda residence's 1935 main house sets a farmhouse ground floor beneath a modern upper floor, and alone of the four is cited as a design model.

In Fukae, Osaka, the former Koda residence's storehouse is an earthen barn with its floor set in three tiers against floods, a raised central ridge hiding a half-floor.

The largest Fujii outbuilding, this early-Showa parlour pairs an eight-mat room with glazed screens and an alcove pierced by an Oribe window from the tea room.

Discover the Midō Building, a 1965 masterpiece by Takenaka Corporation on Osaka's prestigious Midosuji boulevard. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2024, this landmark showcases Arita-ware tile facades, innovative center-core design, and timeless urban elegance.

Completed in 1934 and designed by architect Yabe Matakichi, the former Kawasaki Savings Bank Fukushima Branch features a distinctive curved facade with Ionic giant-order columns. Now a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, it serves as the headquarters of Minami Corporation in Osaka's Fukushima district.

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.

Thirteen square metres holding one room of four and a half mats, this outbuilding housed the Yagi family's live-in groom. Its south door faced the stable.

The gate and 22-metre board fence closing the north edge of the Yagi estate at Korien, designed by Fujii Koji to match the house behind it. Registered 2023.

A grand 1932 rice merchant's machiya on Kishiwada's old Kishū Kaidō, with a honkawara-tiled roof, a through-passage doma and rare koematsu pine fittings.

Completed in 1965 and designed by Kishida Hideto, the Riverside Building is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property standing along the Tosabori River in Nakanoshima, Osaka. Discover this exemplary International Style office building featuring an innovative highway overpass-inspired structure and continuous horizontal ribbon windows.

Behind a grand 1930 main house in Kishiwada, Osaka, this small lime-plastered storehouse reveals careful craft in its carved brackets and wrapped eave cornice.

At the Wada residence in old Kishiwada, an L-shaped wall divides the garden from the front approach. Built in 1930, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Just 1.8 m wide, the Wada Residence's 1930 kitchen gate carries sukiya refinement: a gently curved tile roof and board-clad wing walls in the old castle town of Kishiwada, Osaka.