Shōwa

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.

Architect Ikedaya Hisakichi built this single-storey house in Izumisano, Osaka, around 1927. A three-mat tea room of salvaged temple timber adjoins the entrance.

This 17-square-metre timber outbuilding adjoins the Ikedaya house in Izumisano, Osaka. Storage fills the ground floor; a six-mat plank-floored study sits above.