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A 1942 dining hall built with Kongoji's Great Lecture Hall in Kawachinagano. A corridor fronts its dining room, kitchen and stores; only the dining room is coffered.
A 1941 covered timber bridge linking Kongoji's main halls and guardian shrine in Kawachinagano. Its roof stands on separate posts; closed for repairs to March 2027.
An early Showa yakuimon gate between the drum tower and sutra repository of Saikyoji in Izumi, Osaka. Its crossbeam and three beams frame the north streetscape.
A two-storey drum tower rebuilt in 1962 on the corner of Saikyoji in Izumi, Osaka. White plaster, black-framed flame-topped windows and a tile roof mark its corner.
A 2-storey storehouse of 1934 attached to a tatami wing in Sakai's Hamadera suburb, registered in 1999. Standard 3-by-2-bay size, roofed in heavy hongawara tile.
A 1934 tatami reception wing in Sakai's Hamadera suburb, registered in 1999. Copper-edged tiled canopies wrap three sides, and a tea room projects to the southeast.
A timber corridor of 1934 in Sakai's Hamadera suburb that linked a tatami wing to the old main house, registered in 1999. It divides the courtyard from the villa.
The Satake Glass Workshop in Izumi, Osaka, is an L-shaped early Showa shed where glass rods are made, its braced posts carrying a king post truss. Registered 2001.
The Satake Glass Office in Izumi, Osaka, is a small early Showa building attached to the main house, its hipped roof aligned with the house. Registered in 2001.
The Satake Glass Main House in Izumi, Osaka, is a 1941 townhouse: white plaster and lattice below, black plaster with patterned mushiko-mado windows above.
The Satake Glass Mixing Factory in Izumi, Osaka, where glass batches were blended, once also housed staff. Plaster and weatherboard wings share a vent roof.
The Satake Glass Shrine, a tiny early Showa guardian shrine at an Izumi glassworks, sits on a stone plinth under a copper roof, with a curved beam and carved strut.
The Satake Glass Melting Plant in Izumi, Osaka, holds the furnace of a working rod factory. A raised vent roof and weatherboarded gable face the street.
Jizoji Shokido, a small hall of 1935 at a Shingon temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, was given by the Osaka firm whose camphor mothballs bore the demon-queller Shoki.
The roofed gallery enclosing the central precinct of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka covers 1116 square metres and still follows the line excavation found beneath it.
At the north end of the walled precinct of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, this 1963 reconstruction divides its sanctuary into a winter hall and a summer hall.
Rebuilt in 1959 to about 37 metres, this steel-and-concrete pagoda at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka has 6 interior levels and a spiral stair visitors can climb.
Rebuilt in 1961 on its excavated footprint, the Golden Hall of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka was the first ancient Japanese hall reconstructed from dug evidence.
The south gate of the walled precinct at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, rebuilt in 1963 with guardian kings in its side bays and deliberately kept to a single storey.
The Shibakawa Building in Osaka, an Art Deco office block of 1927 near Yodoyabashi, wears Maya and Inca style ornament and now houses shops and cafés.