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This 47-metre early-Showa wall of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara faces the Takami Shrine approach, its plaster pierced with oval and oblong lattice-style openings.
A small early-Showa storehouse on the west edge of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with a floating tiled roof and plaster walls. Visible from the street.
An early-Showa gatehouse on the north side of the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with a 2-bay gateway and a roof that differs at each end. Seen from the road.
An early-Showa annex in the Tanaka compound in Matsubara, with 8- and 6-mat guest rooms at one end and a barn, bath and pickling shed under a lower roof.
The Tanioka Memorial Hall of 1935 in Higashiosaka, Osaka, a clock-tower school rebuilt after the Muroto Typhoon, now houses a university museum of trade history.
Tamate Bridge in Kashiwara, Osaka, registered in 2001, is a five-span suspension bridge of 1928, built for an amusement park and carried on castle-like white towers.
At 127 square metres, this 1932 building is the largest registered structure at Chihaya Shrine, Osaka. Three gabled blocks push forward toward the approach.
This 1.6 square metre pavilion of 1928 shelters a natural stone basin at Chihaya Shrine, Osaka. Posts run to the ridge; two tiers of brackets carry the eaves.
Chihaya Shrine's 1928 worship hall, by Oe Shintaro, is open on all sides but for one set of rear doors, so the eye passes straight through to the forest.
Oe Shintaro designed this 1928 hall on the Chihaya Castle site in Osaka. Slender timbers and finely worked door fittings distinguish it. Registered in 2024.
Just 2.5 square metres, this 1932 subsidiary shrine at Chihaya Shrine in Osaka repeats the Main Hall's round columns, tie-rails and tall gable pendant.
A mid-Meiji farmhouse in Akagawa, Osaka, registered in 2025 as Asahi Ward's first listed building. Deep eaves, a wide odo door, an attic reached only by ladder.
Osaka's landmark observation tower in Shinsekai, rebuilt in 1956 by Naito Tachu after the 1912 original was lost. Decks at 87.5m and 94.5m. Registered in 2007.
Built in 1946 and moved in 1959, this registered Osaka tearoom houses three rooms for sencha, sukiya carpentry crossed with Chinese detail and Indian chintz walls.
The Terada Family Residence Stone Wall in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936, runs 56 metres of rusticated granite along the old highway, with one arched service door.
The Terada Family Residence Inner Storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936, is a small earthen-walled store linked to the main house by a covered passage.
The Terada Family Residence Main House in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936, sets a Spanish porch and reception room against sukiya tatami rooms under one roof.
The Terada Family Residence New House in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1958, carries a tiled gable and a flat deck over reinforced concrete, and faces the main house.
The Terada Family Residence Outer Storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, was moved here in 1936, and carving under its canopy points to an origin in the nineteenth century.
The Terada Family Residence Barn in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936 into falling ground, held stores below and the room for the household's male servants above.