Edo
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Built in 1853, the Aritoshi Shrine Back Gate in Izumisano matches the front gate in size and colour, differing only in the ornament left off its post heads.
Built in 1861, the Aritoshi Shrine Votive Tablet Hall in Izumisano still displays painted tablets offered by local schools under its tall carved elevation.
Dated 1852 by its ridge tablet, the vermilion Aritoshi Shrine Front Gate is an uncommon case of a four-legged gate fronting a Shinto shrine in Izumisano.
Late Edo in date, the Aritoshi Shrine North Purification Pavilion in Izumisano carries far more carving than such shelters usually do, with pierced brackets.
A late Edo stone girder bridge of 3.9 metres, the Aritoshi Shrine Drum Bridge is the only one of the shrine's eleven registered properties that is not a building.
The Aritoshi Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Izumisano runs eleven bays in a single file, its roof framing left open, with a porch added in 1942.
Built in 1669 and moved whole to its present site in 1942, the Aritoshi Shrine Main Hall in Izumisano packs dense carving into a hall of just 6.6 square metres.
Early Edo in date and open on all four sides, the 5.8 metre square Aritoshi Shrine Dance Hall in Izumisano serves each year as a stage for torchlit Noh.
A late Edo farmhouse in Fukae, Osaka, with a two-level roof, a four-room plan and a suspended Buddhist altar that the Agency ties to floods. Registered 2023.
The nagayamon at the entrance to Kobayashi Ichizo's Ikeda villa is a late-Edo long-house gate, said to have been relocated here in 1936 from a village headman's estate.
A late Edo storehouse for rice and oil at the corner of a headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka, with a loading door opening onto the moat that runs along the estate.
A late Edo utensil store at a headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka, clad in tall boards on the street side like the adjoining wall, and plastered white inside.
A late Edo headman's farmhouse in Takaishi, Osaka, 268 square meters, with a thatched living end, a tiled end with a low loft and archaic beams over its earth floor.
A late Edo tea room joined to a headman's house in Takaishi, Osaka: two tatami rooms with alcoves and shelves, a bark-edged alcove post and a light pantile roof.
The gatehouse of a late Edo headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka: a tiled hip-and-gable roof, grey plaster walls, a latticed window and side rooms that open inward.
A two-storey farmhouse of 1830 to 1867 in Tondabayashi, Osaka, with an earth-floored kitchen, an old cooking range and a Taisho-era roof. Registered 2008; not open.
A late-Edo machiya in Kaizuka, Osaka, said to date from after the 1854 Ansei earthquake: single-storey, 374 square meters, with heavy beams over its earthen floor.
A late-Edo 2-storey storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, where the Uno family kept kyogen costumes for torchlit Noh at Gansenji temple. Registered 2003, 26 square meters.
Late Edo main house of Ozone's headman family in Toyonaka: 271 square metres under a hip-and-gable tiled roof, with a formal entrance and latticed accounts office.
A small late Edo storehouse on the Ebara compound in Toyonaka, 4.7 by 3.8 metres, its lime plaster carried up under the eaves and accented in black. Not open.