Edo
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Middle storehouse of the Ebara compound in Toyonaka, 6.8 by 3.9 metres, with a plaster band below the eaves and dense framing that marks it as a former rice store.
A late Edo storehouse at the northwest corner of the Ebara compound in Toyonaka, 4.9 by 4.0 metres, unusual for its veranda, lean-to roof and covered passage.
A late Edo guest wing behind the main house of Ozone's headman family in Toyonaka: an eight-mat room with alcove, openwork transoms and a tea-house-style veranda.
Late-Edo North Storehouse of the Okamoto family in Kaizuka, Osaka: 6 ken long, one room inside, doors on two sides and a link to the Zashiki. Registered in 2003.
The Okamoto soy brewers' mid-Edo townhouse faces Oshita-suji in Kaizuka with a 6-ken frontage. A ridge tag dates its rear wing to 1841; it was registered in 2003.
Westernmost of three Okamoto storehouses in Kaizuka, Osaka, dated by a ridge tag to 1857, it alone keeps its traditional tile roof. Registered 2003; exterior only.
Central Okamoto storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, said to date from 1716 to 1736; its old timbers and a later altar room built around it support that. Slate roof now.
A late-Edo clothing store in Hirakata, Osaka: just 2 bays square, yet framed with heavy round logs and given a double plaster band on each gable. Registered 2017.
A late-Edo rice store in Hirakata, Osaka: a one-storey clay-walled building with a fire-sealed door canopy, two rooms and drip hoods on its gables. Registered 2017.
A late-Edo headman's farmhouse in Toyonaka, Osaka: 313 square meters with a nine-room raised floor and wide earthen floor, now used for concerts. Registered in 2008.
A late-Edo farmhouse in Hirakata, Osaka: a nine-bay core with a vast earthen floor, four-room raised floor, formal entrance and added guest rooms. Registered 2017.
A late-Edo gate in Toyonaka, Osaka, between the gatehouse and main house: 4.2 meters wide, with double board doors and eaves on bracket arms. Registered in 2008.
A late-Edo storehouse on the street in Toyonaka, Osaka, whose raised north roof makes one building look like two. Repaired after the 2018 quake, it now holds a café.
Built in 1839 at the north gate of Kaizuka's temple town in Osaka, this merchant house shows staggered gables and a corner cut away by a later road. Registered 2003.
A twenty-square-metre tatami parlour attached to an Osaka merchant house in Kaizuka's temple town, built to front a storehouse that is now gone. Registered 2003.
Katagiri Seiryudo Main House is a Bunka-era earth-plastered townhouse in Sakai, with a tearoom, altar room and the old shop attached. Registered 2000; closed inside.
Katagiri Seiryudo Middle Storehouse is a tall two-storey storehouse of 12 square metres in Sakai, said to date from the Kaei era; registered in 2000 as a model.
Katagiri Seiryudo West Storehouse was built in Osaka's Nipponbashi in the late Edo period, moved to Sakai in 1873 and now holds a kampo museum. Registered 2000.
Katagiri Seiryudo East Storehouse is a single-storey Kaei-era store on the north edge of a Sakai garden, its brick forecourt running into a Meiji work area.
Katagiri Seiryudo Marishisonten Shrine Sanctuary is a tiny guardian shrine of about 1814 in a Sakai garden, its shelter housing a one-bay nagare-zukuri hall.