Meiji
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The Osaka Tenmangu Shrine Assembly Hall of 1911 holds 5 rooms between the main hall and Baikaden. Once a waiting room, it now hosts receptions and plum exhibitions.
Meiji-era detached reception wing of the Okamoto family in Kaizuka, Osaka. Though altered, it keeps a fine 8-mat tea room. Registered in 2003; closed to visitors.
Built in 1910 as the "northwest store", this Toyonaka storehouse has a plaster karahafu and twin round windows on its gable and now hosts concerts. Registered 2008.
Dated to 1877 by a prayer talisman, this Toyonaka storehouse has a formal tiled roof, a north door once linked to a guest room and tall board walls. Registered 2008.
An early-Meiji tool store in Hirakata, Osaka, facing the main house across the yard: a long one-storey clay-walled building with a front canopy. Registered in 2017.
An early-Meiji gatehouse in Hirakata, Osaka, ten bays long, with a former stable, attendants' rooms and deep eaves over a plastered street front. Registered in 2017.
Built in 1882 as a passage-through worship hall and moved aside around 1940, this small building at Ono Shrine in Sennan now serves as its office. Listed in 2017.
This 18-metre timber fence at Ono Shrine in Sennan divides sanctuary from worship hall. Dating from about 1882, it was listed in 2017 for its role in the precinct.
Katagiri Seiryudo Washing Area is an early Meiji timber shelter roofing the gap between two Kaei storehouses in Sakai, floored with local red brick in herringbone.
Katagiri Seiryudo Brick Wall is a 6.4-metre early Meiji wall in English bond under a small tiled roof, screening a brick-floored work area from a Sakai garden.
The Kanda Shrine Assembly Hall, built in 1882 and moved here in 1924, holds formal Edo-style rooms under a roof that changes from hipped to gabled. How to view it.
The Kanda Shrine Mikoshi Storehouse is a mid-Meiji clay-walled store built around its portable shrine, fronted by a copper-roofed curved gable. What to look for.
The Kanda Shrine South Gate, an 1889 koraimon 4.1 metres wide, carries its eaves on heavy cantilever beams and faces the road from Kaizuka Station. What to see.
The kyakuma at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, is a Meiji-era reserve guest room. Though a secondary space, it was finished with choice timber and registered in 2006.
The taikoro at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, is a Meiji-era drum tower. A long range on a cut-stone plinth faces the street, and its tower carries cusped katomado windows.
A 1912 brick building of just 56 square metres on Osaka's Tosabori-dori, registered in 1997. Granite-framed openings, a low arch, and the tea salon that saved it.
Meiji tea room named Gettoan on a cotton merchant's estate in Yao, Osaka: a rustic three-mat room for wabi tea and a later room for sencha. Registered in 2021.
Two-storey storehouse at the west edge of a Kawachi cotton merchant's estate in Yao, Osaka, with a plaster fan on its gable and reused beams. Registered in 2021.
The main gatehouse of a Kusaka village headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024: a long nagayamon with a rare hipped roof, on the old Daidō road.
A Meiji-era study and covered corridor on the west stone wall of the Nakamura estate in Amami, Kawachinagano: a six-mat study, a former bath and exposed-lath eaves.