Meiji

Granite gateposts of 1898 with arched iron gates before the Great Gate of Saikyoji in Izumi, Osaka. Arrow-tipped bars of two lengths alternate along the fence.

Jigan-ji's bell tower in Yao, Osaka, built in 1900, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. This open frame on a cut-stone base hangs its bronze bell from the gable.

Jigan-ji's side gate and earthen wall in Yao, Osaka, date to early Meiji. A one-bay gate and a 12-metre tiled wall run north to the main gate, edging a temple town.

Built in 1907 as a court branch office, this earthen-walled storehouse on the old Koya pilgrimage road keeps its register shelving and iron windows. Free entry.

Built in 1938 at a Shingon temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, Jizoji Kuri is a six-room priests' residence with a lesser cuckoo carved above its formal entrance.

Jizoji Sanmon, a single-bay yakuimon gate of 1902 in Kawachinagano, Osaka, is 2.2 metres wide, stands atop a stone stairway, and is usually found closed to visitors.

A late Meiji tea house in the abbot's garden at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, planned around one trapezoidal and one triangular room joined by a service space.

Said to come from Osaka's 1903 industrial exhibition, this octagonal timber pavilion at Shitennoji Temple carries Corinthian capitals and coloured glass windows.

The 1910 Worship Hall of Sukunahikona Shrine in Osaka stacks a chidori-hafu over a curved karahafu on its front; its center bay was once an earthen passage.

The 1910 Offering Hall of Sukunahikona Shrine in Osaka joins the plain Main Hall; in 2.2 sq m it packs carved brackets, frog-leg struts and a decorated king post.

The 1910 Main Hall of Sukunahikona Shrine in Osaka is a plain 3.4 sq m gabled sanctuary of fine timber, registered in 2000 for its proportions and arched gable beam.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Funatama Shrine Main Hall is an early Meiji shrine in Osaka with a cypress-bark roof and doors painted with ships and aeroplanes.

Rebuilt in 1877 on the old Kishu Kaido in Izumiotsu, this 10-bay gate flanks its passage with a bedding store and an attendants' room. Private; see it from the road.

An early-Meiji rice store between the gate and annex of the Tanaka compound in Hirakata, with plastered eaves and 2 latticed yoriki windows facing the street.

Built in 1887 above the Amano River in Hirakata, this south-facing landowner's house has a plastered front with mushiko windows and a heavily framed earthen floor.

An 1872 farmhouse in Matsubara with a doma filling half its length, four rooms in a grid, and an accounting counter before the altar room. Still lived in; not open.

A mid-Meiji garden gate 1.4 m wide in the Tanaka compound in Hirakata, with strongly curved rafters and red posts, dividing the front yard from the main garden.

Built in 1875, the oldest of the Tanaka buildings in Hirakata is a two-storey storehouse with stone footings, white plaster and a plaster band under its eaves.

An early-Meiji gatehouse on the Tanaka compound in Hirakata, with a plastered mushiko-window front and a roof that is gabled at one end and hipped at the other.

A reception room of about 1907 in the Tanaka compound in Hirakata: plastered walls matching its neighbours face the street, while a 6-mat room opens onto the garden.