Edo

Built in 1835, Saishin-ji Main Hall in Anjo, Aichi, is a Jodo Shinshu temple hall with wave-cut gable pendants, registered in 2022 as the work of local carpenters.

The kuri at Sairenji in Inuyama is a late-Edo priest's residence and kitchen wing, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the town below Inuyama Castle.

Below Inuyama Castle stands Sairen-ji's gate, a late-Edo yakuimon registered in 2007 for its place in the historic castle-town streetscape and its carved detail.

The 1760 main hall of Sairenji, a Pure Land temple in Inuyama's temple town, is a five-bay, hip-and-gable hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2007.

On Ama City's old Kamakura Road stands the four-legged Zen-style gate of a Nichiren temple. Registered in 2005, this mid-Edo gate survived the 1891 Nobi earthquake.

Once a Shingon fire-ritual hall, now a Nichiren temple near Nagoya, this registered wooden hall keeps an old Nichiren-hall plan under a pyramidal tiled roof.

At Jissō-ji, a Rinzai temple in Nishio, Aichi, the kuri was kitchen and living hall. Rebuilt in the Genroku era, it frames a beam-spanned room over an earthen floor.

Jissō-ji's hōjō in Nishio is a large early-Edo Zen abbot's hall at the Kira family temple. Restored with a copper roof, it is now a Nishio City cultural property.

Standing at the entrance of Jakkō-in Temple on Mount Tsugao in Inuyama, Aichi, this elegant single-bay yakuimon-style gate was built in 1836 by Takenaka Izumi Masatoshi, an official master carpenter of the Owari domain. Adorned with a charming group-of-monkeys carving, dragon reliefs, and peony wing-supports, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2005. Set within Owari's celebrated 'Maple Temple,' the gate offers visitors a vivid encounter with late-Edo temple architecture.

Standing on the slopes of Mount Tsugao in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, the Zuigudō of Jakkō-in is an elegant Edo-period prayer hall built in 1805. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, it preserves the rare features of a kagodō — a hall for sustained devotional practice — with residence-style shitomido shutters and a veranda wrapping all four sides. Dedicated to Daizuigu Bosatsu, the deity who responds to wishes, the hall sits within Owari's celebrated maple temple landscape.

Tucked into the mountainside grounds of Jakkō-in—the famed Maple Temple of Owari in Inuyama, Aichi—this miniature Bentendō is a hexagonal wooden hall built around 1820, with a footprint of just three square meters. Enshrining a Benzaiten venerated for forging bonds of love and good fortune, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2005 and stands as a rare and beautifully crafted small-scale hall of late-Edo religious architecture.

Built in 1830, the same year as the main hall, this single-bay yakui-mon faces north onto the old road. Bracketing and a carved gable strut give it character.

The most decorative of Shunkoin's seven buildings, this 1865 bell tower sits on a river-stone base, with bracketing, fan rafters, and a painted coffered ceiling.

This late-Edo entrance and shoin reflect a move: local accounts say the reception wing came in 1879 from the home of Takeda Shokuro, founder of Arimatsu shibori.

Rebuilt in 1830, Shunkoin's main hall takes the six-room hojo form under a hip-and-gable roof. It faces north, and its image is Tahonyorai, rare in Soto Zen.

Built in 1860 at Joshoji Temple in Toyota City, this kitchen-residence keeps an ink inscription naming its date and master carpenter. Registered in 2005.

Standing on the mid-slope of historic Mount Komaki in Aichi Prefecture, Sōsuikan is a refined single-story wooden zashiki hall built in 1888 as a guest reception facility and later owned by the Owari Tokugawa family. Restored to its original 1888 appearance in 2022 and registered as a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in August 2025, the hipped-roof, tile-roofed building with its formal shikidai entrance offers visitors a graceful encounter with Meiji-era hospitality architecture.

Taki Shrine's 1672 main hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, is a one-bay structure of just 2.4 square metres, registered in 2013 and set within a protective covering hall.

Chobo-ji Kuri in Nagoya is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of 1828, its date and carpenter named on the ridge tag, older than the main hall beside it.

Chōboji's main gate in Nagoya is a late-18th-century wooden yakuimon, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property at the Zen temple where Mujū wrote the Shasekishū.