Edo
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A four-and-a-half-mat tea room of 1826 hidden behind a house in Inuyama, Aichi. Woven ceiling over the host, boarded over guests. Registered in 2013, open yearly.
The main hall of Oma Shrine in Seto, Aichi, built in 1805, is a three-bay nagare-style shrine whose framed doorway, set back from the open front, shows a local form.
A late-Edo grain store in Inuyama facing the inner gate across the compound. Five and a half ken long and 51 square metres, the largest store on the Okumura plot.
A late-Edo merchant house on Inuyama's old highway, rebuilt after the 1842 fire. Seven ken wide, plaster-clad, with a low tsushi upper floor. Registered 1999.
A small late-Edo gate at the former Okumura merchant house in Inuyama, Aichi: black-plastered front, white rear, just six square meters, registered in 1999.
Rebuilt in Inuyama after an 1842 fire by the tile makers who revived Inuyama ware, the Ozeki Family Main House keeps a vast earthen work hall. Registered 1999.
The Ozeki Family Storehouse in Inuyama is a two storey earthen walled kura of about 1842. A pent roof shelters its east front and its ground floor is a gallery.
The long gatehouse of the Onoda Family Residence in Toyohashi, Aichi, built about 1849: 17 meters with storerooms each side of the doors. Registered 2013. Private.
The main hall of Kagakuji, family temple of the Kira clan in Nishio, Aichi, built in 1684, keeps the six-room plan and slender timbers of an early Zen hall.
At Kakuo-ji, a Rinzai temple in Fuso, Aichi, the 1840 kuri is a Registered Cultural Property: a 24-meter temple kitchen with a roof smoke vent and a decorated gable.
Kakuo-ji Dainichido in Fuso, Aichi is a small 1794 worship hall, one of five registered buildings that together preserve an intact Edo-period Zen temple precinct.
Kakuoji Temple Main Hall in Fuso, Aichi, dates from 1814 and joined Japan's register in 2005. A Zen hall on an abbot's six-room plan, with a hidden upper floor.
A thatched late-Edo farmhouse south of Nagoya Station, built by the local yotsudate method, its garden pine said to model the old pine on the Nagoya Noh stage.
The Kamiya Family Residence Koan Teahouse in Nagoya is a late Edo tea room of 10 square metres, moved here in 1911, with timber said to come from Nagoya Castle.
The Kamiya Family Residence Hakuroken in Nagoya is a late Edo sukiya building of 78 square metres, combining a broad tea room with a tiny attached tea room.
Built in 1859 for a rice dealer and village headman in Okazaki, this registered merchant house sets a latticed townhouse front before a farmhouse plan of six rooms.
A ridge tag inside this 1859 storehouse in Okazaki names the same year and carpenter as the main house it faces. White plaster, boarding, a deep eave at the door.
The Former Isobe Family Residence Main Building faces Honmachi Street in Inuyama, Aichi. Built in the 1860s for a kimono merchant, registered in 2005. Free entry.
An Edo-period thatched farmhouse in Nisshin, Aichi, framed in the local yotsudate system. An ink inscription dated 1709 was found during repairs. Free entry.
The Former Ito Main Building in Handa, Aichi, registered in 2022, is a late Edo brewer's house where an open beamed work floor gives way to a formal eight-mat room.