Edo
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The Former Ito Main Storehouse in Handa, Aichi, registered in 2022, is a late Edo earthen-walled store with tiled lattice work outside and zelkova columns within.
Three storehouses linked in a row behind a merchant house at Okoshi post town, raised between the late Edo period and the post-war years, with white plaster gables.
Dating from the late Edo period, this thick-walled storehouse in Ichinomiya, Aichi is the oldest of the nine buildings on a working wool mill site. Listed in 2020.
The Kozenji Kuri in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1830 on the ruins of a medieval castle. This Edo-period kitchen hall of a Rinzai Zen temple founded by the samurai Kajiwara Kagetoki features exquisite traditional timber craftsmanship including rainbow beams and a distinctive smoke-vent dormer. Located near National Treasure Inuyama Castle, it offers a serene glimpse into centuries of warrior heritage and Zen monastic life.
Discover the Kokonoe Mirin Okura, a registered tangible cultural property in Hekinan, Aichi. Built in 1706 and relocated in 1787, this historic warehouse is the symbol of Japan's oldest mirin brewery with over 300 years of history.
Two late Edo clay-walled storehouses in Inuyama, Aichi, set at right angles and joined by a lean-to sheltering the sake pressing floor. Registered in 2005.
The 1847 guest wing of a brewing house in Inuyama, Aichi, with a formal entrance platform, a 15-mat hall and a room copied from the Zangetsu-tei. Registered in 2005.
A late Edo brewing complex in Inuyama, Aichi: an open shed for washing and steaming rice, backed by a three-story storehouse for koji and maturing. Listed 2005.
The smallest of seven registered Kojima buildings in Inuyama, Aichi: a late Edo storehouse of 37 square meters with stepped plaster surrounds. Registered in 2005.
A small late-Edo tea pavilion in a 400-year-old sake brewer's compound in Inuyama, its red bengara walls a registered piece of the old castle-town streetscape.
Zaigaji Temple Thirty-Three Kannon Hall in Toyokawa, Aichi, is a 21-square-meter hall of 1800, registered in 2014, enshrining thirty-three Kannon images.
Zaikaji Temple Main Hall, a registered Edo-period hall on a mountainside in Aichi, was rebuilt in 1823 by carpenter Okada Gozaemon and shelters a hidden Kannon.
In Toyokawa, Aichi, Zaikaji's Monju-do is a registered 1859 timber hall by carpenter Okada Gozaemon, housing a hidden Manjushri and a working goma fire altar.
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.