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 1830 kuri of Kozenji in Haguro, Inuyama, Aichi, a gabled tiled building whose exposed gable framing and raised smoke-vent roof stand out. Registered.
The great storehouse of Kokonoe Mirin in Hekinan, Aichi, a 1706 brewing store moved here in 1787, clad in black clapboard and still used to mature mirin.
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.