Edo

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.

Joseiji Temple Main Hall in Inuyama, Aichi, is an 1808 Shin Buddhist hall registered in 2007, with dragon carvings and a coffered ceiling, near Inuyama Station.

Jomanji Temple Main Gate in Inuyama, Aichi, was a rear gate of Inuyama Castle, moved to this temple lane in 1877 and registered in 2007. A single-bay yakuimon.

Jomanji Temple Bell Tower of 1796, in the castle town of Inuyama, Aichi, was registered in 2007. One bay square, open on all sides, on a flared hakamagoshi base.

The Shirai Family Residence Main House at Kō in Toyokawa is a late Edo sake brewer's townhouse with a low half-storey and two bands of lattice, registered in 2004.

The Shinshu Otani-ha Nagoya Betsuin East Gate and Earthen Wall is a late Edo koraimon in central Nagoya, the one structure to survive the 1945 air raid.

The Zuihoin Main Hall and Priests' Quarters, built in 1813 at Myokoji and moved into central Ichinomiya in 1915 after the Nobi earthquake, was registered in 2021.

A late Edo townhouse in Isshiki, Nishio, registered in 2022. A drawing dated 1849 matches its six-room farmhouse plan, and the altar room has a raised bay.

A late Edo reception wing at Zengyoji in Nagoya, registered in 2018. Its shikidai porch, lattice gable and cusped windows mark a temple that received guests of rank.

Zengyoji Temple Main Gate in Nagoya is a four-legged gate of 1755, dated by a surviving ridge tablet naming its carpenter. Stacked arched beams; registered in 2018.

Late Edo in date, Zengyoji Temple Drum Tower carries a pyramidal turret off-centre on a gabled roof and began life as a storehouse below. Registered in 2018.

Built in 1706 in Nagoya, Zengyoji Temple Main Hall omits the columns of its outer worship area beneath a latticed coffered ceiling. Registered in 2018.