Edo

The 1844 gate of Manpukuji in Chiryu, Aichi, a hip-and-gable gate whose densely packed, skilfully made bracketing gives weight to the temple frontage. Registered.

The 1862 bell tower of Manpukuji in Chiryu, Aichi, an open Zen-style belfry with leaning posts, packed brackets and fan rafters. A registered cultural property.

Built in 1795 on an island in a Toyohashi park pond, the Minato Chikushima Benten Shrine is a three-bay tiled hall listed in 2008 with a painted coffered ceiling.

The lower storey of a tahōtō pagoda at Myōgen-in near Nagoya, whose upper level was lost to the 1891 Nōbi earthquake. It now serves as a hall for Dainichi Nyorai.

A late Edo townhouse in Ichinomiya, Aichi. Dated 1855 by its ridge tablet, it has a seven-ken front, end fire walls and a lattice bay. Registered in 2008.

Yahira Shrine Main Hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, was raised in 1700 for three merged deities, its inner sanctum split three ways behind three doors. Registered in 2013.

A late Edo farmhouse in Kanie, Aichi: thatch over a tiled pent roof, 14 meters wide, built by the Owari yotsudate method. Registered 2011, privately owned, not open.

At Ryusenji in Shinshiro, Aichi, an 1822 hall holding thirty-three Kannon images shares its posts and wall with a 1935 room built for serving tea to worshippers.

Ryusenji's kuri in Shinshiro, Aichi, dates from 1843. Four rooms lie north of the great central pillar; the kitchen occupies what was once the earth-floored half.

Built in 1820 at Ryusenji in Shinshiro, Aichi, this 124-square-metre hall keeps carved rainbow beams and transoms of cloud dragons and lions. Registered in 2013.

The 1763 kuri of Renkyoji in Nagoya, a gabled building with plastered walls and exposed gable framing, simple yet dignified. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The 1812 four-legged gate of Renkyoji in Nagoya's Meito Ward, a heavy timber gate richly carved, with plastered side walls. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The 1812 shoin of Renkyoji in Nagoya, joined to the main hall by a corridor, with a formal upper room featuring a built-in desk and coffered ceiling. Registered.

The 1758 main hall of Renkyoji in Nagoya, a hipped Takada-branch Shin hall with a typical deep plan and a drum tower over its entrance. Registered property.

The main hall of Renkeiji in Agui, Aichi, built in 1811, is a large Shin Buddhist hall with a three-bay porch and an inner sanctuary under a coved ceiling.

Held in the Hosa Library in Nagoya, the Song Edition of the Taiping Shenghui Fang (Kanazawa Bunko Version) is a Southern Song printed copy of the imperial medical encyclopedia originally compiled in 100 volumes by Wang Huaiyin under the command of Emperor Taizong. Designated an Important Cultural Property, it traveled from Hōjō Sanetoki's Kanazawa Bunko through Toyotomi Hidetsugu and Tokugawa Ieyasu to the first Owari lord Tokugawa Yoshinao. The 24 surviving printed booklets, supplemented by 27 Keichō-era manuscript volumes, bear the distinctive 'Kanazawa Bunko' and 'Gohon' seals on every volume, making it a primary witness to East Asian medical history.

Made in 1639 for Chiyohime, the shogun's two-year-old daughter, this 70-piece trousseau glitters with gold maki-e from The Tale of Genji. A National Treasure.