Edo
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A thatched L-shaped farmhouse in Mitane, Akita, built in the mid-1800s with segai bracketing reserved for high-ranking households. Viewing by advance booking.
The Satake Family Mausoleum at Tentokuji in Akita, built in 1672 for the Satake lords, has a doubled karahafu front, vermilion walls and rich carving inside and out.
Shinmeisha Kannon Hall in Katagami, Akita: a one-bay shingle-roofed hall of 1734 with a cusped-gable porch, designated with its cabinet and 2 ridge tags.
Isamigoma Sake Brewery Head Office East Storehouse in Masuda, Yokote, is a 33 m earthen sake store, Edo-period at its east end, extended in late Meiji. Listed 2002.
An 1847 earthen storehouse in Masuda, Akita, with black and white lime plaster outside and a lacquered tatami parlour within. Registered in 2010, privately held.
Shinmei Shrine Inari Torii in Yurihonjo, Akita, is an 1810 stone gate, the oldest of the shrine's seven registered structures, with thick collars and tilted pillars.
Shinmei Shrine Haiheiden in Yurihonjo, Akita, joins an 1867 worship hall to a 1915 offering hall, with carved sumo wrestlers and ceiling art by domain painters.
The front gate of the Watanabe family residence in Kazuno, Akita, is a doorless late Edo yakuimon 4.7 metres wide that frames the stone steps leading to the house.
The upper sake storehouse of Watanabe Hikobei Shoten in Gojome, Akita, from the late 18th century, survived a fire in 1921 and keeps a bold frame of thick posts.
The lower sake storehouse of Watanabe Hikobei Shoten in Gojome, Akita, from the early 19th century, survived a 1921 fire and closely matches the upper storehouse.