Edo

The document storehouse of 1867 is the second-oldest building at the Someya residence. Its thick plastered walls sheltered the archive that now dates the estate.

Registered in 2011, the late-Edo shoin at Daiganji in Chiba City arranges nine tatami rooms around shared verandas, preserving the plan of a Pure Land seminary.

Built in the mid-Edo period and registered in 2011, Daiganji Main Hall in Chiba City is one of very few surviving buildings from the Kanto Pure Land seminaries.

The Nemoto Family Residence Main House in Abiko is a late-Edo headman's farmhouse with a large earth floor, 3 linked reception rooms and a shikidai entrance.

The Nemoto Family Residence South Storehouse in Abiko is a 2-storey plastered storehouse of 1867, with a west lean-to holding its doorway and a small room.

In Narashino, Chiba, the Hirose Family Residence Main House preserves a late-Edo grain merchant's rooms and Boso farmhouse details, built by a temple carpenter.

A wooden 1866 gate fronting a pharmacy that has served Chonan's old post town for 300 years, its angled wing walls forming a forecourt to welcome travelers.

The oldest of nine registered buildings at a Futtsu soy sauce brewery: a late Edo earthen storehouse beside the shop, with double plastered doors facing the road.

A late-Edo storehouse said to have been moved from the Takanashi family in 1892, plastered black and white right up over the eaves. Registered 2018; not open.

One of the oldest buildings on a Noda soy brewer's estate: a late-Edo two-storey storehouse with gravel packed inside its walls against fire and theft. Not open.

A late Edo storehouse at the Mogi Shichiroemon soy-sauce brewers' estate in Noda, Chiba, still bearing scorch marks thought to date from the great Noda fire of 1821.

The household shrine of Noda's Mogi Shichizaemon soy brewers: an earthen sanctuary of 1808 with plaster foxes on its facade, oldest of 13 registered structures.

A tiny purification pavilion of 1808 beside a Noda soy brewer's household shrine, carved with Chinese lions, sacred foxes and a fox wedding procession. Private.

The Yamani Tsunashima Shoten Store in central Kisarazu is a late Edo shop of two plastered storehouse blocks set front to back, their ridges at different heights.

The Ino Tadataka Related Materials gather 2,345 items, from 123 finished Ino maps and 399 drafts to 63 instruments, showing how Japan's first measured map was made.

407 manuscripts, records, diaries, letters and belongings of Ohara Yugaku, the Edo-period farm reformer behind an early cooperative, shown at his museum in Asahi.

A pair of Yuan-dynasty folding screens of the sixteen arhats, attributed to Zhao of Ningbo and owned by Hokekyoji in Ichikawa; kept at the Tokyo National Museum.

A 17th-century ink painting by Iwasa Matabei: Rōgyoku summons a phoenix with her flute. A panel of the dispersed Kanaya screen, an Important Cultural Property.

Letters, diaries and effects of Meiji statesman Okubo Toshimichi, 3,053 items at the National Museum of Japanese History, an Important Cultural Property since 2004.

A National Treasure near Tokyo: a Southern Song printing of the Hanshu in 61 fascicles, holding the earliest reliable Chinese record of Japan, the Wa people.