Edo

An Edo-period porcelain sake bottle held at Dazaifu in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Its own matching fellow there, of the very same form, is still unlisted.

Discover the Gojō Family Documents, an Important Cultural Property in Yame, Fukuoka. This collection of 369 documents across 17 scrolls preserves imperial letters from the Southern Court era, offering a rare window into Japan's dramatic Nanbokuchō period.

A 31-cm Nabeshima porcelain dish at Kyushu National Museum. Red and white peonies rise from a Taihu rock in a ribbed bowl, made at Saga's secret kiln c. 1680-1700.

Held at the Kyushu National Museum, this Important Cultural Property is a Yuan-dynasty Chinese tea bowl from the 13th–14th century. A rare kiln effect at the boundary of its black and brown glazes produces a silvery 'rainbow' band that gave the bowl its name. Its provenance traces back to the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa.

Five mausoleums of the Arima lords at Bairinji in Kurume, Fukuoka, built 1630 to 1655, an Important Cultural Property since 2018, pairing tombs with tablet halls.

The main hall of Kashii-gu in Fukuoka, rebuilt in 1801 by the domain lord Kuroda Nagayori, is the only hall in the Kashii style, with porches on three sides.

Sakurai Shrine in Itoshima keeps its 1632 main hall, worship hall, and gate before a sacred cave from 1610, listed as an Important Cultural Property in 2023.

Hakata's Sumiyoshi Shrine main hall, rebuilt in 1623, keeps the ancient Sumiyoshi-zukuri form: a straight roof, no bracket sets, and red-and-white walls.

An 1842 thatched farmhouse on the pilgrimage road to Mount Hiko in Soeda, Fukuoka. A dated inscription fixed its age; split bamboo clads its rain-struck east wall.

The Minamimaru Tamon Turret of Fukuoka Castle, built by Kuroda Nagamasa, joins a two-storey corner turret to a long turret of 30 ken and was rebuilt in 1854.

Probably the oldest farmhouse in Kyushu, this mid-Edo thatched magariya at Shingu is called Sennen-ya after a Saicho legend. Interior closed; exterior viewable.

Behind Bairin-ji in Kurume lie the Arima lords' tombs. The first two got gilded mausoleum halls, later lords towering stone pagodas, as daimyo customs evolved.

The Ansei Storehouse of Kanhokuto Sake Brewery in Kama, Fukuoka, is a 22-metre earthen-walled sake store of 1857 with a post-free ground floor under a beamed roof.

The late Edo shop and main house of Kanhokuto Sake Brewery in Kama, Fukuoka, faces the Akizuki road with a grey-plastered gable and hides guest rooms by a courtyard.

The service gate and brick wall of the Former Yoshihara Residence in Okawa, Fukuoka, join a late Edo sliding-door gate to a 1920s slag brick wall, registered 2017.

The bell tower of Kyoenji Temple in Buzen, Fukuoka, is a rare three-storey wooden belfry of 1863, some 13.3 metres tall, registered as a cultural property in 2020.

A registered storehouse at the Kusumori Kawakita Residence in Ukiha, Fukuoka. Its rice store dates to 1812 and its vessel store to 1857, one roof spanning two eras.

A registered building at the Kusumori Kawakita Residence in Ukiha, Fukuoka. Despite its name, this charcoal room is a solid two-story building, dating from around 1861.

The Jokyu Soy Sauce Brewing Storehouse in Fukuoka dates from 1862 and still brews soy sauce in wooden casks. See its raised working floor and tall walls.

The Jokyu Soy Sauce Wakamiya Shrine in Fukuoka is a tiny shrine of 1792, older than the brewery. See its rare gable-entry form, carved beam ends and frog-leg strut.