Edo
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A late Edo storehouse behind a Takayama tea shop, a century older than the building on the street. Its okiyane roof and inward-leaning posts show an older manner.
The Hanada-Imai Main House in Mimayano, Gero, began in 1829. Its earthen-floor side became a Western clinic and its upper floor is thought to have raised silkworms.
Chikusetsuro, the Yabashi Family Residence Retirement House in Ogaki, dates to 1805 and is the estate's oldest building, a single storey under a two-tier roof.
The Yabashi Family Residence Front Gate in Ogaki dates from 1848 to 1854. Its black-plastered, board-skirted walls echo the Main House and lead guests to the Shoin.
The Yabashi Family Residence Main House is an 1833 townhouse on the old Nakasendō in Ogaki, with a low tsushi-nikai upper floor, black-plastered eaves and lattice.
The Yabashi Family Residence Shoin (Kootei) in Ogaki is a Kaei-era reception wing whose black-plastered step, scored earthen floor and woven dado show sukiya craft.
The Yabashi Family Residence Middle Storehouse in Ogaki is a Tenpō-era kura of 52 square metres with a gable-end door facing the Main House and shutters upstairs.
The Yabashi Family Residence East Storehouse in Ogaki is the smallest of 3 Tenpō-era kura, at 29 square metres, with a covered doorway and notched-batten siding.
Late-Edo townhouse of Hida Furukawa's Hourai sake brewery, moved here in 1904, with deep eaves, a bracketed pent roof, varied lattices and an open-beamed doma.
An 1864 clay storehouse closing the south end of the Hourai brewery's row on the Seto River in Hida Furukawa, with a king-beam roof frame and boarded east skirt.
Built in 1804, the oldest of six registered buildings at Hida Furukawa's Hourai sake brewery: a clay storehouse on the Seto River with heavy doors and okiyane roof.
Gifu's Nagataki Hakusan Shrine holds 27 wooden masks from late Kamakura to late Edo — Okina, Sanbasō, kishin and rare hanataka faces of Hakusan worship.