Edo
Gunma · 江戸Browse Gunma’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Discover the Tomizawa Family Residence, an Important Cultural Property in Nakanojo, Gunma. Built around 1792, this majestic thatched-roof farmhouse is one of the oldest sericulture houses in Japan, offering a rare glimpse into Edo-period rural life and silk culture.
A late-Edo headman's house in Naganohara, Gunma, which served as a rest house for daimyo on the Shinshu Kaido. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2018.
The Shoda Memorial Hall in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1853 during the late Edo period. Originally a merchant family residence, it now showcases the remarkable history of Shoda Soy Sauce — from rice traders to one of Japan's five major soy sauce manufacturers. As a constituent property of the Japan Heritage site Sato-numa, it tells the story of how Tatebayashi's marshland culture nurtured a thriving food industry.
Discover the Shoda Shoyu Inari Shrine, a registered tangible cultural property from the late Edo period, quietly standing within the grounds of one of Japan's oldest soy sauce breweries in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture.
The oldest and smallest Shoda building, this late-Edo earthen storehouse was moved here in 1987 with the old shop and now serves as the Memorial Hall's repository.
This late Edo gatehouse of the Shinden honjin at Nakayama-juku in Takayama, Gunma, served as the local post office from 1873 to 1966. A rare early rural example.
The oldest of the eight Fujiu buildings in Kiryu, Gunma, this late-Edo farmhouse carries a broad thatched irimoya roof. Private; not open to the public.
Discover Bunbuku Sake Brewery Shop (Kezuka Memorial Hall), a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Tatebayashi, Gunma. This beautifully preserved late Edo-period machiya showcases traditional Japanese merchant architecture and nearly 200 years of sake-brewing heritage.
A Southern Song celadon vase of shimokabura form, a Japanese National Treasure with a smooth, crackle-free pale-blue glaze. Its kiln is still debated by scholars.