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.
The oldest building on the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma: a late-Edo thatched farmhouse with a four-room plan, guest room and tiled eaves. Registered 2007; private.
Late Edo town house of the Kezuka family's sake brewery in Tatebayashi, Gunma, with an open ground floor and latticed upper storey; now the Kezuka Memorial Hall.
A timber house of about 1866 behind the Horiguchi shop in Shibukawa, Gunma, split into kamite and shimote halves, the latter once a through passage. Registered 2000.
An 1866 two-storey clay-walled shop in Shibukawa, Gunma, its polished black plaster front facing the road; registered in 2000 as hard to reproduce. Exterior only.
A large late Edo townhouse on Route 353 in Nakanojo, Gunma, once the official home of a headman family and briefly a district office; registered in 2001.
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.