Edo
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A 26-metre stone check dam on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, where an Edo random-laid wing meets a Taisho diagonal wall and bulging apron. Registered 2006.
A 32-metre check dam on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, rebuilt in the Taisho era with a dressed-stone spillway, a bulging apron and projecting wings.
The largest stone check dam on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima: 13 metres of stepped granite raised in four layers from 1773, still working. Registered 2006.
A late Edo stone check dam in a side valley of the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima: 11 metres of stepped granite in an arched plan, extended twice. Registered 2006.
Mid-Edo four-legged gate of Nanzenbo in Tomo, Fukuyama, topped by a bell chamber, with red-ochre timbers, cusped and round windows and sharply upturned eaves.
Late-Edo main hall of the Jodo Shinshu temple Nanzenbo in Tomo, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, with a tiled hip-and-gable roof, the typical Shin plan and fine period ornament.
An 1868 hipped-roof shelter over a stone well and washing floor at the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama, with posts set on stone and walls left open above and below.
The 1826 main house of the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama: 29 metres of stepped gables, an earth-floored kitchen and a wing built for an altar from the Honganji.
A late Edo woodshed east of the Nobuoka main house in Fukuyama, with a timber rack on its south side, identified with the “east wood shed” in the family records.
A late Edo bracket-arm gate with flanking walls at the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama, said to have served a room for honoured guests, with a lattice transom.
Built in 1808, the west storehouse is the oldest of the eight Nobuoka buildings in Fukuyama: a two-storey store for household goods with varied namako tilework.
The 1826 rice store of the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama: a two-storey earthen storehouse in black plaster banded with namako tilework, with the east gate beside it.
A mid-Edo stone well at Hakubotan's Enpogura in Saijo, with a six-sided curb 97 cm a side and a well house built of stone up to its roof; registered in 2017.
An Edo-period earthen storehouse at Hakubotan's founding site in Saijo, with a 1675 ridge-tag copy, a tile-lattice dado and two drip-tile courses; registered 2017.
A late-Edo stone well at Hakubotan's Tenpogura in Saijo, a six-sided curb 66 cm a side carved with the name Tenpo-i; registered in 2017 as a model of design.
The Hida family's main house on Ōsakishimojima in Kure is the oldest of five registered buildings, a late-Edo tsushi-nikai farmhouse finished with a townhouse's care.
The ceremonial gate of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima. A late-Edo copper-roofed gate 1.7 metres wide, it divided the guest-room garden from the forecourt.
The main gate and attendant's room of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima. The 3.6-metre gate is said to have come from a Yoshida domain jinya.
The main house of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, rebuilt around 1779. Its timber frame pairs an early-modern farmhouse core with modern openness.
The sake storehouse of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, built in 1733. A 22-metre plaster kura with just two internal posts, it housed the family's brewing.