Edo

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Enichiji Temple Back Gate
Hyogo 江戸
Enichiji Temple Back Gate

The Enichiji Temple Back Gate in Tanba, Hyogo, is a mid-Edo yakuimon gate 2.3 metres wide, the oldest of five registered buildings, with carved beam ends.

Enichiji Temple Sutra Repository
Hyogo 江戸
Enichiji Temple Sutra Repository

The Enichiji Temple Sutra Repository in Tanba, Hyogo, is a late Edo earthen storehouse holding a rare palace-style sutra cabinet with fan rafters in a tall room.

Enichiji Temple Priests' Quarters
Hyogo 江戸
Enichiji Temple Priests' Quarters

The Enichiji Temple Priests' Quarters in Tanba, Hyogo, is a late Edo thatched kuri of 373 square metres, the largest registered building here, with an earthen entry.

Enichiji Temple Bell Tower
Hyogo 江戸
Enichiji Temple Bell Tower

The Enichiji Temple Bell Tower in Tanba, Hyogo, is a tall skirted belfry of 1867 with a cypress-bark roof, exposed roof framing above its bronze bell.

Enichiji Temple Abbot's Quarters
Hyogo 江戸
Enichiji Temple Abbot's Quarters

The Enichiji Temple Abbot's Quarters in Tanba, Hyogo, is a late Edo thatched Zen hall with a six-room plan and wide verandas, linked by corridors to the Buddha hall.

Otsuchi Jinja Torii
Hyogo 江戸
Otsuchi Jinja Torii

A late-Edo torii of Rokko granite, 5.2 metres high, marks the south edge of Otsuchi Shrine in Kobe, a village enriched by water-mill oil pressing. Listed in 2016.

Otsuchi Jinja Honden
Hyogo 江戸
Otsuchi Jinja Honden

The main hall of Otsuchi Shrine in Kobe covers 1.5 square metres. Built late in the Edo period for a village of oil-pressing water mills, it was registered in 2016.

Retirement Room in the Otoshi Family Residence
Hyogo 江戸
Retirement Room in the Otoshi Family Residence

A modest wing where the retired head of the Otoshi household lived. Set along the north-east wall, it pairs a six-mat room with a four-mat anteroom. Registered 1999.

Otoshi Family's Grain Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family's Grain Storehouse

This grain store sits where the estate's south-east and south-west faces meet, sharing one roof with the adjoining carpenter's room. Its street face is board-clad.

Otoshi Family Residence Rice Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family Residence Rice Storehouse

A relatively large rice store in the south garden, its entrance flanked by namako lattice-plaster walls. A slightly offset ridge hints it may predate the 1835 main house.

Otoshi Family Residence Main Building
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family Residence Main Building

Built in 1835 for the great headman of the lower Kakogawa, this 455-square-metre, hip-and-gable-roofed house heads a nine-building compound registered in 1999.

Otoshi Family Tea Room
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family Tea Room

A small tea room off the veranda of the main house, pairing a three-mat tea space with a two-mat preparation area. A copper eave shades its south side. Registered 1999.

Otoshi Family Residence Row House and Row House Gate
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family Residence Row House and Row House Gate

This range on the estate's south-east street edge sets a central gate between a storehouse-like block and service rooms; its plaster and boarded walls shape the street.

West Furniture Storehouse of the Otoshi Family Residence
Hyogo 江戸
West Furniture Storehouse of the Otoshi Family Residence

A small plaster store on the north-west wall by the detached wing. Gable-entered and just 17 square metres, it is the smallest of the nine, holding household utensils.

Otoshi Family Residence East Furniture Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Otoshi Family Residence East Furniture Storehouse

A closed plaster storehouse at the corner where the estate's north-east and north-west edges meet. Three by two bays, it held household utensils with the west store.

Onoe Shrine Zuishin Gate
Hyogo 江戸
Onoe Shrine Zuishin Gate

Onoe Shrine Zuishin Gate in Kakogawa is a late Edo eight-legged gate, registered in 2007. Its guardian statues face each other; the New Year sun rises in its center.

Onoe Shrine Main Hall
Hyogo 江戸
Onoe Shrine Main Hall

Onoe Shrine Main Hall in Kakogawa is a late Edo three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary, registered in 2007, with two-step brackets and stacked rainbow beams on its gable.

Kajiwara Family Residence Inner Great Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Kajiwara Family Residence Inner Great Storehouse

Late Edo storehouse on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji, extended in the Taisho era and renovated c. 1947: at 82 m² the largest kura there, with namako-kabe.

Kajiwara Family Residence Inner Storehouse
Hyogo 江戸
Kajiwara Family Residence Inner Storehouse

Late Edo storehouse on the Kajiwara estate in Oshio, Himeji, with namako-kabe only on its courtyard sides and plasterwork on its window brackets; renovated c. 1947.

Kajiwara Family Residence Main House
Hyogo 江戸
Kajiwara Family Residence Main House

Main house of a salt-field landowner in Oshio, Himeji: an 1853 irimoya-roofed block with a six-room plan, plus a 1906 reception wing. 435 m², registered in 2009.