Edo
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.