Edo
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An 1846 reception wing beside the Kusaka main house in Awaga, Asago: three eight-mat rooms facing the garden, a formal step, verandas and a sukiya canopy.
The 1799 main house of the Kusaka landowners in Awaga, Asago: 20 metres wide, nine rooms in three rows, and a bold roof frame open above the earth floor.
A late Edo kitchen wing on the Kusaka main house in Awaga, Asago, 10 by 7.5 metres, refitted in the Taisho era with a central work table and a tiled bath.
A late Edo earthen wall 88 metres long and up to 2.3 metres high round the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, on fieldstone footings with a tiled coping.
Late Edo storage sheds on the street edge of the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, open to the garden and walled in plaster on stone to the road, with a gate midway.
Kuroda Seiuemon Shoten Shop and Main House, Miki: a late Edo hardware shop with three-tier eaves and a giant saw as its sign, registered in 2019 and still trading.
The Niomon Gate of Gokurakuji at Yachiyo, Taka, Hyogo, built in 1728, is a two-storey gate with Daibutsu-style details and a vase-shaped strut under its ridge.
The main hall of Saishoji in Amagasaki, Hyogo, built in 1722, is a seven-bay Shin Buddhist hall of the typical mid-sized plan, with square posts at every bay.
The 1770 main gate of Jorakuji in Kakogawa is a tiled four-legged gate with carved gable struts and old-style pivot doors that keep their original metal fittings.
Built in 1754 beside the gate, the Jorakuji bell tower in Kakogawa has posts leaning inward on all sides, carved struts and a bell hung from a beam below the ridge.
The 1692 Jorakuji main hall in Kakogawa is a 19 by 17 metre Pure Land hall with a convex sanctuary, a painted ceiling and a cusped-gable entrance wing added in 1722.
The Jorakuji Yakushido of 1862 is a small copper-roofed pyramid hall, youngest of the temple's four registered buildings, with carved struts and a lattice front.
The anzaisho of Hontokuji, Himeji Senba Betsuin, is a late Edo temple residence where Emperor Meiji stayed, centred on a throne room with an unusual alcove.
A late Edo farmhouse at Tatsuno, Hyogo, that served as the honjin of Senbon-juku. Its shikidai entrance and hon-kawara roof mark a headman's rank; registered 2004.
A late Edo gatehouse facing the old Himeji-Tottori highway at Tatsuno, Hyogo. A tatami room lies west of the gate, a board-floored room east; registered 2004.
The main hall of Daishinji in Kasai, Hyogo, built in 1845, is a standard three-bay Jodo hall whose simplified interior is typical of the late Edo period.
Built in 1851 at Yokoo in Kasai City, Hyogo, the Takai Family Residence Main Building sets barred plaster loft windows over a projecting lattice front.
The oldest of the Tajika family's five registered buildings in Amagasaki: a late Edo pair of stores, one 2-storey and one lower, boarded below and plastered above.
Nagata Shrine Izumo Taisha Shrine in Kobe is a late Edo shrine to Okuninushi, moved here in 1928, deeper than it is wide and crowned with chigi and katsuogi.
Nagata Shrine Tsukuyomi Shrine in Kobe is a late Edo moon-god shrine that survived the 1924 fire and was moved onto a new stone base and painted red in 1928.