Edo
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A late Edo workshop east of the Hirao rice storehouse in Morio, Toyooka: 2 storeys, white plaster below and clay above, with storage upstairs and a garage below.
A late Edo waiting house for visitors' attendants beside the Hirao main house in Morio, Toyooka: 6 bays, 2 storeys, with an alcoved room, renovated in 2003.
An 1833 storehouse at right angles to the ceramics storehouse of the Hirao estate in Morio, Toyooka: 2 storeys of white plaster with built-in shelves inside.
An 1826 guest house in the Hirao estate, Morio, Toyooka, remodelled in Meiji: formal rooms with alcoves on both floors facing the garden, plus its own entrance.
Despite its name, this 1790 storehouse behind the Hirao main house in Morio, Toyooka, is the estate's oldest dated building: white plaster under a floating roof.
A late Edo larder for salt and miso beside the Hirao retirement house in Morio, Toyooka: a single-storey storehouse of 3 bays, moved in Meiji, earth floor.
A late Edo service bridge in the Hirao estate, Morio, Toyooka: four stones, 3.0 by 1.5 metres, with full-width steps, linking the kitchen side to the storehouses.
A late Edo stone bridge in the Hirao estate, Morio, Toyooka, carrying the cart road from the gatehouse to the main house: 3.0 by 2.5 metres with a slight arch.
Ashida Family Residence Stone Wall and Earthen Wall, a late Edo retaining wall 2.5 m high in Tanba, Hyogo, of fieldstone and random masonry under an earthen wall.
A late Edo roofed washing place on the river through the Hirao estate in Morio, Toyooka: 5 stone steps cut into the embankment under a light 3.9-metre shelter.
Late Edo embankments lining the river through the Hirao estate in Morio, Toyooka: 148 metres of granite, basalt and fieldstone framing the house across the water.
Running 164 metres along the Ajiwara River in Hamasaka, Hyogo, this wall mixes rough Edo masonry with cut stone of 1912 and keeps a boat landing and steps.
A later Edo noh stage at Tomari Shrine in Kakogawa, Hyogo, registered in 2008, with a 4.9-metre main stage, side and rear stages, a bridgeway and bold exposed beams.
A late Edo offering hall at Tomari Shrine in Kakogawa, Hyogo, registered in 2008, linking the kagura hall to the main hall, with a single tatami room inside.
A National Treasure at Kobe's Hakutsuru Museum: seventy-one scrolls of Nirvana Sutra commentary, fifty-four copied in Tang China, the rest later Japanese additions.