Edo
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An Edo-period stone girder bridge in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. It only runs just 6.0 metres from the one end of it to the other side of it.
The Ichijoji Temple Main Hall in Kasai, Hyogo, an Important Cultural Property since 1983, is a stilted nine-bay hall of 1628 with a widened worship space.
In Itami near Osaka, the Former Okada Residence is a townhouse dated to 1674, rare for its century, fronting Japan's oldest sake brewery with a known build date.
The main hall of Takakura Shrine in Tanba, Hyogo, built in 1705 by local carpenters, is among the region's largest shrine halls, with gables and painted carvings.
Jōonji, a Nichiren temple in Amagasaki's Teramachi quarter, holds two Important Cultural Properties: a 1623 Main Hall and the city's only tahōtō, a 1607 pagoda.
Rebuilt in 1626, Hiromine Shrine Worship Hall in Himeji stands eaves to eaves with the eleven-bay sanctuary. Its east bay was dropped and its sides left open.
The Funayakata in Kobe's Sorakuen, the cabin of a river barge used by the lords of Himeji around 1700, is kept on land and said to be the last river barge in Japan.
The storehouse of the Ashida Family Residence in Amagasaki, built around 1770 and moved on rollers around 1965, is a two-storey store sealed in white plaster.
The barn of the Ashida Family Residence in Amagasaki is a plain late Edo timber building with an open bay on the north and latticed windows on the south side.
A late Edo yakuimon gate 2.6 m wide at the south front of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, with round-and-flat tiles and a butterfly crest; registered 2012.
A two-story late Edo earthen storehouse on the east side of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, split into an inner store and a rice store; registered 2012.
A late Edo thatched farmhouse in Sayo, Hyogo, 22.7 m long, with an earth-floored work area and eight raised rooms; a typical big Harima house registered in 2012.
A short late Edo wall at the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, stepping up from the rice storehouse to the rear wall, white plaster over a board base; registered 2012.
A 45 m late Edo earthen wall running from the front gate of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, on fitted cut stone, with a small east gate; registered 2012.
Built in 1853 at Fukuyoshi in Sayo, Hyogo, this thatched two-storey farmhouse keeps a formal shikidai entrance and an eight-room plan. Registered 2024. Not open.
This late Edo storehouse behind the Inoue main house at Fukuyoshi in Sayo, Hyogo, has earthen walls stopped at the middle coat, a stone plinth and pantiles.
The oldest of six registered buildings on a former headman's estate in Amagasaki: a later-Edo two-storey storehouse, plastered and board-clad, on the street front.
Late Edo main house of a former village headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo: six rooms, two central pillars and plastered walls. Registered 2011. Private.
The main gate of Unshoji in Himeji is a mid-Edo bell-tower gate, moved here in 1915, with paired square and round posts and a railed upper storey hung with a bell.
The main hall of Unshoji in Himeji, built in 1751, wraps a pent roof around its tiled hip-and-gable roof, with fan rafters and a six-room Ōbaku Zen plan inside.