Edo
Iwate · 江戸Browse Iwate’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Late-Edo thatched farmhouse in the hills of Hanamaki, Iwate, returned to its straight plan in 1978 when a later stable was removed. Turf ridge, earthen walls.
Mid-18th-century thatched farmhouse in Hanamaki, Iwate, turned into an L-shaped Nanbu magariya when a stable was added in the 1850s. Open free, April to November.
Built in 1728 with a thatched gate of 1720, the Former Kanno Family Residence in Kitakami's Michinoku Folklore Village is Iwate's oldest securely dated farmhouse.
At Denshoen in Tono, the Former Kikuchi Family Residence began as a straight farmhouse and gained its stable wing early, showing how the L-shaped magariya took form.
The Former Hoonokidate Family Residence in Ichinohe, a 29.9-meter thatched farmhouse of about 1862, is closed until September 2030 (planned) for major restoration.
A thatched farmhouse of about 1695, moved from Hirose to Mukaiyama Park in Esashi, Oshu. Its earthen-floored work area keeps an archaic double row of posts.
An L-shaped thatched farmhouse from Iwaizumi, rebuilt at Iwate Prefectural Museum. Its big stable wing shows how Nanbu farmers shared one roof with their horses.
Shohoji Temple in Oshu, Iwate: an 1811 main hall under one of Japan's largest thatched roofs, an 1807 kuri and a 1665 gate, with visiting hours, fees and access.
The Tamonin Isawa Family Residence in Kitakami, Iwate, is the thatched home of a village mountain ascetic, with a chapel-like dojo and its village shrine.
Tendaiji Temple in Ninohe, Iwate: an Important Cultural Property pair, the 1657 Niomon Gate and 1658 Main Hall, now re-roofed in cedar. Hours, fee and bus access.
The Hakusan Shrine Noh Stage at Chusonji, Hiraizumi, completed in 1853, is the only complete early modern Noh theater in eastern Japan. Its design and performances.
Shrine sanctuary of 1632 at Hidaka Shrine in Mizusawa, Oshu, a three-bay nagare-zukuri hall with distinctive porch details, among the oldest shrine halls in Iwate.
A straight thatched farmhouse from Ide in Esashi, rebuilt at Iwate Prefectural Museum. Its roof is hip-and-gable at one end and plain hip at the other.
Former main hall of a horse-headed Kannon shrine in Shizukuishi, Iwate, from the Edo period and moved in 1914; full of votive pictures, it is called the Emado.
The Former Azumaya Sake Brewery Sake Storehouse in Miyako is a late-Edo earthen brewhouse with a post-free hall, registered in 2019 and now used for film screenings.
The Former Azumaya Sake Brewery Pawn Storehouse in Miyako is a late-Edo plastered storehouse holding a pawn store and a strongroom side by side, registered in 2019.
At Tono Furusato Village, the Former Kikuchi Kiemon Residence is a straight-plan sugoya, not an L-shaped magariya, its late-Edo thatched roof echoing Nanbu farm life.
At Tono Furusato Village, the Former Kikuchi Sai Residence is an Edo-period magariya with chestnut posts and exposed-post plaster walls, a rare open lesson in carpentry.
A late Edo magariya of 380 sq m at Tono Furusato Village, the largest farmhouse there. Its three linked formal rooms mark the rank of a village headman.
The Sato Family Residence Harada Gate in Senmaya, Iwate, is a late Edo yakuimon of zelkova with cloud-carved kaerumata, said to come from a samurai retainer's house.