Edo

A middle Edo-period shrine in Kagoshima Prefecture. Three separate halls are named in its own title, and yet the quantity there is given as one alone.

An Edo-period stone factory in Kagoshima Prefecture. The very same ground carries a second listing there, one that was made some three years earlier still.

An 1846 house on Tanegashima, Kagoshima, an Important Cultural Property since 1994, built by a village headman, with an L-shaped plan typical of the island.

A late Edo samurai house on Tanegashima, registered in 2017. Its attic yielded a 1551 spear licence issued to Tanegashima Tokitaka and a 1513 paired portrait.

A late Edo bracket-arm gate on Tanegashima, registered in 2017. Round log posts are rare in old Satsuma, and carved mouldings survive in its smallest members.

An 1867 storehouse on a gōshi estate in Tsuneyoshi, Soo City, dated by an ink inscription on a roof strut, with sloping beams, a gabled tile roof and deep eaves.

A late Edo gōshi house in Tsuneyoshi, Soo City, with the local samurai plan of three front rooms in a row, from the Hikae-no-ma entrance to the shoin-named zashiki.

A late Edo gate in the south stone wall of a gōshi estate in Tsuneyoshi, Soo City: tall posts carry the ridge, tie beams act as brackets, doors bear iron straps.

A 220-metre stone breakwater completed in 1834 at Miyagahama, Ibusuki, Kagoshima, built by Shimazu Narioki and registered in 2008, with stepped faces and a lantern.

The Moriyama Family Residence Former Workshop in Kajiki, Aira, is said to reuse timber from the 1851 Shuseikan, with adze-marked posts and an unusual roof frame.

A late Edo townhouse on the old harbour of Nishinoomote, Tanegashima, registered in 2017, with rooms along an earthen passage and a ship's-hull ceiling.

The Materials Related to Okubo Toshimichi, 1650 items kept at the Reimeikan in Kagoshima, designated in 2004, include his earliest letter and one to Saigo.