Edo

Built around 1646 in Kyoto by Ichijo Ekan, a son of Emperor Go-Yozei, this thatched imperial tea villa was moved to Kamakura with its garden stones in 1959.

The Former Ito Family House, a headman's farmhouse of around 1700 floored in split bamboo, stands in Kawasaki's open-air folk museum, which its rescue founded.

Yugyo-ji's stone and mud walls turn at right angles from the main gate to enclose the forecourt. Its coursed andesite stone wall, about 1.9 metres high, is late Edo work.

The Sojiji Koshokutsu, an 1850s shoin house moved from Tsuruoka in 1911, is the chief abbot's home, with carved transoms and two tatami rooms. Registered 2005.

The Sojiji Hokodo, an 1850s hall moved from Tsuruoka in 1911, hosted the first service at the relocated temple and keeps late-Edo carving across a 30 m front.

An 1867 purification pavilion at Ryukoji in Fujisawa, just 5.1 square meters yet full of late-Edo carving: turtles on waves and a dragon carved in the round.

Built in 1720, the oldest registered building at Ryukoji in Fujisawa enshrines Myoken, bodhisattva of the North Star, under a coffered ceiling by the approach.

Painted by Yosa Buson in 1771, this National Treasure album captures ten pleasures of nature in palm-sized scenes and pairs with Ike no Taiga's Jubenzu.

Juben-zu, Ike no Taiga's 1771 National Treasure album, depicts ten conveniences of villa life in palm-sized leaves, with ties to Buson and Kawabata Yasunari.

Uragami Gyokudo's ink-only snowscape Toun Shisetsu-zu, a National Treasure once owned by Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata. History, artistry, and viewing tips.

This National Treasure colophon by Yuan literatus Feng Zizhen praises a lost insect scroll by Song painter Yi Yuanji. Sen no Rikyu's letter saved it from being cut.

The former Yanohara house at Sankeien in Yokohama, a late Edo gassho farmhouse moved from Shokawa in Gifu in 1960 ahead of a dam, is among the largest of its kind.