Edo

Two Edo-period shrine structures in Kochi Prefecture. Their own value here rests on how very few other cultural properties the region itself holds now.

Main hall of Asakura Shrine in Kochi, rebuilt in 1657 by Yamauchi Tadayoshi: a gabled hall with a karahafu porch, rich polychrome, lacquer and gilt fittings.

Kochi is the only Japanese castle where the whole honmaru survives and the original keep and lord's palace stand together, one of just twelve original keeps.

Built around 1797 in Otoyo Town, Kochi, this thatched shoin was the last lodging inside Tosa on the daimyo's overland journey to Edo. Designated in 1974.

Built in 1816 to receive the lords of Tosa, this shoin hall at Chikurinji in Kochi turns its rear rooms toward a pond garden designated a Place of Scenic Beauty.

Tosa Jinja Koro in Kochi, built by Yamauchi Tadayoshi in 1649, is still filed as temple architecture, a trace of the era when shrine and temple stood as one.

Tosa Jinja Romon in Kochi, rebuilt by Yamauchi Tadayoshi in 1631, is an almost undecorated wayo gate whose second storey was given a ceiling and treated as a room.

The burial ground of the Yamauchi lords of Tosa on Mount Hitsuzan in Kochi, a Historic Site since 2016, with huge grave markers and turtle-based steles.

Thatched c.1795 farmhouse in Aki, Kochi, where Mitsubishi founder Iwasaki Yataro was born. Registered in 2010; free to view, with entry allowed as far as the doma.

A late Edo privy of three compartments south of the thatched house at Iwasaki Yataro's birthplace in Aki, Kochi, marking the old corner of the grounds. Reg. 2010.

The main house of the Iwamura (former Kuroiwa) residence in Aki, Kochi, is a late Edo goshi rural samurai home: an alcoved guest room in front, living rooms behind.

The Iwamura Residence tiled earthen wall in Aki, Kochi, is a late Edo wall 8.6 meters long, built of river stones, thin clay and densely stacked tiles, local style.

The oldest of the Kubo property's registered parts, this late-Edo ishiguro wall in Yasuda uses Tosa river stones and a tiled cap, shaping the character of its lane.

West of the main house in Tano, Kochi, this small two-storey storehouse dates from late Edo and is said to have been moved from the Oka Goten, a Tosa lord's lodging.

An 1850s rural house in Konan, Kochi, with a deep six-room plan and stepped eaves on three sides, later crossed by a Meiji two-storey wing in Tosa dragonfly style.

A late-Edo earthen storehouse in Konan, Kochi, with two ground-floor rooms entered from different sides, clapboard below and Tosa lime plaster and tile ledges above.

A late-Edo barn in Konan, Kochi, 8 ken long, with a lean-to toward the field and a gatehouse-like west face with sayagata patterns and deep projecting eaves.

A late-Edo two-storey annex in Konan, Kochi: a passage to the fields and a toilet below, a tatami room above, in the style of Tosa goshi homes. Registered in 2002.

Late Edo priests' quarters at Jofukuji in Otoyo, Kochi, moved here in 1885, with ten rooms, a private chapel and a main pillar recalling a large local farmhouse.

Main hall of 1779 at Jofukuji, an old Shingon temple in the mountains of Otoyo, Kochi, a closed, boarded hall around a coffered sanctuary; known for laughing Jizo.