Edo

Built in the late Edo period as Imamiya Shrine's mikoshi house and moved in 1926 to the north-east corner, this Kyoto storehouse has a big carved strut in its gable.

The 1842 worship pavilion and fence of Jishusha at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto draw a sacred boundary through the pavilion's centre with lattice doors and extend it.

Built in 1842 on a rise at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the Jishusha Main Hall is a rare two-bay shrine whose veranda rests on bracketing usually seen on gate towers.

The Taishogunsha at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, built around 1695, joins a tiny sanctuary to its worship pavilion with a shelf and three wooden steps, a rare layout.

Built in 1694 near the Tower Gate of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the small Temizuya Pavilion faces the East Gate path and carries two tiers of richly carved struts.

Built in 1694 during Keishoin's rebuilding, the open-sided Imamiya Shrine Worship Hall in Kyoto survived the 1896 fire and still anchors the axis of the shrine.

The late Edo Hachimansha at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto covers just 0.9 square metres, yet splits its sanctum with an open front room and carries finely worked brackets.

Built around 1694 at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the Hassha gathers eight auxiliary shrines into one eight-bay building, a record of the Genroku-era reorganisation.

At the south end of the small-shrine row at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the late Edo Hiyoshisha splits its tiny sanctum into two rooms and dresses its canopy richly.

Built around 1694 in a corner of Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto, the small Munakatasha stands on a stone base carved with a catfish and packs in varied bracketing.

The 1694 Wakamiyasha Worship Hall at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto is a one-bay open pavilion with a coffered ceiling, a small echo of the shrine's main worship hall.

Built in 1694, the Imamiya Shrine Wakamiyasha Main Hall in Kyoto, a shrine for the blessing of children, joins two Kasuga-style roofs with ridges linked in an H.

The 1694 gate and openwork fence of Wakamiyasha at Imamiya Shrine in Kyoto enclose the sanctuary with a stepped tiled gate roof and 26 metres of diamond lattice.

Late Edo town house of the Ogawa Bunsai potters on Gojozaka, Kyoto, with a projecting-beam front, two kinds of upper lattice and an alcoved room behind.

Small late Edo storehouse at the Ogawa Bunsai potters' house on Gojozaka, Kyoto, two bays square and carefully plastered, adding charm to the back garden.

Facing the Tanba Kaido in Nagaokakyo, this late Edo farmhouse is 13 m wide, with deep lean-to eaves on three sides and an altar room and reception room to the north.

Around the garden of the Kawai estate in Nagaokakyo, a late Edo earthen wall of 10 m on piled stones, plastered white and tiled, is kept low to save a far hill view.

In a corner of the Kawai estate in Nagaokakyo, this late Edo storehouse of 4.9 by 3.9 m has a separate okiyane roof, lime plaster and tall boarding on its west wall.

A late Edo horse stable at the front of the Ueno headman's compound in Maizuru, built in clay like a storehouse, with board-clad walls and small gable windows.

A thatched hip-and-gable farmhouse of the 1830s in Maizuru, ringed by tiled pent roofs, with a formal shikidai entrance and a projecting guest room for officials.