Edo
Mie · 江戸Browse Mie’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
A middle Edo-period hall in Mie Prefecture. Zen in its outward appearance, it nonetheless keeps the plan usual to a Shin Buddhist main hall inside it.
A middle Edo-period hall in Mie Prefecture. Nine bays in each direction, it has the largest square plan met among all of the buildings covered so far.
An Edo-period Buddhist temple main hall in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture. Two other listed halls elsewhere in Japan carry this very same name here as well.
The surviving buildings of a domain school founded in Iga in 1821 as a branch of the Tsu academy Yuzokan. Designated a Historic Site in 1930 and open to visitors.
Eleven Edo-period items held at Ise in Mie Prefecture, Japan. The contents of this group there are counted in four quite different measures even today.
Early 17th-century guest hall of Keikoin, the convent that revived the Ise Jingu rebuilding, on Oharai-machi in Ise; a rare shuden-style hall, open each November 3.
Built in 1863 for samurai guarding Matsusaka Castle, two row houses face each other across a hedged lane in Mie, the largest of their kind, still lived in today.
A late Edo-period gatehouse on Nakanotachimachi-dori in Iga: 15 meters long, hip-and-gable pantile roof, clapboard and plaster front. A rare samurai-house survivor.
The Juenro of Asakichi Ryokan in Ise, registered in 2005, pairs 3-storey and 2-storey blocks, with a 21-mat room at the top. Geisha reached it by an outer gallery.
The Storehouse of Asakichi Ryokan in Ise, registered in 2005, is a 3-storey dozo whose ridge follows a bending lane. Its door opens level with the second floor.
The Main Building of Asakichi Ryokan in Ise, registered in 2005, is a late Edo inn on a slope. Its front door opens on the third floor and its roofs step uphill.
The Front Storehouse of Asakichi Ryokan in Ise, registered in 2005, is a small dozo across the lane, linked to the inn's third floor by a corridor over the lane.
An earthen-walled store of the Tempo era at the deepest point of a merchant plot in Ise, with a west-facing door. Registered as a Cultural Property in 2001.
An 1835 clothing store in Ise, dated by an ink inscription on its ridge beam and the oldest building of the compound. Registered as a Cultural Property in 2001.
An 1867 storehouse in Ise at the east end of three facing the Seta River, its plan a rhombus because the plot refuses to square up. Registered in 2001.
The Umeda Family Residence Front Storehouse is an 1866 storehouse on the Hase Kaido in Nabari, Mie, registered in 2012, with tortoise-shell stone and tiled walls.
The Umeda Family Residence Main House is an 1866 townhouse on the Hase Kaido in Nabari, Mie, registered in 2012. Its low front has lattices and slot windows.
The Umeda Family Residence Middle Storehouse is an 1866 storehouse at the back of a townhouse in Nabari, Mie, registered in 2012, facing the inner garden.
The Umeda Family Residence Connecting Corridor is an 1866 passage from house to storehouse in Nabari, Mie, registered in 2012, with log posts facing a garden.
The Kadoya Ryokan in Tsu, Mie, a late Edo inn on the old Ise Betsu Kaido highway, keeps its lift-up shutters, projecting lattices and upstairs guest rooms.