Edo

Forty-seven items at the Sendai City Museum, brought back from Europe by Hasekura Tsunenaga, envoy of the lord of the Sendai domain to Spain and to Rome.

The Agatsuma Family Residence in Zao, Miyagi, is a 1753 thatched farmstead with three storehouses, protected with its gate and lot and open on third Sundays.

Thatched farmhouse of the later Edo period in the grounds of Kozoji, Kakuda, Miyagi, with a three-room plan, a large earth floor and thick posts; free to visit.

Shiogama Shrine in Miyagi keeps fourteen buildings and a torii, from worship halls of 1663 to the three main halls completed in 1704 by the Date lords of Sendai.

A late Edo thatched farmhouse designated an Important Cultural Property in 1974, the Former Nakazawa Residence in Natori keeps the local four-room plan.

Horaguchi Family Residence in Natori, Miyagi: a Horeki-era farmhouse ringed by a ditch and igune windbreak, designated in 1971, with named posts in its earth floor.

The Matsumoto Family Residence in Kami, Miyagi, housed retainers to the Date lords' vassals. Its living and kitchen blocks stand apart beneath one thatched roof.

Enunkan Garden, named a national Place of Scenic Beauty in 2018, is a 17th-century stroll garden above Kesennuma Bay kept by the Ayukai family of the Sendai Domain.

The former sake brewery of Ebiki in Toyoma, Tome, Miyagi, a long late Edo store used for sake until 1908, has triple tie-beam frames and a shelf for the sake god.

The bunko storehouse of Ebiki in Toyoma, Tome, Miyagi, a late Edo store, has namako walls in two patterns and window canopies with pierced panels and carved corbels.

The miso and soy-sauce store of Ebiki in Toyoma, Tome, Miyagi, the oldest building on the site, is a late Edo store whose curved beams leave room for brewing.

Turret gate of the late Edo period at Enmeiji in Shiroishi, Miyagi, said to be Shiroishi Castle's Umayaguchi Gate, moved around 1874; a rare castle relic.

Built between 1830 and 1868 in Kurihara, Miyagi, this thatched farmhouse keeps a regular four-room plan, with an alcove and sao-buchi ceiling in its formal room.

The Sairi Yashiki Shop Storehouse in Marumori, Miyagi, is an 1848 fireproof merchant storehouse with namako-kabe walls and plaster fire doors, now the reception.

Built between 1830 and 1867 in Kami Town, Miyagi, this farmhouse keeps its staggered four-room plan and massive kitchen beams. Registered in 2002; now a restaurant.

The main hall of Toshinji in Shiroishi, Miyagi, built in 1831 south-east of the castle town, has a typical Jodo-school plan and openwork carvings on its porch.

A two-story earthen-walled storehouse on the Matsuya property in Furukawa, Ōsaki. Late Edo in date, it is the site's oldest building, noted for its plasterwork.

A mid-Edo farmhouse in Ishinomori, Tome, Miyagi: nine bays long, hipped roof, a staggered four-room plan and bent beams over the earthen floor. Registered in 2006.

A large mid-19th-century hipped-roof farmhouse in Naruko Onsen, Miyagi, keeping the old local plan of a broad earthen floor with an indoor stable. Registered 1997.