Edo

The Horiuchi house in Shiojiri, Nagano, an 18th-century farmhouse designated in 1973, is a large, fine example of the honmune style, with a bold gable front.

Seven Takashima Domain lords lie beneath 3-meter stone markers above Lake Suwa, the founder in a vermilion mausoleum nearby. National Historic Site, 2017.

An 1859 earthen rice storehouse in Azumino, Nagano, extended in 1900, whose closed west wall forms the western face of the Iida brewer's estate, with okiyane roofs.

A late Edo honmune-zukuri house in Azumino, Nagano, 10 bays wide with a gable-end front, once roofed with stone-weighted boards and home to a sake-brewing family.

Standing north of the main house at Imai in Okaya, this mid-Edo board-walled store of 64 square metres sits on its own axis and may be the oldest building here.

Set against the east wall of the main house at Imai in Okaya, this late Edo well drops about 6 metres through stacked stone under a later timber canopy.

Facing the old Nakasendo at Imai in Okaya, this late Edo gate is a yakuimon 5.1 metres wide, with plank doors, a side wicket and a gently curved gabled roof.

Built in 1789 north-west of the main house at Imai in Okaya, this two-storey storehouse of 33 square metres has earthen doors and a raised roof of split stone.

Built in 1772 beside the old Nakasendo at Imai in Okaya, this single-storey house of 450 square metres sets a formal entrance bay before the gable-entered main body.

Built in 1861 beside the main house at Imai in Okaya, this two-storey storehouse of 33 square metres has thick earthen doors and a raised roof of split stone.

The Iwadare main house in Shiojiri, Nagano, a honmune farmhouse of 1836 with a crest ornament on its gable front, is valued as a dated example of the style.

The gate of Emyoji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1677, is a small tiled timber gate 2.1 metres wide and the oldest of the temple's three registered structures.

The bell tower of Emyoji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1833, is a two-storey tower with leaning posts and a ground floor dressed to look like a flared skirt.

The main hall of Emyoji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1833, is a pent-roofed Buddha hall in the Obaku Zen manner with panelled doors and cusped windows.

A mid-18th-century thatched farmhouse in Okaya, Nagano, with an earth-floored work area in front and living rooms behind, home of silk pioneer Katakura Kanetaro.

A late Edo merchant house on the old Ina Highway in Miyada, Nagano, where a single unbroken roof covers both the dwelling and its soy sauce brewing storehouse.

The oldest of the four Ozawa buildings, this late-Edo storehouse in Matsumoto's Hofukuji town turns its gable to the old road, its base clad in namako-kabe tiling.

The former Kitazawa house in Yasaka, Omachi, Nagano, a broad thatched headman's home of about 1849 with a massive beamed earth floor, anchors its hill village.

The main house of Kumeya, the late Edo wakihonjin of Komoro on the Hokkoku Kaido, keeps a gabled shikidai entrance and an earthen hall now open as a tea room.

The detached reception wing of Kumeya, the late Edo wakihonjin of Komoro, has four rooms and a formal main room with a carved transom of the Seven Sages.