Edo

Nagano · 江戸

Browse Nagano’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

241 total Nagano Edo Period 1603 – 1868
Showing 81 – 100 of 241
Zenzanji Temple Main Gate
Nagano 江戸
Zenzanji Temple Main Gate

Zenzanji Temple Main Gate in Ueda, Nagano, is a late-Edo thatched gate 2.7 metres wide at the top of stone steps, moved here in 1933 and registered in 2024.

Zenzanji Temple Main Hall
Nagano 江戸
Zenzanji Temple Main Hall

Zenzanji Temple Main Hall in Ueda, Nagano, is a mid-Edo thatched hall of 267 square metres with a dragon-carved porch, registered as a cultural property in 2024.

Takizawa Family Residence Main Building
Nagano 江戸
Takizawa Family Residence Main Building

The main house of the Takizawa Residence in Chikuma, Nagano, is a 333-square-meter mid-Edo thatched farmhouse. Registered in 2017, it has no central pillar at all.

Takizawa Family Residence Storehouse
Nagano 江戸
Takizawa Family Residence Storehouse

North of the main house at the Takizawa Residence in Chikuma, Nagano, stands a late-Edo storehouse with a separate okiyane roof and torii-waku framing its openings.

Takizawa Family Residence Nagayamon Gate
Nagano 江戸
Takizawa Family Residence Nagayamon Gate

The gatehouse of the Takizawa Residence in Chikuma, Nagano, is a late-Edo thatched nagayamon: hipped at the south end, gabled at the north, following its use below.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence
Nagano 江戸
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence

The largest building at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, a long dozo storehouse with a monitor roof and three gabled dormers, tied to the founding of the house in 1868.

Inner Drawing Room of the Takeshige Honke Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence
Nagano 江戸
Inner Drawing Room of the Takeshige Honke Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence

The late-Edo reception room of the earlier Takeshige house in Motai, kept at the rebuilding and joined to the present Main House. Listed as a model of its form.

Takeshige Honke Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence
Nagano 江戸
Takeshige Honke Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence

A timber charcoal shed across the road at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, said to reuse part of the old main house moved here in 1909, holding the Nakasendo streetline.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence West Storehouse
Nagano 江戸
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence West Storehouse

A late-Edo single-storey earthen storehouse eleven bays long, raised on a terrace beside the old Nakasendo in Motai, whose white wall shapes the post town's street.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence East Storehouse
Nagano 江戸
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence East Storehouse

A late-Edo two-storey rice cellar with a set-on roof, standing on the stone embankment where the Nakasendo water channel turns the corner of a Nagano brewery estate.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence Shop
Nagano 江戸
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence Shop

A late-Edo building twelve bays long beside the Nakasendo water channel in Motai, with a two-storey plastered core, a gate in its western bays and a latticed front.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence Gate Row House
Nagano 江戸
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence Gate Row House

The late-Edo gate building between the east storehouse and the shop on the old Nakasendo in Motai, its cedar ball and latticed white front the best-known view here.

Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence Household Shrine Torii
Nagano 江戸
Takeshige Honke Sake Brewery and Takeshige Family Residence Household Shrine Torii

A stone torii of 1827 before a Nagano brewer's household shrine, 2.3 metres tall, of the Inari type with collar rings, a flat top rail and unusual two-tiered bases.

Tanaka Honke Museum Kamaba Storehouse
Nagano 江戸
Tanaka Honke Museum Kamaba Storehouse

On the south edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this later Edo kura held the rice-steaming kettles of the brewery, its ridge topped by a smoke vent.

Tanaka Honke Museum Sake Brewery
Nagano 江戸
Tanaka Honke Museum Sake Brewery

Built after a 1790 fire, this 31 m brewing storehouse on the south edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, is the largest and oldest of its registered kura.

Tanaka Honke Museum New Storehouse
Nagano 江戸
Tanaka Honke Museum New Storehouse

Called "new" but dated to the late Edo period, this two-storey kura on the north edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, has a roof lined with heavy boards.

Tanaka Honke Museum Corner Storehouse
Nagano 江戸
Tanaka Honke Museum Corner Storehouse

At the northwest corner of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this small late Edo kura with a hipped roof turns the corner between two long rows of storehouses.

Tanaka Honke Museum Archive Storehouse
Nagano 江戸
Tanaka Honke Museum Archive Storehouse

In the northwest of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo three-storey kura for documents has a hip-and-gable west end and clay shutters on its windows.

Tanaka Honke Museum Rice Storehouse
Nagano 江戸
Tanaka Honke Museum Rice Storehouse

At the southwest corner of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo kura stored grain in two rooms and anchors the storehouse rows running north and east.

Tanaka Honke Museum Gate Storehouse
Nagano 江戸
Tanaka Honke Museum Gate Storehouse

On the street front of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo single-storey kura links the Front Gate to the Rice Storehouse in an unbroken white wall.