Edo
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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.