Edo

Nagano · 江戸

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Hiramatsu Family Residence Kurumaya (Former Water Mill)
Nagano 江戸
Hiramatsu Family Residence Kurumaya (Former Water Mill)

A late Edo single-storey shed in Obuse, Nagano, once a water mill, with a tiled gable roof swept down into a lean-to. It ends a roadside row of 3 buildings.

Hiramatsu Family Residence Main House
Nagano 江戸
Hiramatsu Family Residence Main House

A late Edo farmhouse in Obuse, Nagano, 23.4 m long, with a thatched hipped roof and a tiled east wing. Its four-room plan grew a guest suite. Registered in 2011.

Hiramatsu Family Residence South Storehouse
Nagano 江戸
Hiramatsu Family Residence South Storehouse

A late Edo two-storey storehouse on the road frontage in Obuse, Nagano, left at its clay coat, whose north doorway has a fire door, a timber door and a lattice door.

Hozoji Temple Priests' Quarters
Nagano 江戸
Hozoji Temple Priests' Quarters

Hozoji Temple Priests' Quarters in Azumino is a mid-Edo kuri moved from the closed Anrakuji temple in the Meiji era, with a cusped gable porch and white walls.

Hozoji Temple Shoin
Nagano 江戸
Hozoji Temple Shoin

Hozoji Temple Shoin in Azumino is a small mid-Edo reception hall with two 10-mat rooms, an alcove, shelves and a writing bay, carefully built of fine timber.

Hozoji Temple Bell Tower Gate
Nagano 江戸
Hozoji Temple Bell Tower Gate

Hozoji Temple Bell Tower Gate in Azumino is a two-story gate built around 1793, with a bronze bell under a coffered ceiling, likely by an Osumi-school builder.

Hozoji Temple Storehouse
Nagano 江戸
Hozoji Temple Storehouse

Hozoji Temple Storehouse in Azumino is a clay-walled storehouse dated to 1854 by ink on its ridge beam, with a floating roof and a walled lean-to on its north side.

Minakata Power Station Main Building
Nagano 江戸
Minakata Power Station Main Building

Completed in 1929 on the Tenryu River and registered in 2025, this concrete power house in Nakagawa Village ranges tall arched windows along its generator hall.

Muryoji Temple Priests' Quarters
Nagano 江戸
Muryoji Temple Priests' Quarters

Muryoji Temple Priests' Quarters, Matsumoto: rebuilt with the main hall in 1810 to 1812, a long thatched building of 337 m2 linked to the hall by a porched corridor.

Muryoji Temple Shuryo (Monks' Dormitory)
Nagano 江戸
Muryoji Temple Shuryo (Monks' Dormitory)

Muryoji Temple Shuryo, Matsumoto: a monks' dormitory with a hipped roof once thatched in wheat straw, a central passage and rooms on each side, built in late Edo.

Muryoji Temple Bell Tower
Nagano 江戸
Muryoji Temple Bell Tower

Muryoji Temple Bell Tower, Matsumoto: a small belfry of 1815 by carpenter Miyashita Jiroshichi, with leaning octagonal posts, a railing and carved gable brackets.

Muryoji Temple Treasure Hall
Nagano 江戸
Muryoji Temple Treasure Hall

Muryoji Temple Treasure Hall, Matsumoto: a two-storey fireproof storehouse of 1830 with namako tile skirting on all sides, a plaster eaves band and framed openings.

Muryoji Temple Main Hall
Nagano 江戸
Muryoji Temple Main Hall

Muryoji Temple Main Hall in Matsumoto, rebuilt 1810 to 1812 after a fire: a hipped thatched hall with tall posts, deep outrigger eaves and carvings at its sanctuary.

Myotokuji Temple Main Gate
Nagano 江戸
Myotokuji Temple Main Gate

The gate of Myotokuji near Matsushiro, Nagano City, a two-storey bell-tower gate of about 1713 with cusped windows, rises above the stone steps of the approach.

Myotokuji Temple Main Hall
Nagano 江戸
Myotokuji Temple Main Hall

The main hall of Myotokuji near Matsushiro, Nagano City, a thatched Soto Zen hall of about 1713, raises a tall box ridge over the typical six-room plan.

Yamada Ryokan Main Building
Nagano 江戸
Yamada Ryokan Main Building

The Yamada Ryokan Main Building at Otari Onsen: a late-Edo three-storey timber inn wing with stacked galleries, extended in 1884 and registered in 2001.

Yamada Ryokan Yakushido
Nagano 江戸
Yamada Ryokan Yakushido

The Yamada Ryokan Yakushido, a small late-Edo hall at Otari Onsen enshrining the Buddha of healing, shows that spa guests needed a place to pray; registered in 2001.

Raku Ware Tea Bowl with White Partial Glaze Change (known as Fujisan, by Koetsu)
Nagano 江戸
Raku Ware Tea Bowl with White Partial Glaze Change (known as Fujisan, by Koetsu)

Hon'ami Kōetsu's Raku bowl Fujisan, white above and dark below like snow-capped Mount Fuji, is a National Treasure rarely shown at Sunritz Hattori Museum, Lake Suwa.

Atsuta Shrine Main Hall
Nagano 江戸後期
Atsuta Shrine Main Hall

Oyamada Shrine
Nagano 江戸後期
Oyamada Shrine