Edo
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Umegae Sake Brewery Residence is a late Edo annex in Sasebo: three tatami rooms, a tokonoma, and a veranda and earthen eave opening to a garden. It is registered.
Umegae Sake Brewery Main House, built in 1860 in Sasebo, was the brewer's home and office. Its earthen-floored front is now a tasting room open without booking.
Umegae Sake Brewery Bottling Plant in Sasebo joins a one-story and a two-story earthen wing in an L; its late Edo ground floor is still used for shipping sake.
Umegayatsu Inari Shrine (1833) in Hirado pairs a small stone sanctuary with a stone torii, both dated, and serves as station four of the Hirado Island pilgrimage.
Umegayatsu Kairakuen Stone Wall (1839) in Hirado runs 97 meters below the villa, shifting from dry-laid stone to boulders and 5-meter rubble as it frames the garden.
Umegayatsu Kairakuen Stone Fence and Stone Steps (1839) led guests down from the hill to the house, the 11-meter steps curving at the foot beside a two-method fence.
Umegayatsu Kairakuen Main House, an 1839 villa of Hirado lord Matsura Hiromu, steps down its hillside to open onto the sea, with a tea room tucked on the hill side.
A late-Edo wall of grey, pink and blue Shimabara stone laid in a tortoiseshell pattern, 98.7 meters long around a samurai estate. Registered 2012; seen from outside.
A plain late-Edo yakuimon gate, 2.6 meters wide, whose heavy posts and tie beams frame the entry to a Shimabara samurai estate. Registered 2012; seen from the road.
Senkinko, an earthen storehouse at the Matsura Historical Museum in Hirado, Nagasaki, was registered in 2014. Its raised floor fits a castle-origin tradition.
The gate and stone wall of the Tsutsumiuchi Residence in Shimabara, Nagasaki, pair late Edo andesite masonry with Taisho gate posts. Visible from the street.