Edo

A church of 1864 at Minamiyamate in Nagasaki, the oldest surviving in Japan. Altered from three aisles to five in 1879, it keeps its original core within.

An early Edo-period gate in Nagasaki Prefecture. Its timbers were cut in China and were carried over there divided among several separate vessels at once.

An early Edo-period hall in Nagasaki Prefecture. Its upper storey came some decades later on, and it follows a different tradition from the lower one.

Discover the Essel Telegraaf, the only surviving domestically-made telegraph from Japan's Edo period. Housed at Isahaya Museum of Art & History in Nagasaki Prefecture, this Important Cultural Property reveals how late-Edo innovators adapted Dutch technology.

The main hall of Kiyomizudera in Nagasaki, built in 1668 with funds from the Chinese merchant He Gaocai, has an open aisle and Obaku-style details unusual in Japan.

The Saiwai Bridge at Hirado Port, Nagasaki, a stone arch of 1702 built by local masons for the lord of Hirado, carries the skills of the town's trading-port days.

A gabled, tile-roofed late-Edo farmhouse in Tsutsu on southern Tsushima, designated an Important Cultural Property in 1969 for its regional plan and frame.

An Important Cultural Property of 1731 at Nagasaki's Sōfukuji, where Kannon, the deified general Guan Yu, and the guardian Idaten share one Ōbaku-style hall.

Sōfukuji's vermilion outer gate in Nagasaki, rebuilt in 1849 by Japanese carpenters. The Dragon Palace Gate is the temple's most Chinese-looking building.

Built in 1728 at Nagasaki's Sofukuji temple, this two-story tower holds both a bell and a drum. Its frame is Chinese carpentry; its roof follows Japanese design.

Built in 1666, the Maso Gate of Sōfukuji temple in Nagasaki leads to the hall of Maso, the Chinese sea goddess once enshrined there by visiting trading ships.

A mid-Edo thatched farmhouse in Nagasaki City, an Important Cultural Property since 1969, with a three-room plan and thought to be the oldest in the prefecture.

The Inohara Hardware Store Main Building in Shimabara joins an 1861 townhouse to a late-Meiji wing. Registered in 2003, it trades on, spring water at the door.

This late Edo shop and house fronts the old road at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, with a hip-and-gable front, a gabled rear wing and beams over the doma.

Beside the Honkura at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, this late Edo brewhouse survived the 1879 fire and its roof carries on over the lane between them.

Probably the oldest building at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, this late Edo brewhouse opens off the shop floor and carries its roof on doubled tie beams.

The Uchino Family Residence Stone Steps in Hirado are a straight late-Edo flight of ten steps, 3.6 m wide, built of long sandstone slabs edged with natural stones.

Along a Hirado street, the Uchino Family Residence Gate and Wall pairs a 43 m plastered wall on late-Edo stonework with concrete gateposts remade around 1926.

Umegae Sake Brewery Former Brewing Storehouse in Sasebo is a late Edo earthen shed of 264 square meters, extended twice and braced inside, where sake mash fermented.

Umegae Sake Brewery Former Muro in Sasebo hides a brick chamber inside a late Edo timber building; its roof merges with the brewing storehouse next door.