Edo

Todaiji's Sanmaido, or Shigatsudo, a three-bay hall of 1681 with Kamakura timbers and a Heian Fugen on an elephant, now closed for seismic work from May 2025.

Todaiji's Middle Gate, a five-bay rōmon of 1714 in front of the Great Buddha Hall: why it followed the hall, when its doors open and the window view of the Buddha.

Todaiji's western Tozai Gakumon Gate, an eight-legged gate of 1719 in the Great Buddha Hall corridor: how it fits the Edo rebuilding, its form and how to view it.

Todaiji's eastern Tozai Gakumon Gate, built in 1722 in the Great Buddha Hall corridor, and how it compares with the Nara-period Tegaimon Gate of the same type.

Todaiji's Nigatsudo Hall, rebuilt in 1669 under the shogun Ietsuna: its stage over the slope, nested sanctuaries shaped by the Shunie and free 24-hour access.

An early-Edo farmhouse in Nara's Yoshino hills, Nishida House keeps medieval rafter framing and a front-parlor plan, named an Important Cultural Property in 1968.

The Horyuji Temple Western Precinct Earthen Walls, mostly rebuilt in 1697, run about 538 m in three sections linking the great gates; part of the west wall is older.

The Horyuji Temple Western Precinct Southwest Sub-Temple Walls are Edo-period earthen walls along the approach, linking the Saionin gates and Bathhouse Front Gate.

The Horyuji Temple Western Precinct Southeast Sub-Temple Walls are Edo-period earthen walls on the east of the approach, 285.6 m in two sections holding seven gates.

The Horyuji Temple Saionin Karamon Gate, an early Edo cypress-bark gate, opens off the approach to the Middle Gate beside the Agetsuchimon. How a hira-karamon works.

The Horyuji Temple Eastern Precinct Earthen Walls, built in 1696, are three tile-capped wall sections, about 211 m in all, linking older gates around the precinct.

A large mid-Edo farmhouse in Kashihara, Nara, with the oldest known yamato-mune roof, once the moated seat of a senior village headman. An Important Cultural Property.

Built in 1727 as Kasuga Taisha's fourth sanctuary and moved to this Yagyu village shrine in 1747, this one-bay kasuga-zukuri hall can be viewed at close range.

The Ritsugakuin Main Hall, built in 1627 outside Horyuji's Great East Gate, enshrines Prince Shotoku in a gable-fronted hall that closely follows the Shoryoin.

The main hall of Renchoji in central Nara, a Nichiren hall of 1653 open at the front, is brightly painted with maidens, dragons and phoenixes and little altered.

Kōriyama Castle in Nara, a National Historic Site, preserves walls built partly from reused Buddhist statues and an inverted Jizō, remains of a Toyotomi power base.

The Akahadayama Motogama Large Kiln in Nara is a late Edo brick climbing kiln, 18 m long with 8 chambers; repairs from 2015 showed it was rebuilt at least twice.

A two-storey storehouse of 1790 beside the Iioka main house in Uda, Nara, with a namako tile skirt, stepped-plaster doors and a trowelled lintel. Registered in 2010.

A late Edo thatched farmhouse in Uda, Nara, 19 by 11 metres, with a walled takabe gable on the south, a hipped north end and a six-room plan. Registered in 2010.

The formal gate of a senior headman's compound in Yoshino, Nara: a zelkova-framed yakuimon with a copper roof and twenty metres of plastered wall beside it.