Edo
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Built in 1773 for a senior village headman below Mt. Ryumon in Nara, this thatched Yoshino farmhouse keeps stopped door grooves and a formal entrance board.
A late Edo document storehouse in Yoshino, Nara, built to guard a village headman's papers from fire and damp with an air-gapped roof and interlocking doors.
A small late-Edo storehouse in the Ota brewery courtyard in Tatsuta, Ikaruga. Its sea-cucumber plaster and framed doorway show a care that earned its listing.
A long late-Edo shed at the Ota brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga, linking the old kitchen to the inner storehouse. One side is open, the other a boundary wall.
The main house of the Ota sake brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga. A roof-tile inscription dates it to 1829, a rare benchmark for dating the region's town houses.
A late-Edo tea room at the Ota brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga, behind the main house across a courtyard. Its three-mat plan and crawl-in door reveal the family's wealth.
The oldest of the 15 registered Okahashi buildings in Kashihara, Nara: a late Edo guest wing dividing garden from work yard, with a rare tokozashi ceiling. Private.
A late Edo storehouse at the northwest corner of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara, jutting onto the ancient Shimotsumichi road: white plaster over boarded walls.
A small late Edo storehouse behind the retirement rooms of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara, joined by an open copper-roofed corridor dividing two gardens.
The largest building of a merchant estate on the ancient Shimotsumichi road in Kashihara, Nara: a late Edo townhouse 20 metres wide, nine rooms behind stout lattice.
A late Edo bracket-arm gate on the ancient Shimotsumichi road in Kashihara, Nara, leading to a merchant family's retirement rooms, lattice door to the street.
A one-bay temple gate from Yakushi-in, a sub-temple of Todai-ji, moved to a Nara samurai house around 1942, with short eaves and a ceiling of reused shutter boards.
An 1856 samurai house in Nara's Tamoncho whose east half is original and whose tearoom, tatami rooms and reception wing were added in 1942 using old timbers.
A late Edo storehouse about 4 m square in Nara's Tamoncho, with eaves on three sides and well-kept lime plaster; moved by hikiya in 1942 and registered in 2006.
A 58 m late Edo earthen wall at a samurai house in Nara's Tamoncho, turning north beside the storehouse and stepping down the sloping west edge under a tiled coping.
The main gate of Kikusuiro in Nara, an Edo-period yakuimon said to have come from a sub-temple of Enjoji, 2.4 m wide with a heavy tiled roof; registered in 2000.
Beside the Main Building entrance of Kikusuiro in Nara, this Edo-period yakuimon from a temple is 1.9 m wide with pan tiles and leads to the garden; registered 2000.
The only building of the five listed as a model of design: a 307-square-metre range holding six guest rooms and a kitchen wing, with its 41 paintings now in Nara.
One late-Edo building holding two uses: a 6-mat parlor under a hipped roof and a storehouse with a separately framed roof, linked by a single narrow passage.
A late-Edo hall of 26 square metres, gable-fronted with a veranda on three sides and a smoke vent for the goma fire rite set into its coffered ceiling.