Edo

The only structure and the only cypress-bark roof among the five: a 1.7-metre bracket gate with a carved kirin and flower-lattice doors, dividing two gardens.

An 1849 munamon gate on the south edge of a former sub-temple at Tonomine, Sakurai: thick zelkova posts, deep eaves and a roof re-covered in tile around 1985.

An 1850 sub-temple guest hall at Tonomine, Sakurai: nine rooms ringed by a corridor and veranda, a karahafu porch, and a Buddha's shrine hidden in the roof space.

An 1850 garden gate in an earthen wall at a former sub-temple at Tonomine, Sakurai: a light udekimon whose copper roof keeps the edge of its cypress-bark eaves.

The gate of Jokyoji on Sanjo-dori in Nara, a late Edo yakuimon gate under a tiled gabled roof, is carved with animals, plants, whorls and clouds on its struts.

A late Edo tool and document store joined to the Shoji main house in Ando, Nara: a 2-ken-square plastered storehouse with a floating tiled roof and double eave band.

Main house of the Shoji family, village officials in Ando, Nara: a late Edo Yamato-mune farmhouse with a shikidai entrance and alcove room, registered 2020.

The only late Edo-period building on the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara: a small storehouse joined to the tea room and corridor, with a detached oki-yane roof.

The detached guest rooms of the Tamaya inn before Taimadera in Katsuragi, Nara, a late Edo wing joined by a corridor, have a railed veranda and a calm air.

This late Edo townhouse in Naramachi, Nara, keeps its projecting eaves, udatsu fire walls and a large lattice window. Registered in 2012, it still sells Yamato tea.

At Chuguji in Ikaruga, Nara, this late Edo shoin hall has six rooms for receiving noble guests, one raised under a coffered ceiling. Registered 2006. Rarely open.

Tomi Shrine Worship Hall stands at the foot of the steps in Nara City. Dating from about 1799, it was built with nothing between its posts and no ceiling inside.

Tomi Shrine Main Hall in Nara City joins two kasuga-zukuri halls of 1824 through a shared floor and gutter, its framing painted red with polychrome brackets.

The main house of the Nakai Family Residence in Gose, Nara, built in 1792, faces the street with a black-plastered attic storey, white eaves and open lattice front.

Dated to 1855 by the wand set in its roof frame, the main house of Hirai Clinic in Gojo, Nara was registered in 2002. A smoke vent rides its long gabled ridge.

The 1855 storehouse behind Hirai Clinic in Gojo, Nara, carries a stepped ridge line: rice filled the eastern half of the building and raw cotton the western half.

The Fujioka Family Residence Inner Storehouse in Gojo, Nara, built in 1797, is the oldest on the site, with plaster carp on its gable and a literary gallery.

The Fujioka Family Residence Main House in Gojo, Nara, dates from 1832 and was registered in 2006. See the shop room with its merchant tools and the smoke vent.

The Fujioka Family Residence Tsuiji Wall in Gojo, Nara, is a late Edo earthen wall folding 78 metres around the compound, with a blue-green east face and a wicket.

The Fujioka Family Residence Detached Room in Gojo, Nara, is a late Edo retirement wing of two 6-mat rooms and a storeroom, with verandas on both sides.