Edo
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Built in 1687, Ie Udun Baka is the tomb of a Ryukyu royal branch family and a rare securely dated turtleback tomb, an Important Cultural Property since 1999.
Home of a Ryukyuan gentry family on Kume Island, built about 1754 inside limestone walls and fukugi trees. Designated in 1972; visits by advance reservation only.
On a quiet lane in Ishigaki, the Former Miyara Dunchi housed a family that governed a Ryukyu district. It is the only samurai residence with national designation.
The Former Waukei Family Tomb on Ishigaki sets a 17th-century cave burial chamber within walled limestone courts, an early form in Okinawan tomb design.
Founded in 1614 and rebuilt around 1786 after a tsunami, this Ishigaki shrine has carved peonies, demons, lions and dragons rarely seen on shrines elsewhere.
The Sesoko Toteikun on Sesoko Island, Okinawa, a shrine to the Chinese earth god from the late Edo period (1751–1829), is a walled coral-rock enclosure.
Tamaudun on Izena Island, Okinawa, is the 1688 gable-roofed stone tomb of Sho Shoku, father of King Sho En, designated in 2017. Free to visit, near Nakada Port.
Stone village spring of the later Edo period in Kiyuna, Ginowan, with men's and women's basins inside massive early 19th-century walls. Visits by appointment.
The Tuyumya Tombs in Hirara, Miyakojima, are three 18th- and 19th-century stone tombs of the Nakasone chieftain line, with tsunpun screens and notched roof posts.
A 177.5-meter coral-limestone wall in Maja, Kumejima, that once enclosed a Ryukyu district office, with two arched gates; an Important Cultural Property since 1972.
A late Edo house of 102 sq m at Ryukyu Mura in Onna, Okinawa, listed in 2007. Built in Shuri by the Yonabaru family, it has ground-level canopy eaves east and south.