Edo
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Facing the road at the corner of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo gatehouse has an attendants' room, a storeroom and a hip-and-gable roof of heavy tiles.
On a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo storehouse was set aside for imported goods such as sugar. Its roof rests on two beams of naturally curved timber.
Joined to the gate of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo tool storehouse shows a white wall and two upper windows to the road under a detached tiled roof.
Leaning on a storehouse wall on a Matsubara headman's estate, this 8-square-meter servants' rest room keeps a small roof that once led to a vanished storehouse.
Following a stone-lined water channel around a Matsubara headman's estate, this 57-meter tiled wall changes its outer finish from black plaster to boards and earth.
This late Edo bath building on a Matsubara headman's estate uses polished logs and open roof framing, with a shoji-lit dressing room and a hot-water doorway.
This small Edo-period guest lodge on a Matsubara headman's estate is where the family is said to have hosted the Osaka poet Hirose Kyokuso and loyalist activists.
Late Edo main house of a Kawachi cotton merchant in Yao, Osaka, under a yamatomune roof of thatch and tile; part became a post office in 1876. Registered in 2019.
Late Edo storehouse for household goods at a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka: 19 sq m, 3 plaster bands under the eaves, ship planks below. Listed 2019.
Late Edo storehouse where a Yao cotton merchant kept Kawachi cotton: ship planks on the street side, open lean-to facing the courtyard, sloping beams. Listed 2019.
The late Edo treatment building of an acupuncture house in Osaka, with a steep gable, aisle roofs and four rooms behind an earth-floored passage. Registered in 2019.
The Hiroumi Family Residence Living Room Storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, is a late-Edo storehouse linked to the reception rooms by a passage and used for tea wares.
The Hiroumi Family Residence Lower Storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, is a late-Edo storehouse split in two inside, with a door at each end and a ridge-beam roof frame.
The Hiroumi Family Residence Main House in Kaizuka, Osaka, is an 1861 merchant home 18 and a half ken wide, with heavy beams over its earth-floored work area.
The Hiroumi Family Residence Middle Storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, is a tiny two-storey storehouse said to be the oldest on the site, older than the 1861 main house.
At the northwest corner of the Fujii estate in Higashiosaka stands a late-Edo tool storehouse, 5.9 metres of earthen wall under formal round-and-flat tile.
The Fujii main gate in Higashiosaka pairs keyaki doors with an attendants' waiting room, joining the Inui-gura storehouse to form one composed street elevation.
Sixty-one metres of tile-capped earthen wall run the eastern edge of the Fujii estate to meet the main gate, pierced only by one modest bracketed side gate.
A 13-square-metre earthen storehouse joined to a merchant house in Hirano, Osaka, registered in 2015 and apparently cut back after an 1895 geomancy reading.
The Fujimoto Family Residence Clothing Storehouse is a late Edo earthen store in Fujiidera, Osaka, its west wall continuing the main house wall. Registered 2006.