Edo
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On the old Kishū highway in Izumisano, the Oku Family Residence preserves a 1727 main house, a long gatehouse and storehouses. Designated 1969; no regular opening.
The shoin of Kanshinji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, built in 1647, is the reception hall of the main residence, a hip-and-gable building of the early Edo period.
Gansenji in Kaizuka, Osaka, governed a self-ruling temple town and briefly headed Honganji. Its main hall, gate, and drum tower are Important Cultural Properties.
Kumata Shrine's First Hall in Osaka was built in 1690 for Kasuga Taisha in Nara and moved here in 1711, a single-bay kasuga-zukuri Important Cultural Property.
Six buildings of 1623 at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka survived the 1945 air raids and were designated together in 1954 as the only early Edo fabric on the grounds.
The former Sugiyama house in Tondabayashi, Osaka, home of a founding family later famous for sake, is the oldest townhouse of the temple town, early Edo in date.
The main hall of Daianji in Sakai, Osaka, a shoin-style building of the early Edo period rebuilt here in 1683, keeps Kano school wall paintings in its rooms.
An early Edo farmhouse in Kumatori, south Osaka, with one of the largest earthen-floored work spaces in the Kinki region. Designated in 1964, it is free to enter.
Maniin, a sub-temple of Kongo-ji in Kawachi-Nagano, Osaka, housed Emperor Go-Murakami from 1354. Its shoin was listed in 1965, its gate and walls in 2019.
Minase Shrine Tea House in Shimamoto, Osaka, an early Edo tea room called Toshinseki, fills each ceiling coffer with a lamp-wick plant. Open by reservation.
The Asano Family Residence Inui Storehouse is a late Edo storehouse in the northwest corner of the Asano estate in Yao, Osaka, with white plaster walls and tiling.
The Asano Family Residence Main House in Yao, Osaka, is a late Edo townhouse whose lattice front and mushiko-mado survive over a farmhouse plan. Registered 2004.
This tiny hall at Abe Oji Shrine in Osaka, from the late Edo period (1751 to 1830) and once the Otokoyama Hachiman main hall, is painted red with bright details.
Built in 1853, the Aritoshi Shrine Back Gate in Izumisano matches the front gate in size and colour, differing only in the ornament left off its post heads.
Built in 1861, the Aritoshi Shrine Votive Tablet Hall in Izumisano still displays painted tablets offered by local schools under its tall carved elevation.
Dated 1852 by its ridge tablet, the vermilion Aritoshi Shrine Front Gate is an uncommon case of a four-legged gate fronting a Shinto shrine in Izumisano.
Late Edo in date, the Aritoshi Shrine North Purification Pavilion in Izumisano carries far more carving than such shelters usually do, with pierced brackets.
A late Edo stone girder bridge of 3.9 metres, the Aritoshi Shrine Drum Bridge is the only one of the shrine's eleven registered properties that is not a building.
The Aritoshi Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Izumisano runs eleven bays in a single file, its roof framing left open, with a porch added in 1942.
Built in 1669 and moved whole to its present site in 1942, the Aritoshi Shrine Main Hall in Izumisano packs dense carving into a hall of just 6.6 square metres.