Edo

Early Edo in date and open on all four sides, the 5.8 metre square Aritoshi Shrine Dance Hall in Izumisano serves each year as a stage for torchlit Noh.

A late Edo farmhouse in Fukae, Osaka, with a two-level roof, a four-room plan and a suspended Buddhist altar that the Agency ties to floods. Registered 2023.

The nagayamon at the entrance to Kobayashi Ichizo's Ikeda villa is a late-Edo long-house gate, said to have been relocated here in 1936 from a village headman's estate.

A late Edo storehouse for rice and oil at the corner of a headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka, with a loading door opening onto the moat that runs along the estate.

A late Edo utensil store at a headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka, clad in tall boards on the street side like the adjoining wall, and plastered white inside.

A late Edo headman's farmhouse in Takaishi, Osaka, 268 square meters, with a thatched living end, a tiled end with a low loft and archaic beams over its earth floor.

A late Edo tea room joined to a headman's house in Takaishi, Osaka: two tatami rooms with alcoves and shelves, a bark-edged alcove post and a light pantile roof.

The gatehouse of a late Edo headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka: a tiled hip-and-gable roof, grey plaster walls, a latticed window and side rooms that open inward.

A two-storey farmhouse of 1830 to 1867 in Tondabayashi, Osaka, with an earth-floored kitchen, an old cooking range and a Taisho-era roof. Registered 2008; not open.

A late-Edo machiya in Kaizuka, Osaka, said to date from after the 1854 Ansei earthquake: single-storey, 374 square meters, with heavy beams over its earthen floor.

A late-Edo 2-storey storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, where the Uno family kept kyogen costumes for torchlit Noh at Gansenji temple. Registered 2003, 26 square meters.

Late Edo main house of Ozone's headman family in Toyonaka: 271 square metres under a hip-and-gable tiled roof, with a formal entrance and latticed accounts office.

A small late Edo storehouse on the Ebara compound in Toyonaka, 4.7 by 3.8 metres, its lime plaster carried up under the eaves and accented in black. Not open.

Middle storehouse of the Ebara compound in Toyonaka, 6.8 by 3.9 metres, with a plaster band below the eaves and dense framing that marks it as a former rice store.

A late Edo storehouse at the northwest corner of the Ebara compound in Toyonaka, 4.9 by 4.0 metres, unusual for its veranda, lean-to roof and covered passage.

A late Edo guest wing behind the main house of Ozone's headman family in Toyonaka: an eight-mat room with alcove, openwork transoms and a tea-house-style veranda.

Late-Edo North Storehouse of the Okamoto family in Kaizuka, Osaka: 6 ken long, one room inside, doors on two sides and a link to the Zashiki. Registered in 2003.

The Okamoto soy brewers' mid-Edo townhouse faces Oshita-suji in Kaizuka with a 6-ken frontage. A ridge tag dates its rear wing to 1841; it was registered in 2003.

Westernmost of three Okamoto storehouses in Kaizuka, Osaka, dated by a ridge tag to 1857, it alone keeps its traditional tile roof. Registered 2003; exterior only.

Central Okamoto storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, said to date from 1716 to 1736; its old timbers and a later altar room built around it support that. Slate roof now.