Edo
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A late-Edo clothing store in Hirakata, Osaka: just 2 bays square, yet framed with heavy round logs and given a double plaster band on each gable. Registered 2017.
A late-Edo rice store in Hirakata, Osaka: a one-storey clay-walled building with a fire-sealed door canopy, two rooms and drip hoods on its gables. Registered 2017.
A late-Edo headman's farmhouse in Toyonaka, Osaka: 313 square meters with a nine-room raised floor and wide earthen floor, now used for concerts. Registered in 2008.
A late-Edo farmhouse in Hirakata, Osaka: a nine-bay core with a vast earthen floor, four-room raised floor, formal entrance and added guest rooms. Registered 2017.
A late-Edo gate in Toyonaka, Osaka, between the gatehouse and main house: 4.2 meters wide, with double board doors and eaves on bracket arms. Registered in 2008.
A late-Edo storehouse on the street in Toyonaka, Osaka, whose raised north roof makes one building look like two. Repaired after the 2018 quake, it now holds a café.
Built in 1839 at the north gate of Kaizuka's temple town in Osaka, this merchant house shows staggered gables and a corner cut away by a later road. Registered 2003.
A twenty-square-metre tatami parlour attached to an Osaka merchant house in Kaizuka's temple town, built to front a storehouse that is now gone. Registered 2003.
Katagiri Seiryudo Main House is a Bunka-era earth-plastered townhouse in Sakai, with a tearoom, altar room and the old shop attached. Registered 2000; closed inside.
Katagiri Seiryudo Middle Storehouse is a tall two-storey storehouse of 12 square metres in Sakai, said to date from the Kaei era; registered in 2000 as a model.
Katagiri Seiryudo West Storehouse was built in Osaka's Nipponbashi in the late Edo period, moved to Sakai in 1873 and now holds a kampo museum. Registered 2000.
Katagiri Seiryudo East Storehouse is a single-storey Kaei-era store on the north edge of a Sakai garden, its brick forecourt running into a Meiji work area.
Katagiri Seiryudo Marishisonten Shrine Sanctuary is a tiny guardian shrine of about 1814 in a Sakai garden, its shelter housing a one-bay nagare-zukuri hall.
The oldest storehouse on the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka: a mid-Edo, 2-storey clay-walled building joined to the kitchen wing, its roof carried on a ridge beam.
A rare late-Edo inner gatehouse joined in a T behind the front gate of the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka, splitting the guests’ forecourt from the household entry.
A mid-Edo reception hall on the Kaname headman estate in Kaizuka, Osaka, built for the domain lord, with a wide entrance step and no nageshi rails, out of frugality.
The 18-ken gatehouse fronting the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka: a later-Edo clay-walled nagayamon with formal and kitchen gates, rooms for the lord and a stable.
The smallest storehouse on the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka, read kanenotogura: a late-Edo building whose doorway stacks board, iron-plated and lattice doors.
A late-Edo storehouse on the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka, facing the Kanenoto Storehouse across a yard to form a U-shaped court; slate roof, tiled south face.
The late-Edo earthen wall around the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka: 222 metres of tile-capped clay with curved corners and a west gate, visible from the street.