Edo
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Main building of the Kotanijō museum: a late-Edo home of the Kotani, village headmen. A copper-clad gabled wing meets a tiled reception hall and a stepped entrance.
At the east end of the front row, this late-Edo storehouse, once a rice store and now the exhibition room, is the only one of the five registered as a model of design.
The oldest of the museum's five buildings, this mid-Edo gate is said to have come from the Hakata domain around 1871. Its front has board doors and comb-shaped windows.
Built in 1828, the oldest of eight registered buildings on a Takatsuki farm, this small clay-walled kura joins a row of white-plastered storehouses facing the road.
A late Edo two-storey storehouse on a Takatsuki hill farmstead, its placed roof wrapped in lime plaster, standing between the gatehouse and an older kura.
Late Edo building on the west street of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: retirement rooms, a stable and a side gate, with two different roof ends.
Late Edo storehouse for household goods on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: tall, two storeys, no ornament, with rafters sealed in white plaster.
Late Edo guest wing of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: a formal alcove built with slim timbers and low ceilings, and landscapes by Kaneko Sesso.
Late Edo main house of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: earthen work floor, six rooms, slatted windows hiding a full upper floor, layered tiled roofs.
Late Edo storehouse at the corner of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: only 21 square meters, but with eaves and gable edges sealed in continuous plaster.
Late Edo walls of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: 105 meters in all, sealed in plaster around the garden, with an exposed frame at one corner.
Late Edo link building on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: two storeys at one end, one at the other, built to the standard of the main house.
Late Edo barn on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: a deep canopy on bracket arms and three rooms that held pickles, brushwood and farm tools.
Late Edo nagayamon gatehouse of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: hip-and-gable tiled roof, black plaster street front and a row of lattice windows.
A mid-Edo earthen wall running 103 metres along the Amano River at Kongoji, Kawachinagano. Plastered on a stone base, it once enclosed the east-bank sub-temples.
A mid-Edo former kitchen hall of the sub-temple Chuin in Kongoji's Honbo, Kawachinagano. It faces the garden, with three 8-mat rooms and a broad veranda.
A mid-Edo chapel from the sub-temple Chuin, now in Kongoji's Honbo garden in Kawachinagano. Three bays square, it has a pyramidal copper roof and a rear altar bay.
An 1859 entrance and reception suite joined to the main hall of Saikyoji in Izumi, Osaka. Its shikidai has a slatted transom and beams carved with waves and clouds.
A purification pavilion of around 1816 in the front garden of Saikyoji in Izumi, Osaka. Four inward-leaning posts and carved bracket arms frame a stone basin.
An 1808 Jodo Shinshu main hall in Izumi, Osaka, 15 metres wide, with an open outer hall and a raised sanctuary dressed in carving, colour and gold. Registered 2014.