Edo
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The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Great Torii Gate is an early Edo stone torii at the south entrance in Osaka, 5.7 m wide and 6.4 m high, near the sacred rice paddy.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Middle Gate is a late Edo gate past the stone stage in Osaka; 5.3 m wide with a tiled roof and lively carving, the shrine's largest gate.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Mizugaki Gate is a late Edo four-legged gate behind the First Sanctuary in Osaka, traditional in form but carved with thick, bold lines.
The late-Edo priests' wing of a tiny urban temple in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002. A townhouse lattice window marks the terakoya where Kawaguchi Ekai studied.
A late-Edo Buddhist hall of just 24 square metres in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002. Its palace-form shrine cabinet marks a rare urban Shugendo survival.
A late-Edo gate only 1.7 metres wide in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002 as a model of design for the way its curved rafters and low walls order the street.
A late Edo farmhouse on the Takenouchi Kaido in Taishi, Osaka, under a yamatomune roof of thatch flanked by tiles, repaired and reopened in 2004. Registered in 2002.
A late-Edo house in Kaizuka's old temple town, registered in 2003. Its closed seven-bay front and a stout window facing Gansenji suggest a samurai or official.
A small late-Edo townhouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, registered in 2003. It stands on ground 60 cm higher than its 1932 neighbor, yet its low roof sits beneath that house.
Built in 1855 on the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu, this wing pairs a formal shikidai entrance with 10- and 8-mat rooms set at right angles. Not open to visitors.
The mid-Edo main house of the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu, a Kii-domain rest stop, spans 11 and a half by 7 bays around a vast earthen floor. Not open to visitors.
A headman-class farmhouse in Matsubara recorded as built in 1709, retiled with an attic added in the Tenpo era, and relocated in 2007. Still lived in; not open.
This late-Edo wall runs north from the Tanaka front gate along the old Kishu Kaido in Izumiotsu: 2.3 m high, 65 cm thick at the base, with an inuyarai guard below.
A Bunsei-era gatehouse in Matsubara, moved in 2007: 11 m by 4.0 m under a tiled hip-and-gable roof, with a lattice and yoriki windows. Seen from the street.
Built in 1823 on the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu, this small earthen granary held grain against famine for the village under a detached roof. Not open to visitors.
A single-bay yakuimon gate of 1751-1829 in Osaka's Shitadera-machi temple row, the only building at Choshin-ji to survive the 1945 air raids. Registered in 2008.
A late Edo earthen storehouse on a corner in Izumisano, trapezoidal because its walls follow two streets. A survivor of the shipping town's iroha warehouse rank.
An 1848 earthen-walled storehouse in central Osaka, remodelled in 1941 into the sencha tearoom Dokuraku, with a tiled earth floor and Chinese-patterned window bars.
Tsutsui Family Residence Main House in Sakai is a thatched house built as the office of a land reclamation; radiocarbon dating suggests it dates from around 1700.
Tsutsui Family Residence Zashiki Wing in Sakai began as family quarters and was remade as sukiya-style reception rooms reached clockwise through four rooms.