Edo
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A thatched late-Edo farmhouse south of Nagoya Station, built by the local yotsudate method, its garden pine said to model the old pine on the Nagoya Noh stage.
The Kamiya Family Residence Koan Teahouse in Nagoya is a late Edo tea room of 10 square metres, moved here in 1911, with timber said to come from Nagoya Castle.
The Kamiya Family Residence Hakuroken in Nagoya is a late Edo sukiya building of 78 square metres, combining a broad tea room with a tiny attached tea room.
Built in 1859 for a rice dealer and village headman in Okazaki, this registered merchant house sets a latticed townhouse front before a farmhouse plan of six rooms.
A ridge tag inside this 1859 storehouse in Okazaki names the same year and carpenter as the main house it faces. White plaster, boarding, a deep eave at the door.
The Former Isobe Family Residence Main Building faces Honmachi Street in Inuyama, Aichi. Built in the 1860s for a kimono merchant, registered in 2005. Free entry.
An Edo-period thatched farmhouse in Nisshin, Aichi, framed in the local yotsudate system. An ink inscription dated 1709 was found during repairs. Free entry.
The Former Ito Main Building in Handa, Aichi, registered in 2022, is a late Edo brewer's house where an open beamed work floor gives way to a formal eight-mat room.
The Former Ito Main Storehouse in Handa, Aichi, registered in 2022, is a late Edo earthen-walled store with tiled lattice work outside and zelkova columns within.
Three storehouses linked in a row behind a merchant house at Okoshi post town, raised between the late Edo period and the post-war years, with white plaster gables.
Dating from the late Edo period, this thick-walled storehouse in Ichinomiya, Aichi is the oldest of the nine buildings on a working wool mill site. Listed in 2020.
The 1830 kuri of Kozenji in Haguro, Inuyama, Aichi, a gabled tiled building whose exposed gable framing and raised smoke-vent roof stand out. Registered.
The great storehouse of Kokonoe Mirin in Hekinan, Aichi, a 1706 brewing store moved here in 1787, clad in black clapboard and still used to mature mirin.
Two late Edo clay-walled storehouses in Inuyama, Aichi, set at right angles and joined by a lean-to sheltering the sake pressing floor. Registered in 2005.
The 1847 guest wing of a brewing house in Inuyama, Aichi, with a formal entrance platform, a 15-mat hall and a room copied from the Zangetsu-tei. Registered in 2005.
A late Edo brewing complex in Inuyama, Aichi: an open shed for washing and steaming rice, backed by a three-story storehouse for koji and maturing. Listed 2005.
The smallest of seven registered Kojima buildings in Inuyama, Aichi: a late Edo storehouse of 37 square meters with stepped plaster surrounds. Registered in 2005.
A small late-Edo tea pavilion in a 400-year-old sake brewer's compound in Inuyama, its red bengara walls a registered piece of the old castle-town streetscape.
Zaigaji Temple Thirty-Three Kannon Hall in Toyokawa, Aichi, is a 21-square-meter hall of 1800, registered in 2014, enshrining thirty-three Kannon images.
Zaikaji Temple Main Hall, a registered Edo-period hall on a mountainside in Aichi, was rebuilt in 1823 by carpenter Okada Gozaemon and shelters a hidden Kannon.