Edo
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The Horyuji Temple Western Precinct Southeast Sub-Temple Walls are Edo-period earthen walls on the east of the approach, 285.6 m in two sections holding seven gates.
The Horyuji Temple Saionin Karamon Gate, an early Edo cypress-bark gate, opens off the approach to the Middle Gate beside the Agetsuchimon. How a hira-karamon works.
The Horyuji Temple Eastern Precinct Earthen Walls, built in 1696, are three tile-capped wall sections, about 211 m in all, linking older gates around the precinct.
A large mid-Edo farmhouse in Kashihara, Nara, with the oldest known yamato-mune roof, once the moated seat of a senior village headman. An Important Cultural Property.
Built in 1727 as Kasuga Taisha's fourth sanctuary and moved to this Yagyu village shrine in 1747, this one-bay kasuga-zukuri hall can be viewed at close range.
The Ritsugakuin Main Hall, built in 1627 outside Horyuji's Great East Gate, enshrines Prince Shotoku in a gable-fronted hall that closely follows the Shoryoin.
The main hall of Renchoji in central Nara, a Nichiren hall of 1653 open at the front, is brightly painted with maidens, dragons and phoenixes and little altered.
Kōriyama Castle in Nara, a National Historic Site, preserves walls built partly from reused Buddhist statues and an inverted Jizō, remains of a Toyotomi power base.
The Akahadayama Motogama Large Kiln in Nara is a late Edo brick climbing kiln, 18 m long with 8 chambers; repairs from 2015 showed it was rebuilt at least twice.
A two-storey storehouse of 1790 beside the Iioka main house in Uda, Nara, with a namako tile skirt, stepped-plaster doors and a trowelled lintel. Registered in 2010.
A late Edo thatched farmhouse in Uda, Nara, 19 by 11 metres, with a walled takabe gable on the south, a hipped north end and a six-room plan. Registered in 2010.
The formal gate of a senior headman's compound in Yoshino, Nara: a zelkova-framed yakuimon with a copper roof and twenty metres of plastered wall beside it.
Built in 1773 for a senior village headman below Mt. Ryumon in Nara, this thatched Yoshino farmhouse keeps stopped door grooves and a formal entrance board.
A late Edo document storehouse in Yoshino, Nara, built to guard a village headman's papers from fire and damp with an air-gapped roof and interlocking doors.
A small late-Edo storehouse in the Ota brewery courtyard in Tatsuta, Ikaruga. Its sea-cucumber plaster and framed doorway show a care that earned its listing.
A long late-Edo shed at the Ota brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga, linking the old kitchen to the inner storehouse. One side is open, the other a boundary wall.
The main house of the Ota sake brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga. A roof-tile inscription dates it to 1829, a rare benchmark for dating the region's town houses.
A late-Edo tea room at the Ota brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga, behind the main house across a courtyard. Its three-mat plan and crawl-in door reveal the family's wealth.
The oldest of the 15 registered Okahashi buildings in Kashihara, Nara: a late Edo guest wing dividing garden from work yard, with a rare tokozashi ceiling. Private.
A late Edo storehouse at the northwest corner of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara, jutting onto the ancient Shimotsumichi road: white plaster over boarded walls.