Edo

A small late Edo storehouse behind the retirement rooms of a merchant estate in Kashihara, Nara, joined by an open copper-roofed corridor dividing two gardens.

The largest building of a merchant estate on the ancient Shimotsumichi road in Kashihara, Nara: a late Edo townhouse 20 metres wide, nine rooms behind stout lattice.

A late Edo bracket-arm gate on the ancient Shimotsumichi road in Kashihara, Nara, leading to a merchant family's retirement rooms, lattice door to the street.

A one-bay temple gate from Yakushi-in, a sub-temple of Todai-ji, moved to a Nara samurai house around 1942, with short eaves and a ceiling of reused shutter boards.

An 1856 samurai house in Nara's Tamoncho whose east half is original and whose tearoom, tatami rooms and reception wing were added in 1942 using old timbers.

A late Edo storehouse about 4 m square in Nara's Tamoncho, with eaves on three sides and well-kept lime plaster; moved by hikiya in 1942 and registered in 2006.

A 58 m late Edo earthen wall at a samurai house in Nara's Tamoncho, turning north beside the storehouse and stepping down the sloping west edge under a tiled coping.

The main gate of Kikusuiro in Nara, an Edo-period yakuimon said to have come from a sub-temple of Enjoji, 2.4 m wide with a heavy tiled roof; registered in 2000.

Beside the Main Building entrance of Kikusuiro in Nara, this Edo-period yakuimon from a temple is 1.9 m wide with pan tiles and leads to the garden; registered 2000.

The only building of the five listed as a model of design: a 307-square-metre range holding six guest rooms and a kitchen wing, with its 41 paintings now in Nara.

One late-Edo building holding two uses: a 6-mat parlor under a hipped roof and a storehouse with a separately framed roof, linked by a single narrow passage.

A late-Edo hall of 26 square metres, gable-fronted with a veranda on three sides and a smoke vent for the goma fire rite set into its coffered ceiling.

The only structure and the only cypress-bark roof among the five: a 1.7-metre bracket gate with a carved kirin and flower-lattice doors, dividing two gardens.

An 1849 munamon gate on the south edge of a former sub-temple at Tonomine, Sakurai: thick zelkova posts, deep eaves and a roof re-covered in tile around 1985.

An 1850 sub-temple guest hall at Tonomine, Sakurai: nine rooms ringed by a corridor and veranda, a karahafu porch, and a Buddha's shrine hidden in the roof space.

An 1850 garden gate in an earthen wall at a former sub-temple at Tonomine, Sakurai: a light udekimon whose copper roof keeps the edge of its cypress-bark eaves.

The gate of Jokyoji on Sanjo-dori in Nara, a late Edo yakuimon gate under a tiled gabled roof, is carved with animals, plants, whorls and clouds on its struts.

A late Edo tool and document store joined to the Shoji main house in Ando, Nara: a 2-ken-square plastered storehouse with a floating tiled roof and double eave band.

Main house of the Shoji family, village officials in Ando, Nara: a late Edo Yamato-mune farmhouse with a shikidai entrance and alcove room, registered 2020.

The only late Edo-period building on the Tatsumi estate in Ikaruga, Nara: a small storehouse joined to the tea room and corridor, with a detached oki-yane roof.