Edo
江戸Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Honzenji Temple Priests' Quarters in Yoshino, Nara, is the mid-Edo kitchen-residence, with an earthen floor and a smoke vent on its tiled roof; registered in 2010.
Honzenji Temple Entrance in Yoshino, Nara, is a porch dated 1860, with a curved karahafu gable, carved qilin and dragons, and sumo figures; registered in 2010.
Honzenji Temple Main Gate in Yoshino, Nara, is a mid-Edo yakuimon with a tiled gable roof, carved beam ends and struts matching the main hall; registered in 2010.
Honzenji Temple Bell Tower in Yoshino, Nara, is an open mid-Edo belfry with inward-leaning posts and bracket sets under a heavy tiled roof; registered in 2010.
Honzenji Temple Chajo Hall in Yoshino, Nara, served tea to followers; dated 1798, it has an earthen floor, a cooking range and a drum tower; registered in 2010.
Honzenji Temple Main Hall in Yoshino, Nara, is a mid-Edo hall, 18 by 17 meters under a pantiled roof, laid out for Shin Buddhist gatherings; registered in 2010.
Honzenji Temple Rennyo Hall in Yoshino, Nara, is a one-bay 1747 hall for Rennyo, with a copper pyramidal roof, cusped gable and carved doors; registered in 2010.
This worship hall at Honzenji, Yoshino, Nara, fronts the founder's hall and is dated 1748, when a mallet found in its roof was inscribed; it was registered in 2010.
An 1829 townhouse with a low upper floor in Naramachi, Nara, dated by its ridge tag and a benchmark for local machiya. A tearoom operates inside. Registered 2015.
A low single-storey late Edo townhouse at the front of the Matsuyama rice merchant estate in Naramachi, Nara, now a tofu restaurant. Registered in 2015.
The Minami Family Residence Main House in Gose, Nara, is a yamato-mune farmhouse of 1751-1830 with a steel-sheathed thatched roof and six rooms in two rows.
The Minami Family Residence Tool Storehouse in Gose, Nara, is a two-storey kura of 1830-1868 whose white plaster walls run up into the eaves on the east edge.
The Minami Family Residence Annex Reception Wing in Gose, Nara, is a guest annex of 1830-1868 with connecting tatami rooms, an alcove and a cusped-window desk niche.
The Yamada Liquor Store inner storehouse dates from 1812 like the main house and was moved intact by hikiya in the Taisho period. Plastered walls and barred windows.
Built in 1812 after a river flood, the Yamada Liquor Store main house keeps its shop front on the Hasedera approach, with living rooms behind and two garden rooms.
A National Treasure: a Southern Song edition of Ouyang Xiu's works, edited by Zhou Bida, once in the medieval Kanazawa Bunko library and nearly complete at Tenri.
Discover the Song Edition of Liu Mengde's Collected Works, a National Treasure held at Tenri University Library in Nara. Printed in 12th-century China, brought to Japan by Zen master Eisai, and once admired by shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, this rare printed book offers a remarkable glimpse into the literary exchange between Tang China and medieval Japan.
A large gassho-style farmhouse in Gokayama, Nanto, Toyama, an Important Cultural Property since 1958, the most developed form of the style in the Sho River basin.
The Saeki Family Residence in Takaoka, Toyama, is a farmhouse bought from a Kaga domain headman and re-erected here in 1768. Papers date it; Toyama's oldest minka.
An 18th-century highway farmhouse relocated to the Tateyama Museum grounds in Toyama. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1971; repaired and reopened 2025.