Edo
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The Funayakata in Kobe's Sorakuen, the cabin of a river barge used by the lords of Himeji around 1700, is kept on land and said to be the last river barge in Japan.
The storehouse of the Ashida Family Residence in Amagasaki, built around 1770 and moved on rollers around 1965, is a two-storey store sealed in white plaster.
The barn of the Ashida Family Residence in Amagasaki is a plain late Edo timber building with an open bay on the north and latticed windows on the south side.
A late Edo yakuimon gate 2.6 m wide at the south front of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, with round-and-flat tiles and a butterfly crest; registered 2012.
A two-story late Edo earthen storehouse on the east side of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, split into an inner store and a rice store; registered 2012.
A late Edo thatched farmhouse in Sayo, Hyogo, 22.7 m long, with an earth-floored work area and eight raised rooms; a typical big Harima house registered in 2012.
A short late Edo wall at the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, stepping up from the rice storehouse to the rear wall, white plaster over a board base; registered 2012.
A 45 m late Edo earthen wall running from the front gate of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, on fitted cut stone, with a small east gate; registered 2012.
Built in 1853 at Fukuyoshi in Sayo, Hyogo, this thatched two-storey farmhouse keeps a formal shikidai entrance and an eight-room plan. Registered 2024. Not open.
This late Edo storehouse behind the Inoue main house at Fukuyoshi in Sayo, Hyogo, has earthen walls stopped at the middle coat, a stone plinth and pantiles.
The oldest of six registered buildings on a former headman's estate in Amagasaki: a later-Edo two-storey storehouse, plastered and board-clad, on the street front.
Late Edo main house of a former village headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo: six rooms, two central pillars and plastered walls. Registered 2011. Private.
The Enichiji Temple Back Gate in Tanba, Hyogo, is a mid-Edo yakuimon gate 2.3 metres wide, the oldest of five registered buildings, with carved beam ends.
The Enichiji Temple Sutra Repository in Tanba, Hyogo, is a late Edo earthen storehouse holding a rare palace-style sutra cabinet with fan rafters in a tall room.
The Enichiji Temple Priests' Quarters in Tanba, Hyogo, is a late Edo thatched kuri of 373 square metres, the largest registered building here, with an earthen entry.
The Enichiji Temple Bell Tower in Tanba, Hyogo, is a tall skirted belfry of 1867 with a cypress-bark roof, exposed roof framing above its bronze bell.
The Enichiji Temple Abbot's Quarters in Tanba, Hyogo, is a late Edo thatched Zen hall with a six-room plan and wide verandas, linked by corridors to the Buddha hall.
A late-Edo torii of Rokko granite, 5.2 metres high, marks the south edge of Otsuchi Shrine in Kobe, a village enriched by water-mill oil pressing. Listed in 2016.
The main hall of Otsuchi Shrine in Kobe covers 1.5 square metres. Built late in the Edo period for a village of oil-pressing water mills, it was registered in 2016.
A modest wing where the retired head of the Otoshi household lived. Set along the north-east wall, it pairs a six-mat room with a four-mat anteroom. Registered 1999.