Edo
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The 1770 main gate of Jorakuji in Kakogawa is a tiled four-legged gate with carved gable struts and old-style pivot doors that keep their original metal fittings.
Built in 1754 beside the gate, the Jorakuji bell tower in Kakogawa has posts leaning inward on all sides, carved struts and a bell hung from a beam below the ridge.
The 1692 Jorakuji main hall in Kakogawa is a 19 by 17 metre Pure Land hall with a convex sanctuary, a painted ceiling and a cusped-gable entrance wing added in 1722.
The Jorakuji Yakushido of 1862 is a small copper-roofed pyramid hall, youngest of the temple's four registered buildings, with carved struts and a lattice front.
The anzaisho of Hontokuji, Himeji Senba Betsuin, is a late Edo temple residence where Emperor Meiji stayed, centred on a throne room with an unusual alcove.
A late Edo farmhouse at Tatsuno, Hyogo, that served as the honjin of Senbon-juku. Its shikidai entrance and hon-kawara roof mark a headman's rank; registered 2004.
A late Edo gatehouse facing the old Himeji-Tottori highway at Tatsuno, Hyogo. A tatami room lies west of the gate, a board-floored room east; registered 2004.
The main hall of Daishinji in Kasai, Hyogo, built in 1845, is a standard three-bay Jodo hall whose simplified interior is typical of the late Edo period.
Built in 1851 at Yokoo in Kasai City, Hyogo, the Takai Family Residence Main Building sets barred plaster loft windows over a projecting lattice front.
The oldest of the Tajika family's five registered buildings in Amagasaki: a late Edo pair of stores, one 2-storey and one lower, boarded below and plastered above.
Nagata Shrine Izumo Taisha Shrine in Kobe is a late Edo shrine to Okuninushi, moved here in 1928, deeper than it is wide and crowned with chigi and katsuogi.
Nagata Shrine Tsukuyomi Shrine in Kobe is a late Edo moon-god shrine that survived the 1924 fire and was moved onto a new stone base and painted red in 1928.
Nagata Shrine Hiruko Shrine in Kobe is a late Edo shrine to Hiruko, also called Ebisu, moved in 1928; small in plan but tall, with its festival on January 10.
Nagata Shrine Matsuo Shrine in Kobe is a late Edo subsidiary shrine kept in a protective shed before the 1924 fire and reset on a rounded kamebara base in 1928.
The late Edo sake brewery at the Nishio compound in Tambasasayama: an 11-ken fermentation hall with a former koji room, forming the long east frontage of the plot.
The 1733 main house of the Nishio sake-brewing family in Tambasasayama, facing the old San'in Road: a part-hipped roof, earth-floored work area and reception wings.
An 1820 teahouse at the Nishio compound in Tambasasayama: a 3-mat mizuya and 6-mat tea room that converts to 4.5 mats, linked to the main house by a covered walkway.
A late Edo annex in the northeast corner of the Nishio compound in Tambasasayama, along the old San'in Road, with a stepped roof and a side gate to the house.
A late Edo storehouse at the Nishio compound in Tambasasayama: two separate earthen stores under a single okiyane roof, with two doors under the east lean-to roof.
The late Edo gate and wall on the old San'in Road at the Nishio compound in Tambasasayama: boarded and plastered, tiled on the road side, with a copper-roofed gate.