Edo
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Late Edo plastered wall on a rubble base curving round a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo, with a yakuimon rear gate on the back road. Registered 2019.
Late Edo hip-and-gable farmhouse of a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo: bracketed eaves, slatted windows above lean-tos, six-room plan. Registered 2019.
1863 L-shaped gatehouse at a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo: 40 metres long, with plastered walls and gateways east and south. Registered 2019.
Late Edo earthen wall on the west side of a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo: plastered outside, rough clay facing the garden. Registered 2019.
Late Edo plastered garden wall and small cedar-bark gate at a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo, turning twice to meet the main house. Registered 2019.
A late Edo townhouse office in Tatsuno with a Meiji pressing house behind it, still holding a press, raw soy sauce tank and brick chimney; registered in 2013.
An 1848 storehouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo, the oldest building on a headman's homestead: two storeys, white plaster up to the eaves band, a roof of round and flat tile.
Homei Sake Brewery Kettle Room and Rice-Washing Room, a late Edo workroom in Tamba-Sasayama, displays the great kettle and wooden steamer used for sake rice.
Homei Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse is a late Edo sake hall in Tamba-Sasayama about 20 meters long, where visitors can feel music vibrating a fermenting tank.
Homei Sake Brewery Main House, built in 1804 in Tamba-Sasayama, is a brewer's townhouse with a bowed tile roof, now the shop and entrance to a free sake museum.
Homei Sake Brewery Storehouse No. 1, a late Edo storehouse in Tamba-Sasayama, turns a blind plastered wall to the street and closes the frontage at its corner.
Homei Sake Brewery Storehouse No. 2, a late Edo storehouse in Tamba-Sasayama, rises two full storeys under a floating roof above a tiled namako wainscot.
Homei Sake Brewery Pressing House and Koji Room joins a column-free Edo pressing room, now a concert hall too, to a koji room with walls packed with rice husks.
A late Edo merchant house on Yamasaki's sake brewery street in Shiso, Hyogo, registered nationally in 2024. Mushiko windows, carved eaves brackets, a cafe inside.
A late Edo tool storehouse joined to the Maeno main house on Yamasaki's brewery street in Shiso, Hyogo. Registered in 2024 for the frontage it completes.
The Matsuso Storehouse on the Horikawa canal in Takasago, Hyogo, built in 1823, is a tiled clay-walled store for sea and farm produce from the river-trade era.
The oldest storehouse of a headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a small late-Edo two-storey store on granite footings, joined to the main house by a porch.
A late-Edo well at the heart of a headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a jointed granite curb 0.8 m square over an 8 m shaft, with a granite washing slab beside it.
A late-Edo headman's house in Amagasaki, Hyogo, moved and rebuilt on site, with a swelling irimoya roof and plaster waves on its corner posts; registered 2009.
Tile-capped walls 58 m long on the north and south of a headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Edo and Meiji in date, black plaster over boards with a white line.