Edo
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Chobo-ji Kuri in Nagoya is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of 1828, its date and carpenter named on the ridge tag, older than the main hall beside it.
Chōboji's main gate in Nagoya is a late-18th-century wooden yakuimon, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property at the Zen temple where Mujū wrote the Shasekishū.
The 1831 main hall of Chiryu Shrine in Aichi is a cypress-bark sanctuary beside the old Tokaido, registered, not designated, near a famed pagoda and festival.
Tokujuji Temple Main Gate in Inuyama, Aichi, is an early Edo yakuimon with red-painted timbers. City records place the southern limit of the castle town right here.
Built in 1827 for the deputy of the Motojuku jin'ya in Okazaki, Aichi, Mokunansha works samurai timbers into a farmhouse plan. Registered in 2020, now a restaurant.
An 1843 farmhouse on the old Ina Kaido in Toyokawa, with a low tsushi attic, a pantiled gable roof and a sunken mulberry pit. Registered in 2022 and privately owned.
A Buddhist hall of 1865 beside a spring-fed pond in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. The oldest building here, with a pyramidal roof and a painted ceiling.
Nyoiji's 1826 four-legged gate in rural Toyota faces the main hall. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, its bracketing and frog-leg struts are pure late Edo.
Nyoiji Shoin in Toyota City, Aichi, began in the late Edo period as a temporary worship hall, later refashioned into a reception room with a raised upper floor.
A small Edo-period bell tower at a Pure Land temple east of Toyota, Nyoiji Shoro was built around 1755 and registered in 2013, with a fine mirror ceiling inside.
At Nyoiji, a Pure Land temple in Toyota, Aichi, a drum turret rises from a low hall with a drum hung inside, registered as a late-Edo cultural property in 2013.
The Main Hall of Nyoi-ji Temple in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, is a grand Jōdo Shinshū worship hall built around 1823. With its seven-bay facade, hip-and-gable tiled roof, ornate double rainbow beam gable decoration, and raised coffered ceiling in the inner sanctuary, it represents the fully matured form of Shin Buddhist temple architecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2013.
A modest 1848 storehouse in Toyohashi holding the Hada Hachimangu Bunko, an Edo-era library that lent books to the public and prefigured Japan's public libraries.
The Hada Hachimangu Shrine Office Annex in Toyohashi, Aichi, is a mid-Edo house moved twice, in 1812 and again by the 1920s, and registered in 2000 for its design.
Hada Hachimangu Gate, on a shrine approach in Toyohashi, Aichi, is a plain bracket gate of 1848 about 3 meters wide, marking where a noted library once stood.
Hassho Shrine Worship Hall in Toyokawa, Aichi, is an 1826 hip-and-gable haiden of 24 square meters, standing inside the precinct of Zaikaji, a Shingon temple.
Hassho Shrine Main Hall in Toyokawa, Aichi, is a one-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary of 1724. Just 0.8 square meters, it carries full-scale gable carpentry.
The Banjo Brewery Inner Well in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a pair of late Edo stone shafts 2.5 meters across and about 8 meters deep, registered in July 2007.
The Banjo Brewery Former Brewing Storehouse and Barrel Repair Shop in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a late Edo storehouse of 108 square meters, registered in 2007.
The Banjo Brewery Middle Storehouse in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a late Edo fermentation hall of 343 square meters, oldest of the three halls, registered in 2007.