Edo

The 1812 shoin of Renkyoji in Nagoya, joined to the main hall by a corridor, with a formal upper room featuring a built-in desk and coffered ceiling. Registered.

The 1758 main hall of Renkyoji in Nagoya, a hipped Takada-branch Shin hall with a typical deep plan and a drum tower over its entrance. Registered property.

Renkei-ji Hondo, located in Aguicho on Aichi Prefecture's Chita Peninsula, is a remarkably large Jodo Shinshu main hall completed in 1811 by the renowned Yokomatsu carpenters of Edo-period Aichi. Designated a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2013, the hall preserves rare architectural features including a four-pillar three-bay front porch, round outer-sanctuary pillars, and a stunning double-folded coffered ceiling above its inner sanctuary — a hidden treasure of regional Japanese craftsmanship.

Held in the Hosa Library in Nagoya, the Song Edition of the Taiping Shenghui Fang (Kanazawa Bunko Version) is a Southern Song printed copy of the imperial medical encyclopedia originally compiled in 100 volumes by Wang Huaiyin under the command of Emperor Taizong. Designated an Important Cultural Property, it traveled from Hōjō Sanetoki's Kanazawa Bunko through Toyotomi Hidetsugu and Tokugawa Ieyasu to the first Owari lord Tokugawa Yoshinao. The 24 surviving printed booklets, supplemented by 27 Keichō-era manuscript volumes, bear the distinctive 'Kanazawa Bunko' and 'Gohon' seals on every volume, making it a primary witness to East Asian medical history.

Isaniwa Shrine in Matsuyama keeps four buildings of 1667 in the rare hachiman-zukuri form, plus 22 sangaku tablets, five minutes uphill from Dogo Onsen station.

A mid-Edo keep on a hill in Uwajima, three storeys of white plaster with stacked gables, no loopholes and no stone chutes. One of Japan's twelve surviving keeps.

Ozu Castle in Ehime keeps three turrets of 1843 to 1861 on a hill by the Hiji River, two of them joined to a rebuilt keep and one with a rare railed gallery.

The San-no-maru South Corner Turret of Ozu Castle in Ehime, rebuilt in 1766, is the oldest surviving turret of the castle, with hidden loopholes in its walls.

A Kansei era townhouse in Uchiko, Ehime, listed with its 1885 rear parlour. Built before the wax boom, its upper floor holds no reception rooms. Exterior only.

An early Edo worship hall on Omishima, seven bays wide beneath a cypress-bark gable, with round pillars, no ceiling and a curved front canopy. Designated in 1953.

Seven Meiji-period buildings at the Niihama house of Hirose Saihei, who modernised the Besshi copper mine. Designated in 2003 and open inside for 550 yen.

A late 18th-century thatched farmhouse moved from Besshiyama to Kamikuroiwa in 1975. Its rooms sit in a single row with almost no earth floor. Free entry.

Toshima Family Residence in Matsuyama has seven designated buildings around a 1758 main house whose thatched roofs bend into a reversed Z. It stays a private home.

Standing on the wooded slopes of Mount Tomisu in Ozu City, Ehime, the Buddha Hall of Nyohoji Temple was completed in 1670 when the second lord of Ozu Domain, Kato Yasuoki, invited the renowned Zen master Bankei Yotaku to refound the temple. Uniquely combining the functions of a Buddha hall and a Zen meditation hall within a single structure, it preserves its original form almost unchanged and was designated a National Important Cultural Property in 1992 as a defining example of early modern Zen Buddha hall architecture.

Matsuyama Castle in Ehime keeps 21 Edo-period buildings designated as Important Cultural Properties: a keep rebuilt in 1854 with 6 turrets, 7 gates and 7 walls.

A small thatched farmhouse in the Kiriyama hills of Shikokuchuo, Ehime, walled on three sides with a naka-nema three-room plan; among the prefecture's oldest.

A headman's compound in Matsuyama, an Important Cultural Property since 1970: an 1866 main house with a thatched roof monitor, a gatehouse and two storehouses.

A saddle at 820 metres in the precinct of Yokomineji in Saijo, Ehime, a Place of Scenic Beauty since 2017, where an iron torii frames the sacred Mount Ishizuchi.

A late Edo stone sluice on the shore of Omishima in Ehime, its granite wall curving 7.8 meters around the outlet. The channel was rebuilt, yet it still drains today.

A late Edo stone sluice on the shore of Omishima in Ehime that drained a salt field. Its dry-laid granite wall runs 12 meters, diagonal below and coursed above.