Edo
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A late Edo dry-laid wall at Uchiko in Ehime: 6 metres high, 31 metres at the base, green schist slabs with seven large blocks set into the face. Registered in 2006.
Built in late Edo and moved here in Meiji, Umenishiki Yamakawa Brewing Storehouse is said to have been an Iyo-Saijo domain boathouse. Registered in 2001.
Located in Sugata-machi, Ozu City, Ehime Prefecture, the Ono Family Residence Nagayamon Gate is a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built before 1857. Distinguished by its asymmetric roof combining hip-and-gable and gable forms, a raised monitor roof, and a finely composed lattice façade, it stands as one of southern Ehime's most impressive surviving long-house gates.
The Ochi Family Residence Shop and Dwelling in Saijo, Ehime is a late Edo merchant house registered in 2002. Its omoteya-zukuri front faces the old port road.
A late Edo stone sluice on the shore of Omishima, Ehime, that drained a salt field, its outlet shielded by a wall 8.5 meters long curving seaward against the waves.
A late Edo stone wall in Honaicho, Yawatahama, Ehime, running 33 meters. Blue schist set at sharp angles, from before chevron masonry was perfected. Listed 2002.
A late Edo townhouse in Uchiko, Ehime, joined with a 1910 block into one building. Registered in 2024 as a model of design, it now holds a museum of merchant life.
A late Edo townhouse in Ozu, Ehime, built by the Murakami family to be let. The oldest and lowest of their four buildings, with a railed gallery over the street.
A small late Edo townhouse in Ozu, Ehime, older than the main house beside it and the smallest of the four Murakami buildings, with a railed bay window.
Jokoji Temple Jizo Hall on Iwagi Island, Ehime, is a 16-square-meter hall of 1831 whose chamfered pillars meet the purlins directly, with no bracket complex.
Jokoji Temple Main Hall on Iwagi Island in Ehime is a three-bay Pure Land hall of 1752, with a pyramid roof, carved brackets and a floor area of 95 square meters.
In the precinct of Kawanoe Hachiman Shrine in Shikokuchuo, the Hitotsuyanagi Jinya Gate is a rare fully two-storey domain gate, repaired in 1999 and listed in 2000.
A late Edo headman's house in Ozu, Ehime, registered in 2005. Two wings meet at an angle, and a 3.6-metre entrance platform marks the Hyodo family's rank.
A late Edo roofed earthen wall enclosing the northern half of a headman's compound in Ozu, Ehime. It runs 80 metres on a plinth of green chlorite schist.
A late Edo munemon gate, 2.5 metres wide, at the head of stone steps in Ozu, Ehime, set on a common line with the shikidai entrance of the main house.
A four-legged gate of 1822 at a Rinzai temple in Iyo, Ehime. Bare zelkova, 2.8 metres wide, and dense with late Edo carving: spirals, waves and worked corbels.
A late Edo retirement house for a priest at a Rinzai temple in Iyo, Ehime. Thatched hip roof, a tiled skirt on all four sides, and a bay-window study alcove inside.
Built in 1781 at a Rinzai temple in Iyo, Ehime, this main hall uses the six-room plan of a Zen abbot's quarters. No brackets, no carving, one bamboo-node transom.
A late Edo thatched farmhouse in Kumakogen, Ehime, with a twelve-mat formal room said to have lodged the domain's forest inspector. Registered in 2003.
Masaki Honten Shop and Main House faces the old Matsumaru road in Matsuno, Ehime. A gabled shop wing joins a hip-and-gable residence, registered in 2017.