Edo
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The Miyauchi Family Residence Tide-Viewing Basin is a late-Edo stone pit in Iyo City, Ehime, used to read the harbour tide from a merchant's garden. Now closed.
The Miyauchi Family Residence Main House is a mid-Edo merchant townhouse on the old Ozu highway in Iyo City, Ehime, listed in 2018 and now bookable as Musee Nadaya.
The Miyauchi Family Residence Old Retirement House of 1812 stands at the rear of a merchant plot in Iyo City, Ehime. A dragon covers its ceiling. It is closed.
An 83 m stone wall below Myosenji in Imabari, Ehime, built with village gifts: the north half of Yuzue Island granite in 1838, the south of local stone in 1857.
An 1840 two-storey gate at the entrance to Myosenji in Imabari, Ehime, with the bell hung in its upper level; a rare one-bay type with lively late-Edo carving.
A ceremonial gate for a visiting domain lord on Ōshima, Niihama: 2.4 metres wide under heavy hongawara tile, with a 12-metre earthen east wall. Registered in 2024.
The everyday gate of a headman's compound on Ōshima, Niihama: a 3.8-metre timber gate with a wicket door and an 18-metre plastered earthen wall, registered in 2024.
A mid-Edo village headman's house on Ōshima, Niihama, registered in 2024: tsushi-nikai upper floor, hongawara tiled irimoya roof, shikidai porch, 192 square metres.
A one-bay bell tower of the late Edo period at Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, open on four sides, with a hipped-and-gabled roof whose ornaments outsize the building.
Built in 1841 in Saijo, Ehime, the Mori Family Residence Main House joins two gabled blocks with a valley gutter and holds a raised parlor for the domain lord.
A late Edo-period parlor with an 11-metre wall in Saijo, Ehime, the Mori Family Residence Garden Parlor and Wall pairs eight- and twelve-mat rooms facing a garden.
A bathing block of about 1841 in Saijo, Ehime, the Mori Family Residence Bathhouse keeps its wooden tub and privy and links to the main house by a passage.
A late Edo period irrigation weir on the Fumoto River in Uchiko, Ehime, 30 metres wide, its dry-laid stone resting on pine logs bedded on the river bedrock.
A mid-Edo farmhouse in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, designated an Important Cultural Property in 1976. Its 18.5-metre thatched hip roof covers an early four-room grid plan.
Built in 1860 in Kasama, Ibaraki, this unpainted zelkova shrine hall carries seven relief panels of the Orchid Pavilion gathering on its inner chamber walls.
Four linked halls at Hitachi's first-ranked shrine in Ibaraki, raised in 1618 and 1619 by the shogun Hidetada and built by his master carpenter Suzuki Nagatsugu.
Built in 1619 to house Kashima's deity while the main hall was rebuilt, this temporary sanctuary was never taken down. Moved three times, it stands today.
Tokugawa Yorifusa gave this two-storey gate to Kashima in 1634, its timbers cut in Edo and rafted downriver. Repainted in 2026, its vermilion is only months old.
Designated in 1968, the Sakano Family Residence in Joso City keeps a thatched main house, a samurai-style gate and a one-hectare walled compound, open as a museum.
A thatched farmhouse of a village-official family in Kasumigaura, Ibaraki, dated by an ink inscription to 1674: the oldest dated farmhouse in eastern Japan.