Edo

Old documents at Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto Prefecture. The title counts 2,205 separate pieces, while the quantity field counts the scrolls that hold them.

A tea bowl held at Ryukoin in Kyoto Prefecture. Yet another bowl of the very same name is recorded there under a different system of listing altogether.

Six Edo-period handscrolls owned by the state and kept in Kyoto. Picture and text alike are attributed quite separately in the official record itself.

An Edo-period storehouse in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. An inscription on its window grille dates it to 1836, the oldest in the area.

Two Edo-period shrine structures in Kochi Prefecture. Their own value here rests on how very few other cultural properties the region itself holds now.

The Shodendo of Kangiin in Kumagaya, Saitama, a gongen-zukuri hall paid for by ordinary worshippers and covered in colour carving, a National Treasure since 2012.

A middle Edo-period hall in Mie Prefecture. Zen in its outward appearance, it nonetheless keeps the plan usual to a Shin Buddhist main hall inside it.

A middle Edo-period hall in Mie Prefecture. Nine bays in each direction, it has the largest square plan met among all of the buildings covered so far.

An Edo-period Buddhist temple main hall in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture. Two other listed halls elsewhere in Japan carry this very same name here as well.

The surviving buildings of a domain school founded in Iga in 1821 as a branch of the Tsu academy Yuzokan. Designated a Historic Site in 1930 and open to visitors.

Eleven Edo-period items held at Ise in Mie Prefecture, Japan. The contents of this group there are counted in four quite different measures even today.

Eight halls built 1736-1753 with donations gathered by the pilgrim leader Murakami Kosei, from the worship hall to a lava-basin water pavilion, designated in 2017.

An Edo-period oil storehouse in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Of its three rooms only one has an upper floor; the rest rise open to the roof.

An Edo-period salt storehouse in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Only its western room held salt, yet that one room gives the whole building its name.

An Edo-period document storehouse in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Two other buildings on the grounds are placed by reference to this small store.

An Edo-period shop storehouse in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Shop below and rooms above, it was drawn back whole in 1960 to widen the road.

A Southern Song painting on one scroll at Kuonji in Yamanashi, recorded as having once formed a single set with two other scrolls held elsewhere today.

A hall of 1640 at Enryakuji on Mount Hiei in Shiga. Its earthen inner sanctuary lies three metres below the boarded worship space, keeping the basic esoteric plan.

A Buddhist temple guest hall in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. One single page there gives two quite different dates for it, half a century apart now.

An Edo-period timber gate at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It is measured only by its own frontage over there, and by nothing else even now.