Edo
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The main hall of Tenchuin in Soja, Okayama, built in 1828, faces south over farmland, a fine late Edo-period Rinzai Zen hall with six rooms behind a broad veranda.
Toshoji Temple Founder's Hall and Memorial Tablet Hall, built 1716-1735 behind the main hall in Yakage, Okayama, houses portraits of its founders. Registered 2011.
Toshoji Temple Priests' Quarters, built in 1752 in Yakage, Okayama, is a 28 m Zen kitchen block with an earth-floored hall, facing the Zen Hall. Registered 2011.
Toshoji Temple Bell Tower, a two-story belfry of 1838 in Yakage, Okayama, sets an ornate upper story with arched windows across its lower roof. Registered 2011.
Toshoji Temple Zen Hall and Guest Monks' Quarters, built in 1838 in Yakage, Okayama, splits one 27 m building into a meditation hall and guest lodge. Listed 2011.
Toshoji Temple Second Gate, a late Edo gate 250 m up the approach in Yakage, Okayama, is plastered white to the eaves with altar shelves on its sides. Listed 2011.
Toshoji Temple Abbot's Quarters and Shoin, built in 1753 in Yakage, Okayama, holds alcoved guest rooms, a tea room and a formal shikidai entrance. Registered 2011.
Built in 1697, Toshoji Temple Main Hall in Yakage, Okayama, is a north-facing Soto Zen hall 19 m wide with a six-room plan and coved ceilings. Registered in 2011.
A tile inscribed 1786 dates this headman's house in Niimi, Okayama, raised on a long stone wall below a mountain fortress. Still a private home, not open.
A 29-square-metre late-Edo storehouse south of the Nagashiki main house on Konoshima. Namako-kabe at the corners, a granary on the earthen floor. Registered 2024.
A late-Edo farmhouse on Konoshima that grew a Taisho guest parlour under temple-derived roofs. Doubled eaves, a tokonoma, a reclaimed sea below. Registered 2024.
Nishie Family Residence Grain Storehouse, Takahashi: a late Edo clifftop store for rice and barley, now the Nishie Family Museum. Registered 2003, open by booking.
Nishie Family Residence Main House in Takahashi, Okayama: a late Edo home remodelled c.1894, with a 27 m front, formal entrance, and namako walls. Registered 2003.
The Hayashibara Museum of Art Nagayamon Gate is a late Edo samurai gatehouse moved from an Ikeda branch residence, with plastered walls and namako tiling below.
An 1830s storehouse in Ushimado, Okayama, with an 8-mat tokonoma guest room under a raised north roof and white plaster and namako-kabe walls. Registered 2007.
The mid-Edo Founder's Hall of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: a 3-bay pyramid-roofed hall on a walled terrace, its altar framed by Zen-style three-stepped brackets.
Stone walls and a tile-capped earthen wall of 1806 around the Founder's Hall at Hofukuji, Soja: the clay is left at its middle coat, not whitened. Registered 2009.
A four-legged gate of 1806 before the Founder's Hall of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: tiled gable roof, wing walls and a carved lozenge panel. Registered in 2009.
The 1764 sutra repository of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: a 2-bay clay-walled storehouse with a pyramid roof, karahafu porch and ogee windows. Registered 2009.
The mid-Edo priests' quarters of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: a 2-story, 432-square-meter building whose gable facade shows its posts, beams and tie beams.