Edo
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Built in 1850, the Isaji Family Residence Kamizashiki in Mitake, Gifu, pairs a formal porch with a biwa alcove and was sold off, then brought back, in the Meiji era.
The Isaji Family Residence Main House in Mitake, Gifu, is a late Edo farmhouse, registered in 2018, with a heavy yotsudate timber frame bare over its earth floor.
The Isaji Family Residence Tea House in Mitake, Gifu, is a late Edo six-mat tea room with a wrinkled cedar alcove post, black lacquer sill and pale blue-green walls.
The Isaji Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Mitake, Gifu, is a 20-metre late Edo gatehouse on a rough fieldstone wall above an old road, with lattice windows.
The Kasami Shrine Worship Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is an open-sided 1746 hall on a stone base whose raised central beams recall a split worship hall.
The Kasami Shrine Main Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1687 three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary with layered front gables and a cypress-bark roof, registered in 2008.
The Kawai Family Residence Main House in Gujo, Gifu, is a village headman's farmhouse of 1805 with an earth floor, a stable, a silkworm loft and carved brackets.
The Kawai Family Residence East Storehouse in Gujo, Gifu, is a plain 2-storey storehouse of 1824 with a detached tiled roof, a west porch and a board-clad base.
House of 1838 moved in 2005 to Fukuji in Okuhida, Takayama: a 21-metre gabled building of hinoki cypress with projecting lattices and a formal entrance step.
The oldest building of the Goto family compound in Gifu City: a late-Edo, 2-storey plastered storehouse valued as a survivor from before the 1891 Nobi earthquake.
Inn of 1859 at Hosokute-juku on the Nakasendo in Mizunami, Gifu, once the Owari domain's inn, with udatsu firewalls and a black-plastered front; still open.
A headman's house in Itadori, Seki, Gifu, believed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs to date to the 17th century, its low roof once cedar bark. Registered 2003.
A late Edo storehouse behind a Takayama tea shop, a century older than the building on the street. Its okiyane roof and inward-leaning posts show an older manner.
The Hanada-Imai Main House in Mimayano, Gero, began in 1829. Its earthen-floor side became a Western clinic and its upper floor is thought to have raised silkworms.
Chikusetsuro, the Yabashi Family Residence Retirement House in Ogaki, dates to 1805 and is the estate's oldest building, a single storey under a two-tier roof.
The Yabashi Family Residence Front Gate in Ogaki dates from 1848 to 1854. Its black-plastered, board-skirted walls echo the Main House and lead guests to the Shoin.
The Yabashi Family Residence Main House is an 1833 townhouse on the old Nakasendō in Ogaki, with a low tsushi-nikai upper floor, black-plastered eaves and lattice.
The Yabashi Family Residence Shoin (Kootei) in Ogaki is a Kaei-era reception wing whose black-plastered step, scored earthen floor and woven dado show sukiya craft.
The Yabashi Family Residence Middle Storehouse in Ogaki is a Tenpō-era kura of 52 square metres with a gable-end door facing the Main House and shutters upstairs.
The Yabashi Family Residence East Storehouse in Ogaki is the smallest of 3 Tenpō-era kura, at 29 square metres, with a covered doorway and notched-batten siding.