Edo

Hirakiya Hataten is a historic dyeing workshop in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, founded during the Hōreki era (1751–1763). The late Edo-period machiya townhouse is registered as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property and Kanazawa City Designated Cultural Property. Once an official purveyor to the Kaga Domain, the shop continues its 250-year tradition of hand-dyeing flags, noren curtains, and banners, while its architecture — featuring a long earthen corridor and a second-floor tea room — exemplifies classic Kanazawa merchant-house design.

Ninsei's Iroe Pheasant Incense Burner, a National Treasure in Kanazawa, is a life-size ceramic male pheasant with gold-lined feathers and four smoke vents.

The Takida Family Residence in Shiroi City, Chiba Prefecture, is a thatched hipped-roof farmhouse estimated to have been built in the mid-to-late 17th century. As the only nationally designated Important Cultural Property folk house in Chiba Prefecture that remains continuously inhabited, this former village headman's home preserves over 350 years of architectural heritage along the shores of Shimo-Teganuma Pond.

Built in 1622 by sword-appraiser Hon'ami Kōshitsu for his late parents, this 31.6-meter vermilion pagoda at Hokekyō-ji is Chiba's only surviving Edo-period pagoda.

Choshi lost its old townscape in 1945; this net barn survived. Dated by tradition to the 1860s, it seals nets behind deep eaves and blank walls. Registered 2018.

Same design as its neighbour, three-fifths the size, one window moved from the upper gable to the ground floor. Two Keio-era net barns side by side. Registered 2018.

Built in 1847, the main house of the Someya residence in Kashiwa ranks among western Chiba's largest farmhouses, its L-shaped earthen wing recalling a headman's life.

The Nagayamon gate faces south along the front of the Someya estate, a gateway flanked by rooms east and west. It is held to be the oldest of the eight buildings.

The document storehouse of 1867 is the second-oldest building at the Someya residence. Its thick plastered walls sheltered the archive that now dates the estate.

In Narashino, Chiba, the Hirose Family Residence Main House preserves a late-Edo grain merchant's rooms and Boso farmhouse details, built by a temple carpenter.

A wooden 1866 gate fronting a pharmacy that has served Chonan's old post town for 300 years, its angled wing walls forming a forecourt to welcome travelers.

Discover the Mukai-gura storehouse at the Motegi Shichiroemon Residence in Noda, Chiba — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from the Edo period, reflecting the legacy of a soy sauce brewing family that helped found Kikkoman.

Standing on the old Sakandana street in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, the Yamani Tsunashima Shoten shop building is a late Edo-period dry goods store founded in 1866. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, its distinctive architecture features two storehouse-style buildings of different heights arranged front to back. Discover the charm of this rare surviving merchant building that tells the story of Kisarazu's prosperous port town heritage.

The Ino Tadataka Related Materials gather 2,345 items, from 123 finished Ino maps and 399 drafts to 63 instruments, showing how Japan's first measured map was made.

A 17th-century ink painting by Iwasa Matabei: Rōgyoku summons a phoenix with her flute. A panel of the dispersed Kanaya screen, an Important Cultural Property.

Completed in 1647, the shoin at Kanshinji is a rare early Edo temple reception hall, kept with the garden, gate and kitchen of its walled compound south of Osaka.

Gansenji in Kaizuka, Osaka, governed a self-ruling temple town and briefly headed Honganji. Its main hall, gate, and drum tower are Important Cultural Properties.

Kumata Shrine's First Hall in Osaka was built in 1690 for Kasuga Taisha in Nara and moved here in 1711, a single-bay kasuga-zukuri Important Cultural Property.

The Former Sugiyama Family Residence, a National Important Cultural Property in Tondabayashi Jinaimachi — Osaka's only Important Preservation District for Traditional Buildings — is the oldest surviving townhouse in the district, dating to the mid-17th century. Once home to one of the eight founding families who governed the town and prospered as sake brewers, this grand merchant house blends rural farmhouse architecture with refined reception rooms, and is also celebrated as the birthplace of Meiji-era poet Isonokami Tsuyuko.

Built in 1708, the main hall of Daikai Shrine at Sumiyoshi Taisha is the oldest surviving Sumiyoshi-zukuri sanctuary, predating the National Treasure halls.