Edo

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Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

4,975 total Edo Period 1603 – 1868
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Nidoji Shrine Main Hall
Shiga 江戸
Nidoji Shrine Main Hall

Nidoji Shrine Main Hall in Shigaraki is a one-bay Kasuga-style sanctuary of 1703 with a cypress-bark roof, registered in 2003 as a rare Kasuga-style hall in Shiga.

Kirishima Shrine Main Hall, Heiden Hall, and Worship Hall
Kagoshima 江戸中期
Kirishima Shrine Main Hall, Heiden Hall, and Worship Hall

A middle Edo-period shrine in Kagoshima Prefecture. Three separate halls are named in its own title, and yet the quantity there is given as one alone.

Former Shuseikan Machinery Factory
Kagoshima 江戸末期
Former Shuseikan Machinery Factory

An Edo-period stone factory in Kagoshima Prefecture. The very same ground carries a second listing there, one that was made some three years earlier still.

Yoshikawa Family Residence Storehouse
Niigata 江戸
Yoshikawa Family Residence Storehouse

An Edo-period storehouse at Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Its ridge tablet dates it to 1841, and it is taken to have held sake when the family still brewed.

Teapot with a Colorful Wisteria Design (by Ninsei)
Shizuoka 江戸
Teapot with a Colorful Wisteria Design (by Ninsei)

An Edo-period tea jar in Shizuoka Prefecture, its milky glaze painted over with wisteria in five separate colours, with silver and gold set among these.

Bonten Stand in Nakajima, Kisarazu
Chiba 江戸
Bonten Stand in Nakajima, Kisarazu

A pre-dawn rite at Nakajima in Kisarazu, Chiba, where young men plant bonten poles in the winter sea while practitioners pray on the shore. Selected in 1992.

Usa Shrine Main Hall
Oita 江戸末期
Usa Shrine Main Hall

The main hall of Usa Jingu in Oita was raised between 1855 and 1861. Two gabled buildings front and back with a gutter between typify the Hachiman style.

Shimofuji Christian Cemetery
Oita 戦国~江戸
Shimofuji Christian Cemetery

A Christian burial ground on a ridge in Usuki, Oita, where 66 graves survived the centuries of prohibition intact. Designated a Historic Site in 2018.

Oura Cathedral
Nagasaki 江戸末期
Oura Cathedral

A church of 1864 at Minamiyamate in Nagasaki, the oldest surviving in Japan. Altered from three aisles to five in 1879, it keeps its original core within.

Sofukuji Temple First Gate
Nagasaki 江戸前期
Sofukuji Temple First Gate

An early Edo-period gate in Nagasaki Prefecture. Its timbers were cut in China and were carried over there divided among several separate vessels at once.

Sofukuji Daiyuhoden
Nagasaki 江戸前期
Sofukuji Daiyuhoden

An early Edo-period hall in Nagasaki Prefecture. Its upper storey came some decades later on, and it follows a different tradition from the lower one.

Matsumoto Castle Tower
Nagano 江戸前期
Matsumoto Castle Tower

The keep of Matsumoto Castle in Nagano, built between 1594 and 1599, rises five tiers on gently sloped walling. Five buildings of differing dates make it up.

Former Takahashi Family Residence, Main Building
Nagano 江戸
Former Takahashi Family Residence, Main Building

An Edo-period thatched main house in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Its own date over there is given only as a span of some 78 whole years even now.

Ochidani Shrine Buildings, now Tottori Toshogu
Tottori 江戸前期
Ochidani Shrine Buildings, now Tottori Toshogu

Four Edo-period shrine buildings in Tottori Prefecture. The listing here keeps an older name, while the owner itself now uses a much newer one instead.

Fukuda Family Residence (Kamikodani, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture)
Tottori 江戸前期
Fukuda Family Residence (Kamikodani, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture)

A farmhouse residence in Kagodani, Tottori Prefecture. Its own reading field there covers the bracketed location set within its own name here as well.

Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl
Tokyo 南宋
Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl

A Southern Song tea bowl in Tokyo, known as the Inaba Tenmoku. Another bowl of the very same name here was listed on exactly the same day as this one.

Jittoku (Ink on Paper)
Tokyo 元
Jittoku (Ink on Paper)

An ink painting on deposit at the Tokyo National Museum, owned by a foundation. Its title names Shide alone, and not the usual pair of the two figures.

Iro-Nabeshima Sake Bottle with Pine, Bamboo and Plum Design
Tokyo 江戸
Iro-Nabeshima Sake Bottle with Pine, Bamboo and Plum Design

An Edo-period porcelain sake bottle held at Dazaifu in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Its own matching fellow there, of the very same form, is still unlisted.

Manpukuji Main Hall
Tokushima 江戸
Manpukuji Main Hall

An Edo-period timber main hall in Naka, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Its own roof is thatched, and yet sheet iron lies over it all out there even today.

Former Yamanaka Family Residence (Folklore Museum Yoakemae)
Tochigi 江戸
Former Yamanaka Family Residence (Folklore Museum Yoakemae)

An Edo-period main house in Shimotsuke, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Given to the city over there, it was then moved right to a park even so even today.