Edo
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In Kumamoto's Koshima port district, Hamada's late-Edo soy sauce shop wears a plastered, two-toned front with namako tilework, registered for the historic street.
A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Mashiki, Kumamoto: the former home of a rural Higo-domain samurai, its single-storey roof part hip-and-gable, part hipped.
A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kumamoto. Built by the Iseri family in 1832, this tall plastered townhouse anchors the old Miyahara post town.
Thatched silk farmhouse of about 1792 in Nakanojo, Gunma, home of the Daido village headman, its front roof cut up to light the upper floor for silkworms.
A late Edo farmhouse in Fujioka, Gunma, raised in part to two storeys in early Meiji; the 218 m² Main House shows how local farmhouses evolved. Registered in 2001.
The Former Aikawa Family Residence Main House in Isesaki, Gunma, is an 1837 merchant home with L-shaped shoin rooms and silkworm vents, open in the Aikawa museum.
The Former Aikawa Family Residence Former Store in Isesaki, Gunma, is a late Edo hardware shop, a low two-storey earthen-walled building on Nishimachi street.
The Former Aikawa Family Residence Storehouse in Isesaki, Gunma, is an 1844 hardware warehouse, a long earthen-walled building now used as a museum gallery.
A late-Edo headman's house in Naganohara, Gunma, which served as a rest house for daimyo on the Shinshu Kaido. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2018.
The Koonji Temple Priests' Quarters in Chiyoda, Gunma, is a 400-square-meter late Edo farmhouse moved from Tatebayashi and registered in 1999 for its gable framing.
The Koonji Temple Nagayamon Gate is the late Edo birthplace gate of Ogino Ginko, Japan's first licensed woman doctor, moved to this Gunma temple around 1887.
A late Edo clay-walled storehouse at the Satomi farmstead in Shimonita, Gunma, with a separate okiyane roof, white plaster walls and stepped doors. Registered 2007.
A late Edo storehouse facing the road at the Satomi farmstead in Shimonita, Gunma, entered at its east gable, paired with the gate. Repaired 1915, registered 2007.
A late Edo timber gate in Shimonita, Gunma, with a storage loft jutting over the passage like a castle yaguramon, joined to the miso storehouse. Registered in 2007.
The Shigehara Family Residence Retirement Storehouse in Obata, Gunma, is a late Edo 3-storey kura registered in 2003, with a living room below, pawn stores above.
The Shigehara Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Obata, Gunma, is a late Edo storehouse registered in 2003 that fronts the street, with a work area under a lean-to.
The Shigehara Family Residence Main House in Obata, Gunma, is a mid Edo farmhouse registered in 2003, with silkworm rooms upstairs and a 3-room plan made into 4.
The Shigehara Family Residence West Storehouse in Obata, Gunma, is a late Edo kura registered in 2003, with a floating roof and plaster relief over its garden doors.
Home and shop of 1853 of the Shoda family in Tatebayashi, Gunma, headquarters of Shoda Shoyu until 1986 and now a free museum of the family's brewing history.
Inari shrine of the late Edo period inside the Shoda Shoyu brewery in Tatebayashi, Gunma, moved in 2002; a small local shrine still dear to its neighbours.