Edo

Two-storey clay-walled storehouse of the late Edo period at Shoda Shoyu in Tatebayashi, Gunma, moved with the old shop in 1987 and now the memorial hall's store.

A tiny 1867 household Inari shrine in Kiryu, dated by an ink inscription under its floor, with a carved dragon and lions, kept inside a lattice-fronted shelter.

This late Edo gatehouse of the Shinden honjin at Nakayama-juku in Takayama, Gunma, served as the local post office from 1873 to 1966. A rare early rural example.

The oldest building on the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma: a late-Edo thatched farmhouse with a four-room plan, guest room and tiled eaves. Registered 2007; private.

Late Edo town house of the Kezuka family's sake brewery in Tatebayashi, Gunma, with an open ground floor and latticed upper storey; now the Kezuka Memorial Hall.

A timber house of about 1866 behind the Horiguchi shop in Shibukawa, Gunma, split into kamite and shimote halves, the latter once a through passage. Registered 2000.

An 1866 two-storey clay-walled shop in Shibukawa, Gunma, its polished black plaster front facing the road; registered in 2000 as hard to reproduce. Exterior only.

A large late Edo townhouse on Route 353 in Nakanojo, Gunma, once the official home of a headman family and briefly a district office; registered in 2001.

Mid-Edo thatched house of the priests of Moriwaki Hachimangu in Shobara, Hiroshima, with a cattle stable, earth floor and a raised takama room for the gods.

The estate of a village headman family in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, whose 1788 main house became an Important Cultural Property in 1978, with a rare internal storehouse.

Dated to 1665 by an inscribed ridge tile, the Former Kihara Family Residence in Hiroshima housed sake-brewing salt merchants and keeps a rare early townhouse plan.

Kibitsu Shrine's main hall in Fukuyama, an Important Cultural Property rebuilt in 1648 by lord Mizuno Katsunari, is nearly 18.5 m wide with a Buddhist-hall interior.

Six Edo-period buildings at Jodoji Temple, Onomichi: the 1690 Hojo, Karamon, guest hall, storehouse, rear gate and the Rotekian tea house linked to Hideyoshi.

A mid-eighteenth-century thatched farmhouse in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, an Important Cultural Property since 1978, moved and restored when a dam flooded its site.

A late Edo storehouse facing the harbour of Tomo, Fukuyama, registered in 1997, now displaying artefacts from Sakamoto Ryoma's ship Iroha-maru.

A late Edo stone check dam high in a Dodogawa side valley in Fukuyama, Hiroshima: 3.8 metres of dry random walling, quoined corners and diagonal courses.

A late Edo storehouse on a Shiraichi lane, plastered white right up over its eaves, with a heavy clay door, few windows and a double-beamed roof frame upstairs.

Dating from around 1782, the only Edo-period building at this hilltop shrine is an eight-legged gate with an open central passage and guardians behind lattice.

Shorinbo's 1744 bell tower in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is an open one-bay belfry on a stone base with inward-leaning round posts and two-step brackets. Listed in 2011.

Shorinbo's 1752 sutra storehouse in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is a 3.8-metre-square plastered store whose walls carry timber brackets and carvings. Registered in 2011.