Edo
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Shorinbo's priests' quarters in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, built in 1801, is a 22-by-14-metre gable-entry kuri with an earthen entrance hall, registered in 2011 as a model.
Shorinbo's main gate in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, dates from 1665 and is the temple's oldest building: a copper-roofed four-legged gate with cusped eaves, listed in 2011.
Shorinbo's 1852 main hall in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, is a 629-square-metre Shin Buddhist hall with a tiled hip-and-gable roof, registered in 2011 as a model of its type.
This late Edo corridor at Shorinbo in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, links hall and residence; a plaster wall with bell windows splits it into two lanes. Registered in 2011.
The lowest Edo-period check dam on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima: a surviving 9.6-metre east wing of dry-laid granite with stepped split stone. Registered 2006
An 8.8-metre stone check dam of about 1835 on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, with stepped granite, an arched plan and a sagging crest. Registered 2006.
A 36-metre stone check dam of about 1832 on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, with stepped granite, an arched plan and a 1996 dig down to its bedrock.
A 26-metre stone check dam on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, where an Edo random-laid wing meets a Taisho diagonal wall and bulging apron. Registered 2006.
A 32-metre check dam on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, rebuilt in the Taisho era with a dressed-stone spillway, a bulging apron and projecting wings.
The largest stone check dam on the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima: 13 metres of stepped granite raised in four layers from 1773, still working. Registered 2006.
A late Edo stone check dam in a side valley of the Dodogawa in Fukuyama, Hiroshima: 11 metres of stepped granite in an arched plan, extended twice. Registered 2006.
Mid-Edo four-legged gate of Nanzenbo in Tomo, Fukuyama, topped by a bell chamber, with red-ochre timbers, cusped and round windows and sharply upturned eaves.
Late-Edo main hall of the Jodo Shinshu temple Nanzenbo in Tomo, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, with a tiled hip-and-gable roof, the typical Shin plan and fine period ornament.
An 1868 hipped-roof shelter over a stone well and washing floor at the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama, with posts set on stone and walls left open above and below.
The 1826 main house of the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama: 29 metres of stepped gables, an earth-floored kitchen and a wing built for an altar from the Honganji.
A late Edo woodshed east of the Nobuoka main house in Fukuyama, with a timber rack on its south side, identified with the “east wood shed” in the family records.
A late Edo bracket-arm gate with flanking walls at the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama, said to have served a room for honoured guests, with a lattice transom.
Built in 1808, the west storehouse is the oldest of the eight Nobuoka buildings in Fukuyama: a two-storey store for household goods with varied namako tilework.
The 1826 rice store of the Nobuoka compound in Fukuyama: a two-storey earthen storehouse in black plaster banded with namako tilework, with the east gate beside it.
A mid-Edo stone well at Hakubotan's Enpogura in Saijo, with a six-sided curb 97 cm a side and a well house built of stone up to its roof; registered in 2017.