Edo
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An Edo-period earthen storehouse at Hakubotan's founding site in Saijo, with a 1675 ridge-tag copy, a tile-lattice dado and two drip-tile courses; registered 2017.
A late-Edo stone well at Hakubotan's Tenpogura in Saijo, a six-sided curb 66 cm a side carved with the name Tenpo-i; registered in 2017 as a model of design.
The Hida family's main house on Ōsakishimojima in Kure is the oldest of five registered buildings, a late-Edo tsushi-nikai farmhouse finished with a townhouse's care.
The ceremonial gate of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima. A late-Edo copper-roofed gate 1.7 metres wide, it divided the guest-room garden from the forecourt.
The main gate and attendant's room of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima. The 3.6-metre gate is said to have come from a Yoshida domain jinya.
The main house of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, rebuilt around 1779. Its timber frame pairs an early-modern farmhouse core with modern openness.
The sake storehouse of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, built in 1733. A 22-metre plaster kura with just two internal posts, it housed the family's brewing.
The storehouse and detached room of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima. The kura of about 1702 is the oldest building here and survived a great fire in 1770.
Dated to the late Edo period and registered in 2014, Fukusenbo Kuri in Hiroshima is the priest's residence, older than the 1948 hall it joins by a covered corridor.
Built in 1830 and registered in 2014, Fukusenbo Sanmon in Hiroshima is a single-bay yakuimon gate 2.4 metres wide, its ridge beam filled with carved cloud dragons.
Built in 1954 and registered in 2014, Fukusenbo Shoro in Hiroshima packs continuous bracketing and tail rafters onto a footprint of just 9.4 square metres.
A late Edo earthen storehouse at the Miyake Family Residence in Kaita, Hiroshima, with an eave along its whole front and a tool store walled in at one end.
The late Edo rear gatehouse of the Miyake Family Residence in Kaita, Hiroshima, which once faced a riverbank and has a stable wing beside its off-center gateway.
A late Edo merchant house in Kaita, Hiroshima, with its gable to the old Saigoku Kaido, posts and beams modeled in its plastered upper floor, and a deep eave.
A late Edo rice storehouse at the Miyake Family Residence in Kaita, Hiroshima, with a central door, flanking windows and board hoods set in its white walls.
The Murakami Family Residence Stone Wall wraps a Fukuyama hilltop estate, rising 4.2 metres at one corner, with castle-style corners and traces of a Meiji-era fire.
The Murakami Family Residence Clothing Storehouse is a late Edo dozo in Fukuyama, clad in vertical boards with plastered eaves and even plastered interior walls.
The Murakami Family Residence Well House is a small late Edo shelter in Fukuyama over a well with a granite curb and stone-paved washing area, a rare survival.
The Murakami Family Residence Rice Storehouse is a small late Edo dozo in Fukuyama whose pantiled lean-to wraps two sides and once served as a pickling shed.
The Murakami Family Residence Nagayamon Gate is a 16-metre late Edo gatehouse in Fukuyama, with storage and living rooms either side of a 3.7-metre gateway.