Edo

Begun in 1858 for a raw silk broker, this Ogose merchant house keeps its shop room and through-passage. Blade marks from the 1866 Bushu uprising survive inside.

A late Edo well hall south of the Niomon gate at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, with a 3-meter-square well floor, a Suitengu room and fine carving.

A 1783 shrine, middle of three behind the Shodendo at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, holding five deities, with a red ochre frame and painted gable.

A tiny 1787 one-bay shrine of plain wood behind the Shodendo at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, its eaves crowded with fine carving. Registered 2017.

A 1761 bell tower at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, on a double base with a boarded lower storey and open bell floor, made tall by later work. Registered 2017.

A 1785 one-bay shrine behind the Shodendo at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, almost identical to the Sanbo Kojin Shrine built two years later. Registered 2017.

A late Edo merchant house on the old Nikko Kaido in Satte, Saitama, with a gabled front and a hipped rear. Registered in 2009, it now operates as a cafe.

The main house of the Former Koshundo Clinic in Minano, Saitama, is a late Edo house where a doctor-poet opened his surgery in 1926 and the poet Kaneko Tota grew up.

A late Edo yakuimon gate, 2.8 meters wide, at a headman's estate in Kumagaya, set between a stone storehouse and a plastered range under a curved gabled roof.

A late Edo farmhouse in Kumagaya with a broad earth-floored work area, a four-room grid and a raised guest room for high-ranking visitors, open as a museum.

A small late Edo udegimon gate, 1.5 meters wide, guarding the main garden of a Kumagaya headman's estate, with doubled bracket arms, curved rafters and plank doors.

A late Edo storage range doubling as a boundary wall at a Kumagaya headman's estate: 21 bays long, white plaster over Oya stone, six windows along its south face.

A late Edo storehouse of a fertilizer merchant on the Nikko Kaido in Koshigaya, Saitama. Registered in 2025 as a standard of design, now open as a community cafe.

A late Edo purification pavilion at Hisaizu Shrine in Koshigaya, Saitama. Carved dragon heads, openwork brackets and cusped gables fill just 4.4 square metres.

The Main Hall of Koshigaya Hisaizu Shrine, the principal guardian shrine of Koshigaya City in Saitama Prefecture, is a remarkable late-Edo-period structure built in 1789. Designed in the three-bay nagare-zukuri style with a copper-plate kawarabō roof, degumi bracket complexes, and double-tier rafters, it is renowned for the elaborate, finely carved unpainted woodwork that adorns its eaves, beams, and brackets. Officially registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property on March 13, 2025, the shrine occupies a long, tree-lined precinct with deep historical ties to the Tokugawa shogunate, scholar Hirata Atsutane, and the wisteria designated as a Saitama Prefecture Natural Monument.

A late Edo hatago on the Nakasendo in Okegawa, Saitama, run as a timber shop since the 1860s. Registered in 2004 for its deep dashigeta eaves and full-width lattice.

Kongoji Temple Gate in Kawajima, Saitama: an 1852 four-legged gate, only 3.0 m wide, finished with bracket sets, a carved dragon over the lintel and lion-nose ends.

Kongoji Temple Dainichi Hall in Kawajima, Saitama: a tiny mid-Edo hall with a pyramidal copper roof, old-style carvings outside and old paintings within.

A late-Edo thatched farmhouse in Ina Town, registered in 2019. Adze marks and hand-forged nails date it; six rooms and a formal alcove room. Not open to visitors.

Suisokuken in the woods of Heirinji in Niiza, Saitama, is a late Edo farmhouse moved from Hida in 1938, with the stout frame and adze-cut beams of its homeland.