Edo
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A 44-metre dry-stone boundary wall of the late Edo period at Komagano in Watarai, Mie. Undressed local stone, a clipped maki hedge above, registered in 2016.
A two-storey earthen storehouse of the late Edo period at Komagano in Watarai, Mie. Boarded walls, a white plaster band, an okiyane roof; registered in 2016.
The Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Tool Storehouse in Matsusaka, dated to 1855 by brush inscriptions, is the only building of the koji shop that came through the 1893 fire.
The Shimozu gatehouse in Isshinden, Tsu, faces the street before Senjuji. Its lattices and slatted windows mark a late-Edo temple retainer's home. Listed 2014.
Registered in 2011, Jakushoji Kannon Hall in Ise buries its timber frame under thick storehouse plaster, and shelters a Kannon image tied to Senhime's memory.
Dated to 1839 by its ridge tag, Jakushoji Konpira Hall in Ise packs full temple carpentry into seventeen square metres. A dragon covers its mirror ceiling.
Jakushoji Gate in Ise was raised around 1797 by Gessen, the painter-monk who gave his fees to the poor. Its zelkova frame carries almost no carving at all.
A late-Edo thatched farmhouse in Mitake, Misugi, Tsu, with a hip-and-gable roof and a southern Iga floor plan, registered for its setting among the Mitake cherries.
The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) Main House in Kihoku, Mie, is a forestry family's late Edo home of 270 square meters, framed in choice timber. Registered 2021.
The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) West Storehouse in Kihoku, Mie, is a late Edo kura for tableware with roof framing reinforced by clamping beams. Registered 2021.
The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) East Storehouse in Kihoku, Mie, is a late Edo kura of 91 square meters that held farm and forestry tools. Registered 2021.
The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) South Storehouse in Kihoku, Mie, is a late Edo kura, the only one here roofed with heavy hongawara tiles. Registered in 2021.
A late Edo multi-chamber climbing kiln at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, rising 9.6 meters over 34 meters of hillside, used until the Showa 40s and free to view.
The well shelter and board fence of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, shelter a stone-curbed well and divide the inner court from the garden. Late Edo; closed.
The storehouse of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, rises two storeys against a wall on the line of Ueno Castle's lost outer moat. Late Edo; registered in 2014.
The main house of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, is a late Edo home built for sub-vassals of the Todo Shinshichiro house. Registered 2014; closed to visitors.
The front storehouse of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, measures three metres square. Small as it is, it anchors the street frontage of a late Edo warrior plot.
The gate and earthen wall of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, form its street face. A one-bay bracket-arm gate, 1.8 m wide, marks a sub-vassal's modest rank.
The oldest of the nine Misedoi structures in Owase, this late-Edo earthen storehouse kept the family's tableware under a fully tiled roof with crested ridge tiles.
Main hall of 1857 at Myokeji, a Takada-school Shin temple founded in 1669 in Hisai, Tsu, Mie, with a stepped hipped roof and decorative canopy; still in use.