Edo
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A late Edo storehouse for household goods in Nabari, entered at the gable end, finished in white plaster with a 3-tier eaves band and a namako-kabe tiled base.
A late Edo townhouse and former inn in Nabari with a gabled north wing, a hip-and-gable south wing and a loft storey plastered white into the eaves. Registered 2019.
A late Edo granary in the corner of a Nabari townhouse garden, its clay walls left at the intermediate coat with a 2-tier eaves band, facing the main rooms.
A late Edo farmhouse of 175 square meters in Komono, Mie, with a swelling hip-and-gable tile roof, a small gable and an earth-floored east half. Registered 2020.
A later Edo yakuimon gate in Komono, Mie, 4.2 meters wide, with a swelling tile roof, a signed ridge tile and a drainage channel from Shigemori's 1968 garden.
A late Edo earthen storehouse in Komono, Mie, with a separate floating tile roof, board-clad ground floor, plastered upper floor and copper door. Registered in 2020.
Thatched main hall of the ancient temple Jionji in Sagae, Yamagata, rebuilt in 1618 by the Mogami lords; its roof was restored in 2024; five hidden Buddhas within.
The oldest of five merchant storehouses in Nagai, Yamagata, this late Edo two-storey kura has tall east windows closed by heavy shutters in stepped plaster work.
The oldest of twelve registered buildings at a Yonezawa sake brewery: a late Edo storehouse whose roof sweeps down in one plane, framed on doubled tie beams.
Seifuso in Momiji Park, Yamagata City, was the shoin of Hodoji temple: a late Edo hall whose raised jodan-no-ma keeps an alcove, shelves and a garden-facing bay.
A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at Zenpoji in Yamagata, built in 1855 by northern-trade merchants, its tiered altars holding over five hundred rakan figures.
A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at Zenpoji in Yamagata, a late-Edo two-story gate holding Bishamonten and Idaten as guardians rather than the usual temple kings.
A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at Zenpoji in Yamagata, a compact four-legged gate covered in deep carvings of waves, animals, and the twelve zodiac signs.
A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at the innermost point of Zenpoji in Yamagata, its wave-shaped roof modeled on the undersea dragon palace of the sea deity.
Daisenbo Nagayamon Gate in Yuza, Yamagata: an 18.68-metre zelkova gatehouse of about 1834 on the Omonoimi Shrine approach, with chrysanthemum-crest eave tiles.
A Yamagata sake brewer's office and home from around 1695: a thatched farmhouse fronted by a two-storey office remodelled in 1932, registered for the streetscape.
A mid-18th-century earthen-walled brewhouse in Yamagata, 428 square metres on one floor, the working core of the Taruhei brewery and registered as a model of design.
An early 19th-century brewing storehouse in Yamagata whose east gable meets the street in a row of triangular roof ends; with the main house it is a local landmark.
Chikaoka Family Residence Main House in Kanayama, Yamagata: a large late Edo chumon-style farmhouse with a projecting stable wing and a snow-melting pond.
The Tsukiyama Shrine Main Hall at Fukura Kuchinomiya, Chokaisan Omonoimi Shrine: a 1711-era twin of the Main Hall whose carvings differ in detail. Registered 2012.