Edo
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The Main Hall of Fukura Kuchinomiya, Chokaisan Omonoimi Shrine: a small nagare-zukuri sanctuary of about 1711 with an unusual two-tier gable, registered in 2012.
The Kagura Hall of Warabioka Kuchinomiya, Chokaisan Omonoimi Shrine: a late Edo bell tower turned dance stage, where Warabioka Ennen is performed each May 3.
The Zuishin Gate of Warabioka Kuchinomiya, Chokaisan Omonoimi Shrine: a late Edo eight-legged gate that once held Buddhist guardian kings. Registered in 2007.
A late Edo two-storey earthen storehouse at the Naganuma sake brewery in Nagai, Yamagata, joined to the family home, with stepped plaster doors. Registered 2008.
An 1838 shop and family home at the Naganuma sake brewery in Nagai, Yamagata: 20 m long, with a doma on the north and six rooms to the south. Registered in 2008.
Yoshitei Minami-dozō in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a late Edo storehouse of 1830 to 1867. It survived the great fire of 1919, held raw silk, and was registered in 2003.
Built in 1844 below Mt. Chokai, this registered hall once headed Warabioka's mountain ascetics, joining a worship hall and priests' quarters under one copper roof.
The Uesugi Family Documents, 2,018 papers from the lords of Yonezawa, survive in their original folded, sealed form as Japan's first samurai National Treasure.
The house of the Kikuya merchants of Hagi, Yamaguchi, whose five buildings became an Important Cultural Property in 1974, among the oldest large townhouses in Japan.
The golden hall of the Suo provincial temple in Hofu, Yamaguchi, built in 1779 by the Mori lord, is a rare surviving great hall on its original Nara-period stones.
Daishōin in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, is one of two mausoleum temples of the Mōri lords of the Hagi domain. Its Main Hall, Kuri, Shoin, Bell Tower Gate, and Sutra Repository — rebuilt in the mid-eighteenth century after a fire — are all Important Cultural Properties of Japan. The adjoining Historic Site cemetery is lined with more than six hundred stone lanterns that are lit by candlelight each year on August 13 for the Hagi Mantōe festival.
The Worship Hall of Furukuma Shrine in Yamaguchi City, designated in 1949, fuses a two-storey gate with a worship room, its wings linking it to the Main Hall.
Designated in 1917, the Main Hall of Furukuma Shrine in Yamaguchi City carries carved struts of pine, bamboo and plum, held to be the oldest surviving in Japan.
The Kuniyasu house in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, the pre-1850 shop of a hair-oil maker on the old merchant street, is now the Honke Matsugane tourist centre near Kintaikyo.
The main gate of Kozanji in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, is a Zen-style four-legged gate whose frame keeps its mid-Muromachi form, though the eaves have been rebuilt.
The Nakano Family Residence Stone Wall in Shimonoseki is late Edo stonework 58 metres long and about 3 metres high, lining the east edge and entrance lane.
The Nakano Family Residence Grain Storehouse in Nagato is a late Edo two-storey storehouse, the oldest in the compound, said to have survived an Edo-period fire.
The Nakano Family Residence Main House in Shimonoseki is a late Edo thatched farmhouse with a six-room plan, a hipped roof ringed by tiled eaves and an altar room.
The Nakano Family Residence Barn in Shimonoseki is a mid-Edo outbuilding nine bays long, with a central cattle stall and deep eaves on scroll-carved brackets.
The kuri at Unpoji in Koshu, Yamanashi, held the kitchen and living quarters: a long thatched, gable-entry building of the early Edo period, the widest of the four halls.