Edo

The main hall of Nishifukuji in Higashiomi, Shiga, built in 1862 at the end of the Edo period, follows the typical Jodo plan, with carvings throughout.

The main house of the Hatsuda Family Residence in Otsu is a late Edo townhouse, remodelled in 1934, with iron-barred slit windows and a lattice on Nakamachi-dori.

The storehouse of the Hatsuda Family Residence in Otsu, a late Edo building behind the main house, has a neat torii-shaped doorway and keeps festival furnishings.

The wall of the Hatsuda Family Residence in Otsu, a late Edo timber wall 9.2 metres long, runs along the east lane from the main house, forming a period streetscape.

The Himurean Main House sits on the old Kyo Kaido highway in Omihachiman, an early 19th-century townhouse of 117 square metres, registered in 1998 and still in use.

A late 18th-century soy sauce brewer's townhouse on Omizo's merchant street in Takashima, Shiga. It keeps its tiled udatsu fire walls and houses a cafe and bakery.

A small early 19th-century storehouse behind the Fukui main house in Takashima, Shiga, holding household goods rather than soy sauce. Plaster above, boarding below.

An early 19th-century koji fermentation room in Takashima, Shiga, where soy sauce brewing began. Its long front roof slope gives it the look of a Shinto shrine hall.

An 1857 townhouse facing the old Nakasendo in Takamiya, Hikone, with its gable to the street, a broad earth-floored passage, eight rooms and a plastered facade.

An 1853 two-storey earthen storehouse in Takamiya, Hikone, older than the main house, with a plaster dragon on its door frame and walls sealed to the eaves.

Built in 1741, the oldest of nine buildings at the old Nishikatsu sake brewery in Omihachiman. Once lodging for brewery workers, it is now the Koyomi craft shop.

Myorakuji Temple Priests' Quarters in Kinomoto, Shiga, is an An'ei-era temple residence registered in 2023, with a formal shikidai entrance and a lofty earthen hall.

Myorakuji Temple Main Gate in Kinomoto, Shiga, is an 1807 four-legged gate on the old Hokkoku Kaido, registered in 2023, with carved beam-ends seen from the street.

Myorakuji Temple Bell Tower in Kinomoto, Shiga, is a one-bay belfry built in 1837 and registered in 2023, with leaning posts, two-step brackets and carved transoms.

Myorakuji Temple Drum Tower in Kinomoto, Shiga, is a 2-storey tower built in 1807 and registered in 2023, with flame-headed windows above and a flared skirt below.

Myorakuji Temple Main Hall in Kinomoto, Shiga, is a vast An'ei-era Shin hall registered in 2023, with a 697 square metre footprint and a 2020 seismic retrofit.

On Lake Biwa's north shore, Sugaura's villagers kept 1,281 documents recording their medieval self-rule and land disputes. They became a National Treasure in 2018.

A National Treasure of early Edo Japan: fifteen figures in a Kyoto pleasure quarter, the classical kinki shoga theme recast as shamisen, sugoroku, and love letters.

An 1846 house on Tanegashima, Kagoshima, an Important Cultural Property since 1994, built by a village headman, with an L-shaped plan typical of the island.

A late Edo samurai house on Tanegashima, registered in 2017. Its attic yielded a 1551 spear licence issued to Tanegashima Tokitaka and a 1513 paired portrait.