Edo

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Jokoji Temple Main Hall
Niigata 江戸中期
Jokoji Temple Main Hall

Jokoji Temple Main Hall in Joetsu, Niigata, is a Shin Buddhist hall rebuilt around 1679, nearly 28 m square under a shingled roof, carved inside as the Pure Land.

Jonenji Temple Main Hall
Niigata 江戸後期
Jonenji Temple Main Hall

Jonenji Temple Main Hall in Murakami, Niigata, is an 1818 Pure Land hall built like a white-plastered storehouse, with a two-storey void for its great Amida Buddha.

Hojo Family Residence (Kanai Town, Sado District, Niigata Prefecture)
Niigata 江戸後期
Hojo Family Residence (Kanai Town, Sado District, Niigata Prefecture)

An 18th-century thatched farmhouse in Izumi on Sado, home to a line of herbal doctors, designated in 1977 for its offset four-room plan and slender, refined timbers.

Yahiko Shrine Tobashira Auxiliary Shrine Building
Niigata 江戸中期
Yahiko Shrine Tobashira Auxiliary Shrine Building

Tobashira auxiliary shrine at Yahiko Shrine, Niigata: a thatched hall of 1694 founded by a Nagaoka lord, later home to the guardian gods of the Okozu channel.

Yamaguchi Family Residence (Shimoide, Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture)
Niigata 江戸後期
Yamaguchi Family Residence (Shimoide, Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture)

The Yamaguchi Family Residence in Itoigawa is a 1779 farmhouse dated by its building accounts, valued for its four-room plan and its curved, adze-hewn beams.

Arakawa Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall
Niigata 江戸
Arakawa Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall

Arakawa Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Tainai, Niigata: an 1841 hip-and-gable hall with a richly carved porch and heavy beams, joined to the sanctuary.

Arakawa Shrine Main Hall
Niigata 江戸
Arakawa Shrine Main Hall

Arakawa Shrine Main Hall in Tainai, Niigata: a tall one-bay sanctuary of 1841 carved with flowing waves, recalling the wealth of a Kitamaebune trading port.

Gyokeitei Back Gate
Niigata 江戸
Gyokeitei Back Gate

Ikinariya's rear gate, a late-Edo service gate on the hill behind the buildings, has a single lattice leaf with a sliding wicket and carefully chamfered posts.

Gyogata Innkeeper's House
Niigata 江戸
Gyogata Innkeeper's House

Ikinariya's main building, in a Niigata ryotei founded around 1700, is a late-Edo two-story wooden hall with an L-shaped doma, one of ten structures registered in 2000.

Isurugi Shrine Worship Hall
Niigata 江戸
Isurugi Shrine Worship Hall

The Isurugi Shrine Worship Hall in Niigata City is a late Edo hip-and-gable hall with a railed veranda and porch beam ends carved as baku; registered in 2008.

Isurugi Shrine Main Hall
Niigata 江戸
Isurugi Shrine Main Hall

The Isurugi Shrine Main Hall near Toyosaka Station, Niigata City, is a gabled sanctuary of 1796 whose carved patterns reflect its age; registered in 2008.

Inari Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall
Niigata 江戸
Inari Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall

The Inari Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, built about 1815, joins a hip-and-gable hall with a chidori-hafu to the main hall.

Inari Shrine Main Hall
Niigata 江戸
Inari Shrine Main Hall

The Inari Shrine Main Hall in Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, is a gabled sanctuary of 1815 with tapered round posts, degumi brackets and a gable projected in two stages.

Enami Family Residence Main Building
Niigata 江戸
Enami Family Residence Main Building

Registered in 2025, the Main Building of the Enami Family Residence in Niigata City is a late Edo farmhouse whose thatched roof covers a twenty-one mat Ochanoma.

Enami Family Residence Shed
Niigata 江戸
Enami Family Residence Shed

The Shed of the Enami Family Residence in Niigata City, registered in 2025, is a late Edo outbuilding split into a bedding room, a book store and a charcoal store.

Ohashi Family Main House
Niigata 江戸
Ohashi Family Main House

A late Edo farmhouse at Hossue in Nagaoka, Niigata, registered in 2011: a hipped thatch roof 13m, an earth-floored niwa, a four-room plan and an attached stable.

Okkonoki Main House
Niigata 江戸
Okkonoki Main House

Okkonoki Main House in Ojiya, Niigata: a thatched chumon farmhouse of 1867 with fine tatami rooms, saved by its hamlet after the 2004 quake and run as a guesthouse.

Kappo Tochu Main Building
Niigata 江戸
Kappo Tochu Main Building

Kappo Tochu Honkan in Ojiya, Niigata, is a late-Edo three-storey wooden restaurant listed in 2015. Kawai Tsugunosuke reportedly lunched in its Plum Room in 1868.

Former Iida Family Residence, Main Building
Niigata 江戸
Former Iida Family Residence, Main Building

An 1853 thatched chumon-style farmhouse in the snowy mountains of Joetsu, Niigata, registered in 2014, with a massive frame.

Gokurakuji Temple Sutra Repository
Niigata 江戸
Gokurakuji Temple Sutra Repository

An 1827 clay-walled sutra store in Kashiwazaki with a hipped front roof, gabled rear, jewel finial and karahafu porch, housing an octagonal revolving sutra case.