Edo

Built in 1835, the Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Storehouse in Sekikawa, Niigata, is the oldest dated building on a sake brewer's estate, a clay tool store.

The Furumine Shrine Main Hall in the Isurugi Shrine grounds, Niigata City, is an 1837 shrine almost covered in carving, shown at its June festival; registered 2008.

A large thatched gatehouse from the end of the Edo period on a Sado doctor's estate, with a windowless front to the street and a passage between earthen rooms.

An 1826 storehouse moved in 1909 to the Hosaka estate in Joetsu: two plastered kura under one pantiled okiyane roof, with 4 rooms each holding 2 freestanding posts.

A stone pit five meters square and three deep in a Tokamachi wood held winter snow through summer as cold storage for sake brewing. Edo-period, registered 2002.

A thatched three-room farmhouse moved from Kashiwazaki to the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with exposed beams, earthen floors and a projecting stable entrance.

A single-storey detached wing of 1860 at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, older than the Meiji mansion and still used for tea gatherings and ceremonies.

A late Edo thatched farmhouse moved from snowy Shitada to the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with a stone-weighted stable roof and close-set wall posts.

The main gate of Honkoji in Sado, Niigata, a yakuimon of 1846 moved here in 1973, has a striking gable frame of tie-rails, struts and curved beams in Zen style.

The street wall of Honkoji in Sado, Niigata, a late Edo wall moved here in 1973, runs 14 metres beside the gate in plaster panels on a tuff base under tiles.

The main hall of Honkoji in Sado, Niigata, a late Edo Jodo Shinshu hall under a gabled roof, follows the standard Shin plan and shows careful brackets and transoms.

The Rengebuji Temple Karamon Gate on Sado is a mid-Edo four-legged gate in the Zen manner, with main posts rising to the ridge, curved tie beams and a tall strut.

The Rengebuji Temple Sutra Repository on Sado is a mid-Edo earthen storehouse with a timber porch, a good example of a temple sutra store, lined with boards.

The Rengebuji Temple Goma Hall on Sado, dated 1690 by its ridge tablet, is a three-bay hall for the Shingon fire ritual, linked to the guest hall by a corridor.

The Rengebuji Temple Bell Tower on Sado, built in 1615, is a skirted bell tower with a balconied upper storey that keeps Momoyama character despite later changes.

The Rengebuji Temple Taitokuin Mausoleum on Sado is a tiny mid-Edo shrine to the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, finely carved and painted, beside the Toshogu.

The Rengebuji Temple Toshogu Shrine on Sado is a tiny mid-Edo shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu, its whole exterior covered in carving and colour, housed in a shelter.

The Rengebuji Temple Dokkodo Hall on Sado is a gabled stone shrine by a spring up a side valley, with a stone inscribed 1622 and demon faces on its ridge ends.

The Rengebuji Temple Niomon Gate on Sado, built in 1822, is an eight-legged gate housing the guardian kings, with round pillars and plinths with donors' names.

The Rengebuji Temple Octagonal Hall on Sado is a mid-Edo eight-sided hall whose carved, three-stepped bracketing forms a dragon among clouds around the eaves.