Edo

The Rengebuji Temple Hassodo Hall on Sado is a mid-Edo three-bay hall whose five-stepped bracketing and thatch-form copper roof give it an outsized roof.

The Rengebuji Temple Mitsugondo Hall on Sado, built in 1844, is a small pyramidal-roofed hall on the Sado Shikoku pilgrimage, with carefully carved interior details.

The Rengebuji Temple Mumyo Bridge on Sado is a late Edo stone girder bridge on the path to the Kobodo, its 36 deck slabs carved underneath with Sanskrit letters.

Built in 1855 as a village headman's residence and now the main hall of a kappo ryokan in Kashiwazaki, Niigata, this 350-square-metre house was registered in 2005.

Built in 1850 as the honjin of Yakiyama on the Aizu Kaido, this thatched house in Aga, Niigata became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2024. Not open.

Registered in 2000, this mid-18th-century Niigata farmhouse housed the Furuyama village headmen. Its T-shaped plan lifts a bell-striker roof over 349 square metres.

A 20-square-metre storehouse on a Niigata headman's compound, with a coffered ceiling and a Buddhist altar built into its ground floor. Registered in 2000.

Saieiji Rokuwatei in Tokamachi, Niigata, is a 34-square-metre hall of 1857. Once the main hall of the dissolved Eitokuji temple, it was registered in 2000.

The Inari Shrine Mikoshi Storehouse in Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, is a late Edo store for the portable shrine, built like a gabled shrine with a porch and brackets.

Inside Sado's Edo magistrate's office sat a refinery. Its 928 excavated items—172 lead plates weighing seven tons, ore mortars, ceramics—reveal how a World Heritage gold mine truly ran.

Built around 1646 in Kyoto by Ichijo Ekan, a son of Emperor Go-Yozei, this thatched imperial tea villa was moved to Kamakura with its garden stones in 1959.

The Former Ito Family House, a headman's farmhouse of around 1700 floored in split bamboo, stands in Kawasaki's open-air folk museum, which its rescue founded.

Yugyo-ji's stone and mud walls turn at right angles from the main gate to enclose the forecourt. Its coursed andesite stone wall, about 1.9 metres high, is late Edo work.

The Sojiji Koshokutsu, an 1850s shoin house moved from Tsuruoka in 1911, is the chief abbot's home, with carved transoms and two tatami rooms. Registered 2005.

The Sojiji Hokodo, an 1850s hall moved from Tsuruoka in 1911, hosted the first service at the relocated temple and keeps late-Edo carving across a 30 m front.

An 1867 purification pavilion at Ryukoji in Fujisawa, just 5.1 square meters yet full of late-Edo carving: turtles on waves and a dragon carved in the round.

Built in 1720, the oldest registered building at Ryukoji in Fujisawa enshrines Myoken, bodhisattva of the North Star, under a coffered ceiling by the approach.

Painted by Yosa Buson in 1771, this National Treasure album captures ten pleasures of nature in palm-sized scenes and pairs with Ike no Taiga's Jubenzu.

Juben-zu, Ike no Taiga's 1771 National Treasure album, depicts ten conveniences of villa life in palm-sized leaves, with ties to Buson and Kawabata Yasunari.

Uragami Gyokudo's ink-only snowscape Toun Shisetsu-zu, a National Treasure once owned by Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata. History, artistry, and viewing tips.