Edo

A late Edo samurai house in Sakura, Chiba, registered in 2016. Its plan splits guests from family into two rows, and the tatami room omits nageshi entirely.

Choshi lost its old townscape in 1945; this net barn survived. Dated by tradition to the 1860s, it seals nets behind deep eaves and blank walls. Registered 2018.

Same design as its neighbour, three-fifths the size, one window moved from the upper gable to the ground floor. Two Keio-era net barns side by side. Registered 2018.

The main house of the Shibuya Family Residence in Kamagaya, Chiba, built in 1826, is a thatched farmhouse with a formal entrance, the oldest building in the city.

The rice storehouse of the Shibuya Family Residence in Kamagaya, Chiba, dated to 1848, is a two-storey earthen storehouse with plaster walls and weatherboards.

Built in 1847, the main house of the Someya residence in Kashiwa ranks among western Chiba's largest farmhouses, its L-shaped earthen wing recalling a headman's life.

The Nagayamon gate faces south along the front of the Someya estate, a gateway flanked by rooms east and west. It is held to be the oldest of the eight buildings.

The document storehouse of 1867 is the second-oldest building at the Someya residence. Its thick plastered walls sheltered the archive that now dates the estate.

Registered in 2011, the late-Edo shoin at Daiganji in Chiba City arranges nine tatami rooms around shared verandas, preserving the plan of a Pure Land seminary.

Built in the mid-Edo period and registered in 2011, Daiganji Main Hall in Chiba City is one of very few surviving buildings from the Kanto Pure Land seminaries.

The Nemoto Family Residence Main House in Abiko is a late-Edo headman's farmhouse with a large earth floor, 3 linked reception rooms and a shikidai entrance.

The Nemoto Family Residence South Storehouse in Abiko is a 2-storey plastered storehouse of 1867, with a west lean-to holding its doorway and a small room.

In Narashino, Chiba, the Hirose Family Residence Main House preserves a late-Edo grain merchant's rooms and Boso farmhouse details, built by a temple carpenter.

A wooden 1866 gate fronting a pharmacy that has served Chonan's old post town for 300 years, its angled wing walls forming a forecourt to welcome travelers.

The oldest of nine registered buildings at a Futtsu soy sauce brewery: a late Edo earthen storehouse beside the shop, with double plastered doors facing the road.

A late-Edo storehouse said to have been moved from the Takanashi family in 1892, plastered black and white right up over the eaves. Registered 2018; not open.

One of the oldest buildings on a Noda soy brewer's estate: a late-Edo two-storey storehouse with gravel packed inside its walls against fire and theft. Not open.

A late Edo storehouse at the Mogi Shichiroemon soy-sauce brewers' estate in Noda, Chiba, still bearing scorch marks thought to date from the great Noda fire of 1821.

The household shrine of Noda's Mogi Shichizaemon soy brewers: an earthen sanctuary of 1808 with plaster foxes on its facade, oldest of 13 registered structures.

A tiny purification pavilion of 1808 beside a Noda soy brewer's household shrine, carved with Chinese lions, sacred foxes and a fox wedding procession. Private.