Edo
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The Kanda Shrine Earthen Wall, a late Edo wall of tile and clay courses 20 metres long, frames the approach to the Shinmon gate. Inside the gate its layers show.
Built in 1773, the Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Ichinosha Main Hall hides a bark-roofed sanctuary with an arched eave inside a tiled hall. How to see it.
The Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Gonosha Main Hall of 1860 is the twin of the Yonnosha hall, identical but for its porch carving. How to compare the pair.
The Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Sannosha Main Hall is a tile-roofed shrine of 1860, just 1.1 square metres, with a central post and two doors. What to look for.
At 0.49 square metres, the 1860 Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Yonnosha Main Hall is the smallest of 12, with a coarse bark roof and a carved pine porch.
The genkan at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, dates from about 1752, the oldest of the temple's four registered buildings. Its karahafu gable marks a formal entrance.
The shoin at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, is a late-Edo hall and the largest of the temple's four registered buildings. It looks two-storeyed but has a single lofty floor.
This gabled timber house in Higashiosaka was raised in the late Edo period and moved to its present site in 1872. It was registered in 2006 for its landscape value.
Late Edo town house of a Kawachi cotton merchant in Yao, Osaka, with an earth-floored hall, six rooms and a low loft with lattice windows. Registered in 2021.
Storehouse built in 1825 for a Kawachi cotton merchant in Yao, Osaka, called the cotton store on an 1842 plan; its white wall lines the street beside the main house.
Kyarabashi, an 1865 granite bridge on the old Kishu Kaido highway in Takaishi, Osaka, was moved to Takasago Park in 1988 and registered in 2008. Free to visit.
A late Edo storehouse behind the main house of a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024; the smallest of 12 buildings, it kept altar goods.
A late Edo rice store on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024; the estate's only round-tiled store, with a copper-clad north wall.
A late Edo rice storehouse at the pond-side corner of a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024, with plaster-encased window hoods on its gable.
A 1784 headman's house in Kusaka, Higashiosaka, registered in 2024: a 12-bay thatched yamatomune farmhouse with five kitchen hearths and a hidden attic room.
A late Edo tool storehouse on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024. At 59 m² it is the largest store, raised on a cut-stone boundary wall.
A late Edo plastered earthen wall enclosing a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024; 166 meters on a stone base that follows the slope.
A late Edo storehouse for furnishings on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024. It rises from the stone boundary wall and has curved purlins.
A late Edo bracket-arm garden gate and 21-meter plastered wall on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024, lining the path to the main house.
A late Edo two-storey barn on a Kusaka headman's estate in Higashiosaka, registered in 2024. It lines the east street, with four earth-floored rooms opening inward.