Edo

A late Edo thatched yamatomune farmhouse in Amami, Kawachinagano, moved here around 1900, with a vast doma, four-room plan and old Kawachi details. Now a cafe.

Genshoji Temple Priests' Quarters, a later Edo temple residence in Osaka's Shitaderamachi, has a hip-and-gable front, gabled back and a smoke vent; registered 2008.

Genshoji Temple Main Gate in Osaka's Shitaderamachi is a late Edo yakuimon 3.2 m wide, with high-set beams, a board ceiling and deep carving; registered in 2008.

Komyoji Temple Priests' Quarters in Osaka are a late Edo temple kitchen and residence with a ridge smoke vent, white plaster walls and a lattice-gabled entry porch.

Komyoji Temple Main Gate in Osaka is an 1866 yakuimon gate facing Matsuyamachi-suji, 3.2 meters wide, with flanking walls and a carved dragon under the roof.

Komyoji Temple Main Hall in Osaka's Shitaderamachi dates from 1706. Its hip-and-gable roof, five-bay front and classic Pure Land plan led to registration in 2008.

Kotani Family Residence Main House in Sakai is a rare mid-Edo farmhouse of 469 square meters with a stepped yamatomune roof, remodeled in 1809. Exterior view only.

Main building of the Kotanijō museum: a late-Edo home of the Kotani, village headmen. A copper-clad gabled wing meets a tiled reception hall and a stepped entrance.

At the east end of the front row, this late-Edo storehouse, once a rice store and now the exhibition room, is the only one of the five registered as a model of design.

The oldest of the museum's five buildings, this mid-Edo gate is said to have come from the Hakata domain around 1871. Its front has board doors and comb-shaped windows.

Built in 1828, the oldest of eight registered buildings on a Takatsuki farm, this small clay-walled kura joins a row of white-plastered storehouses facing the road.

A late Edo two-storey storehouse on a Takatsuki hill farmstead, its placed roof wrapped in lime plaster, standing between the gatehouse and an older kura.

Late Edo building on the west street of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: retirement rooms, a stable and a side gate, with two different roof ends.

Late Edo storehouse for household goods on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: tall, two storeys, no ornament, with rafters sealed in white plaster.

Late Edo guest wing of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: a formal alcove built with slim timbers and low ceilings, and landscapes by Kaneko Sesso.

Late Edo main house of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: earthen work floor, six rooms, slatted windows hiding a full upper floor, layered tiled roofs.

Late Edo storehouse at the corner of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: only 21 square meters, but with eaves and gable edges sealed in continuous plaster.

Late Edo walls of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: 105 meters in all, sealed in plaster around the garden, with an exposed frame at one corner.

Late Edo link building on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: two storeys at one end, one at the other, built to the standard of the main house.

Late Edo barn on a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: a deep canopy on bracket arms and three rooms that held pickles, brushwood and farm tools.