Edo

Late Edo nagayamon gatehouse of a Sakai farming estate, registered in 2002: hip-and-gable tiled roof, black plaster street front and a row of lattice windows.

A mid-Edo earthen wall running 103 metres along the Amano River at Kongoji, Kawachinagano. Plastered on a stone base, it once enclosed the east-bank sub-temples.

A mid-Edo former kitchen hall of the sub-temple Chuin in Kongoji's Honbo, Kawachinagano. It faces the garden, with three 8-mat rooms and a broad veranda.

A mid-Edo chapel from the sub-temple Chuin, now in Kongoji's Honbo garden in Kawachinagano. Three bays square, it has a pyramidal copper roof and a rear altar bay.

An 1859 entrance and reception suite joined to the main hall of Saikyoji in Izumi, Osaka. Its shikidai has a slatted transom and beams carved with waves and clouds.

A purification pavilion of around 1816 in the front garden of Saikyoji in Izumi, Osaka. Four inward-leaning posts and carved bracket arms frame a stone basin.

An 1808 Jodo Shinshu main hall in Izumi, Osaka, 15 metres wide, with an open outer hall and a raised sanctuary dressed in carving, colour and gold. Registered 2014.

Jigan-ji's drum tower in Yao, Osaka, dates to the late Edo period. Its offset upper storey with cusped windows rises above the earthen wall beside the main gate.

Jigan-ji's ablution pavilion in Yao, Osaka, covers barely 12 square metres. Carved details date it to the 1660s, the oldest of the temple's five registered buildings.

Jigan-ji's main hall in Yao, Osaka, rebuilt in 1817, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. This Shinshu hall is 19 metres wide and centres a temple town from 1606.

Built in 1721 at a Shingon temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, Jizoji Hondo has a pyramidal tiled roof, a coved coffered ceiling and a celestial figure at its altar.

Built in 1674 as the main hall of a branch temple in Mie and moved to Osaka in 1953, this deep hall at Shitennoji Temple is entered through its gable end.

Built in 1808 as the gate of a hall enshrining Tokugawa Ieyasu, this small four-legged gate at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka now stands before the Prince Shotoku hall.

Once the Shoten hall of a Mie branch temple, this three-bay pyramidal building at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka now shelters ashes before their final interment.

Built as the gate of the hall enshrining the Tokugawa shoguns, this 6.2 square metre bow-roofed gate at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka is carved with a guardian dragon.

The gate of Shinkoji in Osaka's temple quarter, a one-bay yakuimon of the mid-Edo period facing Matsuyamachi-suji, is admired for its finely carved beams.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Kaku Torii Gate is an early Edo stone torii before the Kojumon Gate in Osaka, with chamfered square pillars and an upswept lintel 4.1 m high.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha North Great Torii Gate is an early Edo stone torii at the north entrance in Osaka, moved in early Meiji; one of four great torii, 6.5 m high.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha North Mizugaki Gate is a late Edo four-legged gate behind the First Sanctuary in Osaka, one of an identical pair guarding the rear of the halls.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Kofukumon Gate is an early Edo four-legged gate beside the Kojumon in Osaka, the same size but deliberately plain, marking it as the side gate.