Edo
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The Sumiyoshi Taisha Saikan Hall is an 1828 suite of formal rooms behind the Shinkan Hall in Osaka, moved in 1915, with a raised chamber under a large tiled roof.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Shinkan West Gate is an 1828 four-legged gate fronting the Shinkan zone in Osaka, sharing the Kojumon's carved scheme but in bare wood and tile.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Omotosha Worship Hall and Offering Hall is an 1822 building in Osaka linking two zones and housing the shrine of the first high priest.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Omotosha Main Hall is an 1822 sanctuary in Osaka set indoors, the only one in the grounds, with a cypress-bark roof and rich metal fittings.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Kifunesha Main Hall is a late Edo one-bay shrine to a rain god behind the main halls in Osaka, matching its neighbour in form but not in detail.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Tachigikisha Main Hall is an 1828 one-bay shrine behind the main halls in Osaka, pairing a shop-shelf front with Sumiyoshi-style gable struts.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Tatsusha Main Hall is a late Edo shrine by the sacred pond in Osaka, built over a well in its unfloored inner room for a water goddess.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Great Torii Gate is an early Edo stone torii at the south entrance in Osaka, 5.7 m wide and 6.4 m high, near the sacred rice paddy.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Middle Gate is a late Edo gate past the stone stage in Osaka; 5.3 m wide with a tiled roof and lively carving, the shrine's largest gate.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Mizugaki Gate is a late Edo four-legged gate behind the First Sanctuary in Osaka, traditional in form but carved with thick, bold lines.
The late-Edo priests' wing of a tiny urban temple in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002. A townhouse lattice window marks the terakoya where Kawaguchi Ekai studied.
A late-Edo Buddhist hall of just 24 square metres in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002. Its palace-form shrine cabinet marks a rare urban Shugendo survival.
A late-Edo gate only 1.7 metres wide in Sakai, Osaka, registered in 2002 as a model of design for the way its curved rafters and low walls order the street.
A late Edo farmhouse on the Takenouchi Kaido in Taishi, Osaka, under a yamatomune roof of thatch flanked by tiles, repaired and reopened in 2004. Registered in 2002.
A late-Edo house in Kaizuka's old temple town, registered in 2003. Its closed seven-bay front and a stout window facing Gansenji suggest a samurai or official.
A small late-Edo townhouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, registered in 2003. It stands on ground 60 cm higher than its 1932 neighbor, yet its low roof sits beneath that house.
Built in 1855 on the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu, this wing pairs a formal shikidai entrance with 10- and 8-mat rooms set at right angles. Not open to visitors.
The mid-Edo main house of the Tanaka estate in Izumiotsu, a Kii-domain rest stop, spans 11 and a half by 7 bays around a vast earthen floor. Not open to visitors.
A headman-class farmhouse in Matsubara recorded as built in 1709, retiled with an attic added in the Tenpo era, and relocated in 2007. Still lived in; not open.
This late-Edo wall runs north from the Tanaka front gate along the old Kishu Kaido in Izumiotsu: 2.3 m high, 65 cm thick at the base, with an inuyarai guard below.