Edo
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This late Edo storehouse in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, once touched the main house but was hauled north in the Meiji era and extended. It now serves as rooms.
This late Edo storehouse in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, was moved north in the Meiji era. Inside, two rooms; the west lost its upper floor to become a store.
This late Edo gatehouse in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, stretches 10 ken behind a sunken forecourt. Its east end turns north into a storehouse and a side door.
Attached to the kitchen of a Matsubara headman's farmhouse, this late Edo two-story storehouse is the estate's largest and opens an inner store onto the kitchen.
On a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo rice store stands on short posts so air can pass under the floor, and its walls stop at an earthen intermediate coat.
Built in 1805 for a family of village headmen in Matsubara, Osaka, this 439-square-meter farmhouse has a smoke roof over its earthen kitchen and an 1830 guest wing.
Running 18 bays along the north edge of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo shed held firewood and a water wheel; its long earthen wall is visible outside.
Facing the road at the corner of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo gatehouse has an attendants' room, a storeroom and a hip-and-gable roof of heavy tiles.
On a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo storehouse was set aside for imported goods such as sugar. Its roof rests on two beams of naturally curved timber.
Joined to the gate of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo tool storehouse shows a white wall and two upper windows to the road under a detached tiled roof.
Leaning on a storehouse wall on a Matsubara headman's estate, this 8-square-meter servants' rest room keeps a small roof that once led to a vanished storehouse.
Following a stone-lined water channel around a Matsubara headman's estate, this 57-meter tiled wall changes its outer finish from black plaster to boards and earth.
This late Edo bath building on a Matsubara headman's estate uses polished logs and open roof framing, with a shoji-lit dressing room and a hot-water doorway.
This small Edo-period guest lodge on a Matsubara headman's estate is where the family is said to have hosted the Osaka poet Hirose Kyokuso and loyalist activists.
Late Edo main house of a Kawachi cotton merchant in Yao, Osaka, under a yamatomune roof of thatch and tile; part became a post office in 1876. Registered in 2019.
Late Edo storehouse for household goods at a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka: 19 sq m, 3 plaster bands under the eaves, ship planks below. Listed 2019.
Late Edo storehouse where a Yao cotton merchant kept Kawachi cotton: ship planks on the street side, open lean-to facing the courtyard, sloping beams. Listed 2019.
The late Edo treatment building of an acupuncture house in Osaka, with a steep gable, aisle roofs and four rooms behind an earth-floored passage. Registered in 2019.
The Hiroumi Family Residence Living Room Storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, is a late-Edo storehouse linked to the reception rooms by a passage and used for tea wares.
The Hiroumi Family Residence Lower Storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, is a late-Edo storehouse split in two inside, with a door at each end and a ridge-beam roof frame.