Edo

Oda Urakusai's two-and-a-half-mat teahouse of about 1618, known for its calendar-papered walls and slanting wall, now standing in Inuyama's Urakuen Garden.

Rebuilt in the Keian era of the 1640s, the Main Hall of Shokaiji in Inazawa, Aichi, sets an early Edo frame around a Kamakura altar platform and ceiling.

Oda Urakusai's retirement residence of about 1618, built beside his teahouse Joan in Kyoto and now in Inuyama's Urakuen, with doors painted by Hasegawa Tohaku.

Ordered by the third shogun Iemitsu and finished in 1646, Takisan Tosho-gu in Okazaki keeps its main hall, gate and other buildings in vivid lacquer and colour.

On Mt. Hōrai in Aichi, this shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu is tied to a legend of his birth. Its cypress-bark halls of 1651 are an Important Cultural Property.

A vermilion two-storey gate of 1651, donated by Shogun Iemitsu, on the long stone-stepped approach to Horaiji in Shinshiro, Aichi, with carved tigers and qilin.

The Former Hotta Family Residence in Tsushima, Aichi, is an Owari merchant townhouse of 1765 and 1770, designated in 1978. Three storehouses and a tea room survive.

The shoin behind the main hall of Mandaraji in Konan, Aichi, built between 1663 and 1674 and used to entertain the shogun's inspectors. Important Cultural Property.

The 1632 main hall of Mandaraji in Konan, Aichi, donated by Hachisuka Iemasa, whose plan recalls the imperial Shishinden. Important Cultural Property.

The Omoya of the Mochizuki Family Residence in Shinshiro, Aichi, is a late 18th-century thatched dwelling block whose fire, earth floor and stable stand next door.

Rokusho Shrine in Okazaki, Aichi, revered by the Matsudaira clan, keeps three richly carved and painted buildings of 1636, designated Important Cultural Properties.

The Asahi Shrine Lattice Wall, a banbei screen of 1809 beside a torii in central Nagoya, was registered in 2022. Its lattice, copper roof and access explained.

Anchoji Sanmon in Toyota City, Aichi, is an 1832 temple gate registered in 2017. Its upper floor held a Buddhist altar, not a bell, a form rare at Shinshu temples.

A late Edo mud-walled storehouse at the rear of a townhouse plot in Inuyama, Aichi. Two storeys, 59 square metres, round-log posts, a deep eave over the doors.

A late Edo townhouse facing Honmachi in Inuyama, Aichi. 175 square metres, with an earth-floored passage, two rows of rooms and a low half-storey. Registered 2005.

The ōiden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, built around 1856, encloses the older honden and is shaped like a full main hall with a carved canopy.

At Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, a small Edo-period honden sits within a covering hall, anchoring a rare line of four halls registered in 2024.

On Honmachi-dori, which climbs to Inuyama Castle, this late-Edo townhouse is unusually broad at 11.8 meters, its face black plaster behind lattice. Listed 2004.

A registered belfry at Unkoji temple in Seto, Aichi. A ridge tag dates it to 1810 and names its carpenter. Local Akazu tiles roof it; the bell was recast in 2009.

A tiny late Edo sutra storehouse at Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, 10 shaku square with a pyramidal roof and plastered walls. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.