Edo

A small late Edo storehouse with an okiyane roof, the oldest of seven registered buildings on the Minami estate in Hannan, Osaka. Registered 2005. Private.

A late Edo earthen storehouse behind the kitchen wing of the Minami estate in Hannan, Osaka, joined to it by a work space. Registered 2005. Private, not open.

A late Edo work shed in the kaito farm yard of the Minami estate in Hannan, Osaka, with a tiled gable roof and a wraparound lean-to. Registered 2005. Private.

Facing the Koya Kaido at the former Mikkaichi post town, this wide-fronted machiya belonged to the Yagi family, cotton wholesalers turned sake brewers.

This two-storey storehouse turns its gable to the old Koya Kaido: white lime plaster above, charred cedar below, a copper door at each window. Registered 2008.

The Yamada Family Residence Front Gate in Sennan, Osaka, is a late Edo gatehouse with barred windows, the outer of two gates aligned on one axis toward the house.

The Yamada Family Residence Entrance Wing, built around 1863 in Sennan, Osaka, was the formal door, with a shikidai step, a tea room and a projecting gable.

The Yamada Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Sennan, Osaka, built in 1854 for tax rice, has three rooms with separate doors and now opens as a folk museum.

The Yamada Family Residence Main House, rebuilt 1863 in Sennan, Osaka, keeps an early three-room plan, an earthen hall where tax rice was counted, and fine rooms.

The Yamada Family Residence Main House in Kaizuka Jinaicho, Osaka, is a late Edo townhouse with a sliding-up entrance door. Its exterior can be seen from the street.

The Yamada Family Residence Kitchen Wing in Sennan, Osaka, remodeled in 1921, keeps its earthen floor, well, stoves and sink under a ridge-top smoke vent.

The Yamada Family Residence Storehouse in Sennan, Osaka, built in 1794, is the estate's oldest building: a two-storey plastered store under a detached okiyane roof.

The Yamada Family Residence Earthen Wall in Sennan, Osaka, runs 82 meters in four stretches of tile-capped rammed earth, with stonework leveling the sloping lane.

The Yamano Family Residence Main House is a late Edo farmhouse moved from Neyagawa to Katano in the late Taisho era, keeping its doma, six-room plan and guest wing.

A late Edo thatched farmhouse of a village headman's family in Saidera, Suita, with a formal shikidai entrance, lean-to roofs all round and a slatted-ceiling parlor.

At the back of the Yokoyama estate in Takatsuki, this late Edo storehouse of 5 by 4.1 m has a round-tile roof, a south gable door, lime plaster and hooded windows.

Built in 1835 in Takatsuki's old castle town, this townhouse is the only surviving gōyado inn for villagers on official business, with dark lattices and white walls.

Beside the storehouse in Takatsuki, this late Edo earthen barn of 10 by 5 m has plaster up to its eaves, latticed upper windows and a pickling room off its lean-to.

In the satoyama hills of Nose, the northernmost town in Osaka, this thatched village hall enshrines the Medicine Buddha. Traced to 1555 and registered in 2004.

In Kaizuka's temple town south of Osaka, the Yoshimura family traded oil and money as 'Izumiya.' Their late-Edo clothing storehouse survives by the Kishu Kaido.