Edo
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This registered merchant house in Kaizuka belonged to an oil and money-exchange family, set apart by guest rooms added on its south side in the late Edo period.
This late-Edo earthen storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka was registered in 2003. Built for a money-changing family, it raises its floor on stone over a buried vault.
The Risai family's main house in Kaizuka's self-governing temple town: a Registered Cultural Property with a stepped gable roof and a possible 17th-century core.
In Kaizuka's old temple town, the Risai family ran an apothecary. Their late-Edo storehouse runs ten bays deep, the south half once stocked with medicinal herbs.
Built in 1807 on a forested hilltop in Shimamoto, Osaka, Wakayama Shrine's main hall carries a forward-curving gable rare in the region, registered in 2018.
The Yamada Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Sennan, Osaka, is a late Edo gatehouse about 30 meters long whose tiled roof closes off the estate's forecourt.
In front of the main house of a Matsubara headman's estate, this late Edo storehouse splits one roof between an earth-floored charcoal store and a cotton store.
A late Edo gatehouse on the street front of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, with a stepped roof over the gateway and storehouses at each end. Seen from the road.
A late Edo farmhouse in Suita, Osaka, with a hip-and-gable roof, tsushi half-storey and 20 m front, registered in 2004 for its plan and latticed front room. Private.
A late-Edo gatehouse in Toyonaka, Osaka: a gateway with double doors and a wicket to the south, a watch room with a lookout lattice to the north. Registered 2008.
A late-Edo storehouse in Toyonaka, Osaka, moved to the rear of the homestead in late Meiji, its earthen walls left without white plaster. Registered in 2008.
The late-Edo Jozenji Temple Sutra Repository in Izumisano is a lime-plastered fireproof store under a pyramidal tile roof, facing the main hall. Registered in 2008.
Built in 1683, the seven-bay Jozenji Temple Main Hall in Izumisano adds side rooms to a standard Jodo-shu plan. Registered in 2008; interior visits by reservation.
The Jozenji Temple Priests' Quarters in Izumisano, a 14 by 16 metre late-Edo residence, keeps its smoke vent, exposed gable frame and guest porch. Registered 2008.
Built in 1797, the open Jozenji Temple Bell Tower in Izumisano has inward-leaning posts and carved baku and lions. Registered in 2008; rung on New Year's Eve.
The mid-Edo Jozenji Temple Back Gate in Izumisano is a weighty yakuimon with flanking walls, facing the old Kyoshigoe Kaido coast road. Registered in 2008.
An Edo-period katana at Sumiyoshi Taisha, Osaka, an Important Cultural Property since 1960, signed by Hankei, a Tokugawa gunsmith who became a swordsmith.
The National Treasure celadon vase 'Bansei', fired at Southern Song China's Longquan kilns, passed from an empress to a Kyoto temple before reaching Izumi, Osaka.
Osaka's Kyou Shooku library holds eleven Song-printed volumes of the Shiji jijie, the oldest Shiji commentary, a National Treasure once owned by Naito Konan.
Printed in Southern Song China in 1139, these 17 National Treasure volumes of the Maoshi zhengyi rest at Kyo-U Library in Osaka with Kanazawa Bunko seals.