Edo

A late-Edo belfry at Usa in Oita, three bays by two, with a flared skirt and two-tiered brackets. Paired with the plastered drum tower opposite. Registered 2016.

Built in 1847 at Usa in Oita, this plaster-sealed drum tower rises on a stone podium, its posts and ties modelled in relief under the render. Registered in 2016.

A tall late-Edo koraimon at Usa in Oita, 4.2 metres wide, marking where the street ends. From beneath it the Main Gate and main hall line up. Registered in 2016.

Built in 1859 at Usa in Oita, this 30-metre hall is held to be the largest timber building in Kyushu and the only one of 11 registered structures listed for design.

The sutra repository of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, a plastered hall of the early 18th century, holds an octagonal revolving sutra case at its centre.

The main gate of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, a mid-Edo four-legged gate 3.5 metres wide, keeps an older style with a large gable strut and carved waves.

The bell tower of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, dated to 1761 by an ink inscription, has splayed posts, a raised coffered ceiling and a broad peony carving.

The middle gate of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, a late Edo four-legged gate 4.5 metres wide, bears carved baku, lions, qilin and chrysanthemum struts.

A late Edo well behind a Hita merchant house: an andesite curb cut with half-lap joints, ringed by a stone washing floor and roofed by a small gabled shelter.

Built in 1816 in Hita's merchant quarter, this 22-metre townhouse carries plaster walls, tiled namako banding and a low eave of heavy pantiles above the street.

The main hall of Kiyomizudera in Nagasaki, built in 1668 with funds from the Chinese merchant He Gaocai, has an open aisle and Obaku-style details unusual in Japan.

The Saiwai Bridge at Hirado Port, Nagasaki, a stone arch of 1702 built by local masons for the lord of Hirado, carries the skills of the town's trading-port days.

A gabled, tile-roofed late-Edo farmhouse in Tsutsu on southern Tsushima, designated an Important Cultural Property in 1969 for its regional plan and frame.

An Important Cultural Property of 1731 at Nagasaki's Sōfukuji, where Kannon, the deified general Guan Yu, and the guardian Idaten share one Ōbaku-style hall.

Sōfukuji's vermilion outer gate in Nagasaki, rebuilt in 1849 by Japanese carpenters. The Dragon Palace Gate is the temple's most Chinese-looking building.

Built in 1728 at Nagasaki's Sofukuji temple, this two-story tower holds both a bell and a drum. Its frame is Chinese carpentry; its roof follows Japanese design.

Built in 1666, the Maso Gate of Sōfukuji temple in Nagasaki leads to the hall of Maso, the Chinese sea goddess once enshrined there by visiting trading ships.

A mid-Edo thatched farmhouse in Nagasaki City, an Important Cultural Property since 1969, with a three-room plan and thought to be the oldest in the prefecture.

The Inohara Hardware Store Main Building in Shimabara joins an 1861 townhouse to a late-Meiji wing. Registered in 2003, it trades on, spring water at the door.

This late Edo shop and house fronts the old road at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, with a hip-and-gable front, a gabled rear wing and beams over the doma.