Edo
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Beside the Honkura at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, this late Edo brewhouse survived the 1879 fire and its roof carries on over the lane between them.
Probably the oldest building at Imazato Sake Brewery in Hasami, Nagasaki, this late Edo brewhouse opens off the shop floor and carries its roof on doubled tie beams.
The Uchino Family Residence Stone Steps in Hirado are a straight late-Edo flight of ten steps, 3.6 m wide, built of long sandstone slabs edged with natural stones.
Along a Hirado street, the Uchino Family Residence Gate and Wall pairs a 43 m plastered wall on late-Edo stonework with concrete gateposts remade around 1926.
Umegae Sake Brewery Former Brewing Storehouse in Sasebo is a late Edo earthen shed of 264 square meters, extended twice and braced inside, where sake mash fermented.
Umegae Sake Brewery Former Muro in Sasebo hides a brick chamber inside a late Edo timber building; its roof merges with the brewing storehouse next door.
Umegae Sake Brewery Residence is a late Edo annex in Sasebo: three tatami rooms, a tokonoma, and a veranda and earthen eave opening to a garden. It is registered.
Umegae Sake Brewery Main House, built in 1860 in Sasebo, was the brewer's home and office. Its earthen-floored front is now a tasting room open without booking.
Umegae Sake Brewery Bottling Plant in Sasebo joins a one-story and a two-story earthen wing in an L; its late Edo ground floor is still used for shipping sake.
Umegayatsu Inari Shrine (1833) in Hirado pairs a small stone sanctuary with a stone torii, both dated, and serves as station four of the Hirado Island pilgrimage.
Umegayatsu Kairakuen Stone Wall (1839) in Hirado runs 97 meters below the villa, shifting from dry-laid stone to boulders and 5-meter rubble as it frames the garden.
Umegayatsu Kairakuen Stone Fence and Stone Steps (1839) led guests down from the hill to the house, the 11-meter steps curving at the foot beside a two-method fence.
Umegayatsu Kairakuen Main House, an 1839 villa of Hirado lord Matsura Hiromu, steps down its hillside to open onto the sea, with a tea room tucked on the hill side.
A late-Edo wall of grey, pink and blue Shimabara stone laid in a tortoiseshell pattern, 98.7 meters long around a samurai estate. Registered 2012; seen from outside.
A plain late-Edo yakuimon gate, 2.6 meters wide, whose heavy posts and tie beams frame the entry to a Shimabara samurai estate. Registered 2012; seen from the road.
Senkinko, an earthen storehouse at the Matsura Historical Museum in Hirado, Nagasaki, was registered in 2014. Its raised floor fits a castle-origin tradition.
The gate and stone wall of the Tsutsumiuchi Residence in Shimabara, Nagasaki, pair late Edo andesite masonry with Taisho gate posts. Visible from the street.
The Komatsu Family Residence in Kataoka, Shiojiri, Nagano, a thatched farmhouse of the early 18th century, is counted among the oldest houses in eastern Japan.
The 1766 house of wholesalers who also kept a hatago lodging house at Mochizuki-juku on the Nakasendo in Saku, Nagano, an Important Cultural Property since 1973.
Built in the Kyoho era (1716-1735), the Shimazaki Family Residence in Shiojiri, Nagano is the oldest known fully formed honmune-zukuri farmhouse in Japan.