Edo
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Set against the east wall of the main house at Imai in Okaya, this late Edo well drops about 6 metres through stacked stone under a later timber canopy.
Facing the old Nakasendo at Imai in Okaya, this late Edo gate is a yakuimon 5.1 metres wide, with plank doors, a side wicket and a gently curved gabled roof.
Built in 1789 north-west of the main house at Imai in Okaya, this two-storey storehouse of 33 square metres has earthen doors and a raised roof of split stone.
Built in 1772 beside the old Nakasendo at Imai in Okaya, this single-storey house of 450 square metres sets a formal entrance bay before the gable-entered main body.
Built in 1861 beside the main house at Imai in Okaya, this two-storey storehouse of 33 square metres has thick earthen doors and a raised roof of split stone.
The Iwadare main house in Shiojiri, Nagano, a honmune farmhouse of 1836 with a crest ornament on its gable front, is valued as a dated example of the style.
The gate of Emyoji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1677, is a small tiled timber gate 2.1 metres wide and the oldest of the temple's three registered structures.
The bell tower of Emyoji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1833, is a two-storey tower with leaning posts and a ground floor dressed to look like a flared skirt.
The main hall of Emyoji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1833, is a pent-roofed Buddha hall in the Obaku Zen manner with panelled doors and cusped windows.
A mid-18th-century thatched farmhouse in Okaya, Nagano, with an earth-floored work area in front and living rooms behind, home of silk pioneer Katakura Kanetaro.
A late Edo merchant house on the old Ina Highway in Miyada, Nagano, where a single unbroken roof covers both the dwelling and its soy sauce brewing storehouse.
The oldest of the four Ozawa buildings, this late-Edo storehouse in Matsumoto's Hofukuji town turns its gable to the old road, its base clad in namako-kabe tiling.
The former Kitazawa house in Yasaka, Omachi, Nagano, a broad thatched headman's home of about 1849 with a massive beamed earth floor, anchors its hill village.
The main house of Kumeya, the late Edo wakihonjin of Komoro on the Hokkoku Kaido, keeps a gabled shikidai entrance and an earthen hall now open as a tea room.
The detached reception wing of Kumeya, the late Edo wakihonjin of Komoro, has four rooms and a formal main room with a carved transom of the Seven Sages.
A 354-square-meter late-Edo farmhouse in Ikusaka, Nagano, whose loft workroom, lifted east gable and long ridge ventilator recall tobacco growing. Registered 2019.
Built in 1856, the largest storehouse on the Ichiboshi-tei estate in Ikusaka, Nagano, plastered to the eaves, with two quince-edged sliding doors. Registered 2019.
Built in 1840, the oldest storehouse on the Ichiboshi-tei estate in Ikusaka, Nagano, with a namako-tile skirting and quince-edged fire doors. Registered in 2019.
An 1859 storehouse on the Ichiboshi-tei estate in Ikusaka, Nagano, the last of three, with a black-plaster quince motif and a torii door frame. Registered 2019.
A late Edo gate on the Ichiboshi-tei estate in Ikusaka, Nagano, with a bracket-supported tiled roof, zelkova doors and lattice windows in quince-shaped frames.