Edo
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The Former Yamada Family Residence Pawn Storehouse and Archive Storehouse in Nakano, Nagano: twin 1848 stores under one roof, rebuilt after the 1847 earthquake.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Corner Storehouse, a late Edo grain store at the northwest corner of the estate in Nakano, Nagano, keeps timbers scorched in 1870.
A 23-metre nagayamon in Matsushiro, Nagano City, with a 2.1-metre doorway, barred yoriki-mado and projecting lattice windows. Registered nationally in 2014.
The main hall of Gyozenji at Furuma on the Hokkoku road in Nagano, a Shin Buddhist hall of 1830, keeps the usual Shin plan under a broad hip-and-gable roof.
The Kojindo in Matsushiro, Nagano City, is a late Edo hall under a tiled hip-and-gable roof, with a porch, bracket sets and a railed veranda facing the street.
The Korinji Temple Sutra Repository in Nagano City is a white-plastered storehouse of 1865, registered in 2019, holding an octagonal revolving bookcase from 1880.
The Korinji Temple Main Gate in Nagano City is a one-bay yakuimon rebuilt in 1826 and registered in 2019, with four intertwined dragons carved above its crossbeam.
The Korinji Temple Bell Tower in Nagano City is an open Zen-style belfry of 1830 on a stone wall, registered in 2019 and carved with dragons, pines and hawks.
The Korinji Temple Main Hall in Nagano City dates from 1800 and was registered in 2025. A thatch-shaped copper roof, square and round posts, and a carved phoenix.
An 1855 earthen storehouse at the southwest corner of the Kosaka homestead in Nagano City, with a placed tile roof and white lime trim. Registered in 2019.
A late-Edo thatched farmhouse in Nagano City with a raised koshi-yane vent, an earthen doma and two reception rooms. 226 m²; registered 2019. Private; exterior only.
Built about 1800 as a rice store for Nagano's Sakai Meijō brewery, this earthen storehouse later gave up poet Kaya Shirao's papers and now holds his memorial hall.
This late-Edo earthen storehouse at the Sakai Meijō brewery in Nagano held the malt room and steaming hearth for sake brewing. Registered in 2003, it is open to visitors.
In the old post town of Shimo-Togura, Nagano, the thatched Sakai Meijo house was rebuilt after the 1760 fire. It now holds a soba restaurant and a free sake museum.
A late-Edo document storehouse at the Sakai Meijo sake brewery near Togura, its eaves and rafters carefully plastered. The brewery is open as a museum.
The Sakai Meijo Horeki-gura in Chikuma, Nagano, is the oldest brewing storehouse of an old sake house on the Hokkoku Kaido, a late-Edo building registered in 2003.
A late Edo farmhouse at the heart of a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, joining a thatched home to a tiled two-story block with two ventilation roofs.
A late Edo storage building on a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with two rearing rooms upstairs, a ventilation roof on the ridge and a cantilevered west wall.
The front gate of a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano: a late Edo gate moved here in mid-Meiji, 2.6 meters wide, with plank doors, flanking walls and a wicket.
A tiny late Edo Inari shrine on a stone wall at the corner of a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with proper bracket sets and a gently swelling gabled roof.