Edo

The largest building at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, a long dozo storehouse with a monitor roof and three gabled dormers, tied to the founding of the house in 1868.

The late-Edo reception room of the earlier Takeshige house in Motai, kept at the rebuilding and joined to the present Main House. Listed as a model of its form.

A timber charcoal shed across the road at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, said to reuse part of the old main house moved here in 1909, holding the Nakasendo streetline.

A late-Edo single-storey earthen storehouse eleven bays long, raised on a terrace beside the old Nakasendo in Motai, whose white wall shapes the post town's street.

A late-Edo two-storey rice cellar with a set-on roof, standing on the stone embankment where the Nakasendo water channel turns the corner of a Nagano brewery estate.

A late-Edo building twelve bays long beside the Nakasendo water channel in Motai, with a two-storey plastered core, a gate in its western bays and a latticed front.

The late-Edo gate building between the east storehouse and the shop on the old Nakasendo in Motai, its cedar ball and latticed white front the best-known view here.

A stone torii of 1827 before a Nagano brewer's household shrine, 2.3 metres tall, of the Inari type with collar rings, a flat top rail and unusual two-tiered bases.

On the south edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this later Edo kura held the rice-steaming kettles of the brewery, its ridge topped by a smoke vent.

Built after a 1790 fire, this 31 m brewing storehouse on the south edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, is the largest and oldest of its registered kura.

Called "new" but dated to the late Edo period, this two-storey kura on the north edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, has a roof lined with heavy boards.

At the northwest corner of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this small late Edo kura with a hipped roof turns the corner between two long rows of storehouses.

In the northwest of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo three-storey kura for documents has a hip-and-gable west end and clay shutters on its windows.

At the southwest corner of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo kura stored grain in two rooms and anchors the storehouse rows running north and east.

On the street front of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo single-storey kura links the Front Gate to the Rice Storehouse in an unbroken white wall.

Tamayorihime Shrine Worship Hall in Matsushiro, Nagano, dated 1854, climbs in three floor levels toward the main hall under two crossing hip-and-gable roofs.

Tamayorihime Shrine Main Hall in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a late Edo three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary with plain funahijiki blocks and curved beams. Registered 2014.

The Munakatasha Worship Hall and Main Hall Shelter at Tamayorihime Shrine, Nagano, is a mid-Edo thatched hall whose front room faces a small shrine behind a lattice.

Tamayorihime Shrine Munakatasha Main Hall, a 1693 one-bay shrine in Matsushiro, Nagano, is only 0.5 square meters yet has full brackets, veranda and carvings.

Built in 1767 in the castle town of Matsushiro, Chōmyō-ji Hondō is a Pure Land Buddhist main hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2014, alongside the temple's sutra repository and main gate. Its richly carved transoms, refined bracket complexes, and elegant frog-leg struts make it a representative late-Edo Jōdo-shū main hall of northern Shinano.