Edo
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A late Edo farmhouse on high ground above Minami-Otari Station in Otari, Nagano, with a hipped thatched roof under metal, a ridge vent and an indoor stable.
A late Edo honmune-zukuri farmhouse in Azumino, Nagano: 243 square meters under a gabled pantile roof, six rooms around a 9-tsubo oe, and many sashigamoi lintels.
Discover the Nonaka Family Residence Main House in Matsushiro, Nagano — a late-Edo period samurai dwelling once occupied by a district magistrate, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2006.
Located in Matsushiro, Nagano City, the Main Hall of Baiou-in is the central building of a Sōtō Zen temple founded in 1672 by the Sanada family to honour Lady Ukyō, a concubine of Sanada Nobuyuki, the first lord of the Matsushiro Domain. After damage in the great Zenkōji Earthquake of 1847, the single-storey wooden hipped-roof hall with a six-room hōjō plan was rebuilt in 1861. It faithfully expresses the character of late-Edo regional Sōtō Zen architecture and was registered, together with its temple gate, as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2014. The temple is also known for an unusual statue of Gyoran Kannon riding a carp and a monument to the children's song 'Mite Gozaru.'
The Hatakoshi Family Residence Main House in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a honmune-zukuri farmhouse of about 1748, fronted by a symmetrical west gable and ridge ornament.
The Hatta Family Residence Large Storehouse in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a late Edo two-storey storehouse in iron plate, oldest of the six registered structures.
Built in 1816 above Matsushiro in Nagano, this shrine links three halls under one tiled roof, its veranda carried on posts rising from the slope. Registered 2024.
On a hilltop above Matsushiro in Nagano, a sanctuary of just 3.4 square metres carries bracketing and a vase-strut gable sized for far larger halls. Registered 2024.
A late Edo gatehouse on the historic route through Matsushiro, Nagano City. Seven and a half ken wide, thatched under metal sheeting, registered 2005. No entry.
A late-Edo yakuimon gate in Matsushiro, Nagano. It is 3.6 metres wide, with asymmetric wing walls, a wicket door and lime plaster, and was registered in 2010.
A two-storey Edo-period building in Matsushiro, Nagano, where samurai household servants lodged. Three different street-side lattice windows; registered 2010.
A late-Edo earthen wall in Matsushiro, Nagano: 12 metres long and 1.8 high, plastered smooth toward the street and left open-framed within. Registered 2010.
A late Edo honmune-zukuri farmhouse on the Zenkoji Kaido in Shiojiri, home of a village headman, with a sparrow-dance gable; Emperor Meiji rested here in 1880.
A late Edo storehouse range behind Omachi's salt merchant house: a document store with pickle and salt stores added in 1869, the salt store keeping its brine trap.
A late Edo two-storey storehouse in Obuse, Nagano, with white plaster walls, a detached tiled roof and the family crest modelled in plaster on its west wall.
A late Edo single-storey shed in Obuse, Nagano, once a water mill, with a tiled gable roof swept down into a lean-to. It ends a roadside row of 3 buildings.
A late Edo farmhouse in Obuse, Nagano, 23.4 m long, with a thatched hipped roof and a tiled east wing. Its four-room plan grew a guest suite. Registered in 2011.
A late Edo two-storey storehouse on the road frontage in Obuse, Nagano, left at its clay coat, whose north doorway has a fire door, a timber door and a lattice door.
Hozoji Temple Priests' Quarters in Azumino is a mid-Edo kuri moved from the closed Anrakuji temple in the Meiji era, with a cusped gable porch and white walls.
Hozoji Temple Shoin in Azumino is a small mid-Edo reception hall with two 10-mat rooms, an alcove, shelves and a writing bay, carefully built of fine timber.