Edo
江戸Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Hozoji Temple Bell Tower Gate in Azumino is a two-story gate built around 1793, with a bronze bell under a coffered ceiling, likely by an Osumi-school builder.
Hozoji Temple Storehouse in Azumino is a clay-walled storehouse dated to 1854 by ink on its ridge beam, with a floating roof and a walled lean-to on its north side.
Completed in 1929 on the Tenryu River and registered in 2025, this concrete power house in Nakagawa Village ranges tall arched windows along its generator hall.
Muryoji Temple Priests' Quarters, Matsumoto: rebuilt with the main hall in 1810 to 1812, a long thatched building of 337 m2 linked to the hall by a porched corridor.
Muryoji Temple Shuryo, Matsumoto: a monks' dormitory with a hipped roof once thatched in wheat straw, a central passage and rooms on each side, built in late Edo.
Muryoji Temple Bell Tower, Matsumoto: a small belfry of 1815 by carpenter Miyashita Jiroshichi, with leaning octagonal posts, a railing and carved gable brackets.
Muryoji Temple Treasure Hall, Matsumoto: a two-storey fireproof storehouse of 1830 with namako tile skirting on all sides, a plaster eaves band and framed openings.
Muryoji Temple Main Hall in Matsumoto, rebuilt 1810 to 1812 after a fire: a hipped thatched hall with tall posts, deep outrigger eaves and carvings at its sanctuary.
The gate of Myotokuji near Matsushiro, Nagano City, a two-storey bell-tower gate of about 1713 with cusped windows, rises above the stone steps of the approach.
The main hall of Myotokuji near Matsushiro, Nagano City, a thatched Soto Zen hall of about 1713, raises a tall box ridge over the typical six-room plan.
The Yamada Ryokan Main Building at Otari Onsen: a late-Edo three-storey timber inn wing with stacked galleries, extended in 1884 and registered in 2001.
The Yamada Ryokan Yakushido, a small late-Edo hall at Otari Onsen enshrining the Buddha of healing, shows that spa guests needed a place to pray; registered in 2001.
Hon'ami Kōetsu's Raku bowl Fujisan, white above and dark below like snow-capped Mount Fuji, is a National Treasure rarely shown at Sunritz Hattori Museum, Lake Suwa.
The Yabe Family Residence in Yazu, Tottori, a large thatched hip-and-gable farmhouse of the early Edo period (1615 to 1660), is one of the oldest in the prefecture.
The main house of the Ishio merchants in Shikano, Tottori, from the late Edo period (1830 to 1868), fronts the old road with fine lattices and carved brackets.
The main house of the Iwata Family Residence in Tottori is a late-Edo townhouse 8 bays wide, with a deep lean-to, projecting lattice, slit windows and red tiles.
Gabled pantile front gate of the Endo estate in Bōryō, Daisen, dated to 1860 by a ridge tablet: four posts in a row, wicket doors, board walls and bracing posts.
A late Edo two-storey storehouse at the back of the Endo estate in Bōryō, Daisen: weatherboarded sides, a white plaster east front with namako-kabe tile panels.
Late Edo main house of the Endo family, retainers of Daisen-ji, in Bōryō, Daisen: a 264 m² thatched hipped roof, staggered four-room plan and formal entrance.
An 1860 annex beside the Endo estate's front gate in Bōryō, Daisen, probably a retirement room: latticed windows to the road, two 6-mat rooms off a central passage.