Edo
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This late Edo four-legged gate at Ikoji in Masuda carries hexagonal relief along its tie-beam and stepped brackets under the eaves. It was registered in 2017.
The late-Edo main house of the Ishibashi Residence in Izumo, Shimane, covers 262 square metres, its frontage widened by pent roofs, with checkerboard namako tiling.
The ceremonial gate of the Itohara ironmaster house, a late-Edo timber gate roofed in tile with flanking walls, opened only for the lord of Matsue's formal visits.
The late-Edo rice storehouse of the Itohara house, oldest of the family's stores. Registered farmers who held samurai rank, they built wealth on rice as well as iron.
Okuno Motoke Residence Treasure House, Mori, Yasugi: an 1858 storehouse, the oldest on the estate, with two doorways, four rooms and a round plaster ridge-end.
A late-Edo earthen storehouse south of Kasen Brewery's shop in Tsuwano, renovated around 1996, matching the Tool Storehouse in design but longer. Registered in 2010.
The smallest of Kasen Brewery's five registered buildings in Tsuwano: a late-Edo earthen storehouse on fieldstone footings with namako walls and copper window doors.
A late-Edo single-storey brewing storehouse at Kasen Brewery in Tsuwano, 30 meters long, with an earthen floor in two rooms holding sake barrels. Registered 2010.
A late-Edo two-storey storehouse at the back of Kasen Brewery in Tsuwano, lining a lane with a hip-and-gable north end and a gabled south end. Registered in 2010.
The Zaima Brewery Store and Main House is a late Edo brewer's home on Tsuwano's old San'in-do, with shop to the left, living rooms to the right and a brick chimney.
The Zaima Brewery East Storehouse in Tsuwano is a late Edo two-storey sake store, 27.6 m long, with low upper windows for cooling steamed rice; registered 2012.
The Zaima Brewery Funekura and Hyakkokugura in Tsuwano joins a late Edo and a Taisho-era storehouse into one 423 m² white-walled building along the old San'in-do.
The plainest of Sasaya's four registered buildings in Tsuwano, and the one with the best door: kakeko-nuri plasterwork whose stepped edges leave fire no way in.
A tiny Edo storehouse built to be looked at: namako tile wall base, copper shutters, a crest on top. It makes the Honmachi streetscape with the shop it stocked.
Thick fireproof walls, one grilled window, and inside a six-mat tatami room with polished log rafters. A merchant family's tea-room sealed in a strongbox, Tsuwano.
Fourteen meters of frontage on Honmachi in Tsuwano. Plastered okabe walls bury the frame, udatsu parapets rise at each end, and the ground floor still sells kimono.
The storehouse at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano is the oldest of the seven, dating to the late Edo period. It sets red Sekishu tiles against white plaster.
The Shimada Family Residence Sake Brewery in Masuda, Shimane, is a late Edo earthen storehouse of 298 square metres, extended in Meiji and registered in 2017.
An Edo-period stone wall on the west and south of a headman's estate in Gotsu, Shimane, in local rhyolite, 125 m long and 2 to 3 m high, with the Kido-michi path.
An 1847 earthen storehouse in the corner of a headman's estate in Gotsu, Shimane, once the granary of Onuki village, where unhulled rice was kept against famine.