Edo

The inner sanctum of Joshoin, a sub-temple of Zojoji in Shiba, Tokyo, is a fireproof prayer hall of 1769 that survived the war, with a black-lacquered ceiling.

At the foot of Tokyo Tower stands the 1743 vermilion front gate of Shinkō-in, a branch of the Tokugawa temple Zōjō-ji, registered as a Cultural Property in 2001.

A late-Edo townhouse in Yanaka, Tokyo, the two-storey Oguraya pawnshop keeps its wide plank door and eight-mat counter room. Registered as heritage in 2000.

The oldest building of a Nishitokyo farmstead, a late Edo stable raised to two stories before the war, keeping its original frame and open lean-to; registered 2018.

The c.1822 brewing hall of Tamura Sake Brewery in Fussa, Tokyo: three linked earthen kura, extended in 1918 and 1922, with an octagonal brick chimney in iron bands.

Tamura Sake Brewery Zogura in Fussa, Tokyo: an 1862 two-storey earthen store with a floating tiled roof and two doorways, its ridge set crosswise to its neighbor.

Tamura Sake Brewery's 1830 rice store in Fussa, Tokyo: a small two-storey earthen kura with a floating tiled roof, notched boarding and double earthen doors.

A late Edo grain storehouse in Higashikurume with a detached roof, four courses of Oya stone at its base, white plaster walls and stepped plaster doors facing east.

An 1838 thatched farmhouse in Higashikurume: 23 m long under a hip-and-gable roof, with a stable at one end and a six-room plan and reception room at the other.

A late Edo storehouse in Higashikurume, 5.4 m long, with white plaster walls, a family crest on the east gable and an interior of close-set posts and iron bars.

Morita Family Residence Okankindo is a late-Edo family Buddhist chapel in Akiruno, Tokyo: a tiny earthen hall under a pyramidal copper roof with a jewel finial.

Morita Family Residence Former Rice Storehouse, a large late-Edo earthen store in Akiruno, Tokyo, known as Hachiken, became the kaiseki restaurant Tōtōan in 1996.

Morita Family Residence Main House in Akiruno, Tokyo, is a late-Edo farmhouse with a zelkova karahafu porch and six-room plan, registered in 2013; interior closed.

Morita Family Residence West Storehouse, a late-Edo earthen store in Akiruno, Tokyo, keeps layered fire doors and full shelving with original ink inscriptions.

Morita Family Residence Front Storehouse, built around 1852 and moved in 1983, holds the corner of the homestead in Akiruno, Tokyo, with fire-shuttered windows.

Morita Family Residence Shop Storehouse, an 1852 earthen misegura in Akiruno, Tokyo, keeps its top-hung shop shutters and now runs as a Japanese sweets café.

Morita Family Residence Miso Storehouse is a small late-Edo earthen store in Akiruno, Tokyo, with a framed plaster doorway and deep eaves, still used for food.

Morita Family Residence Gate is a late-Edo yakuimon in Akiruno, Tokyo, framed in zelkova with a copper gable roof, side walls and a wicket door, seen from the road.

Built in 1788 and extended in 1800, the Jizo Hall at Yutenji in Tokyo has an outer ceiling painted with Edo fire brigade standards. How to read its roofs and plaque.

A late-Edo yakuimon before Yutenji's Jizo Hall in Tokyo, its ceiling carved with seven matoi standards of Edo's fire brigades and its gable held up by a small demon.