Edo

Kongoji Temple Gate in Kawajima, Saitama: an 1852 four-legged gate, only 3.0 m wide, finished with bracket sets, a carved dragon over the lintel and lion-nose ends.

Kongoji Temple Dainichi Hall in Kawajima, Saitama: a tiny mid-Edo hall with a pyramidal copper roof, old-style carvings outside and old paintings within.

A late-Edo thatched farmhouse in Ina Town, registered in 2019. Adze marks and hand-forged nails date it; six rooms and a formal alcove room. Not open to visitors.

Suisokuken in the woods of Heirinji in Niiza, Saitama, is a late Edo farmhouse moved from Hida in 1938, with the stout frame and adze-cut beams of its homeland.

A late-Edo two-story farmhouse in Gyoda, Saitama, 11 ken long, with a silkworm room upstairs, a raised ventilating ridge and gable windows. Café open Fri to Sun.

A plain late-Edo storehouse in Gyoda, Saitama: a white-plastered dozo block with a tiled lean-to over its front and an attached timber store, the oldest date there.

The 1859 gatehouse of the Takazawa estate in Gyoda, Saitama, dated by its ridge tag, with studded double board doors, a wicket door and rebuilt side rooms.

The main house of the Tokorozawa Local Art Museum in Saitama, built in 1854 for a family of doctors, has a formal shikidai entrance and now serves as a gallery.

The gatehouse of the Tokorozawa Local Art Museum in Saitama, built in 1855 by the carpenter of the main house, has matching rooms either side of its passage.

A late-Edo merchant storefront in Chichibu, registered in 2004. Low eaves, fine lattice, and a courtyard well of nationally listed spring water, free to take.

A late Edo gatehouse moved here in the Meiji era and registered in 2006. Zelkova timber and studded doors support the tradition that it came from Iwatsuki Castle.