Edo
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The main hall of Izumo Taisha in Shimane was built in 1744 in the taisha-zukuri form and is the largest surviving example. It became a National Treasure in 1952.
Kandenan and Kogetsutei in Matsue, Shimane, are tea rooms built around 1792 to daimyo Matsudaira Fumai's own drawing. A 42cm board keeps the one-mat room open.
The halls of Takuhi Shrine on Nishinoshima in the Oki Islands, built 1673 to 1902 and set into the mountain rock, honour a guardian of sailors on the Sea of Japan.
A late Edo farmhouse in Yoshika, Shimane, 7.6 by 6.0 metres with a thatched hip-and-gable roof, showing the form of a small ordinary farmhouse. Designated in 1969.
An 18th-century farmhouse in Unnan, Shimane, and an Important Cultural Property. Its great hall is held open without posts by raised nobori-bari beams.
The main hall of Mizuwakasu Shrine on Oki, Shimane, built in 1795, is a large thatched hall of the local Oki type, plain and strong, with full building records.
The main hall of Miho Shrine at Mihonoseki, Matsue, built in 1813, joins two taisha-style halls for Ebisu and Mihotsuhime, the largest and oldest of its kind.
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.