Edo
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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.
A late Edo earthen storehouse in Gotsu, Shimane, 9.9 m long, its ground floor split for rice and straw, with a lean-to on the west where rice was polished.
A late Edo two-story earthen storehouse opposite the rear door of a headman's house in Gotsu, Shimane, with boarded floors, rough walls and bamboo roof sheathing.
A late Edo one-bay gate on Honmachi-dori in Gotsu, Shimane, 1.7 meters wide, with double rafters, a cloud-bracket beam and carved gable pendants; registered in 2009.
An 1853 house on Honmachi-dori in Gotsu, Shimane, with a red Sekishu-tile gable roof crossed by a smoke vent and a six-room plan; it was registered in 2009.
A late Edo wall in Gotsu, Shimane, running 26 meters to divide three forecourts of the Fujita main house, its eaves and finish changing as it goes; registered 2009.
A late Edo timber house in Gotsu, Shimane, plastered right up to the eaves, with a smoke vent and a kagi-zashiki four-room plan typical of the Iwami region.
An 11-metre-wide merchant townhouse on Tsuwano's old highway, rebuilt after the great fire of 1853, registered in 2010. Its shopfront glass bears the family crest.
A two-storey earthen storehouse behind the Bundoya shop in Tsuwano, built after the 1853 fire. Clay walls, a cut-stone base, a family crest raised in gable plaster.
Hozumi Residence Shita-no-kura, Onan, Shimane: a late Edo storehouse east of the main house, its posts leaning inward and a curved timber carrying the ridge beam.
Hozumi Residence Main House, Onan, Shimane: a late Edo headman's house, six rooms in a grid west of the earth floor, re-roofed in Sekishu tile over four-tier beams.
Hozumi Residence Sedo-no-kura, Onan, Shimane: a late Edo storehouse behind the main house, its raised roof set over plaster carried right up to the eaves.
The Okage Well of 1861 before Miho Shrine in Mihonoseki, Matsue, a stone shaft ringed by an octagon of slabs, served residents, seafarers and pilgrims alike.
A late Edo stone retaining wall fronting the Yamashita estate in Gotsu, Shimane, 45 meters long and up to 3.8 meters high, of random split stone with bonded corners.