Edo
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The main hall of Manpukuji in Naka, Tokushima, a late Edo hall with a thatched hipped roof ringed by tiled eaves, has the regional farmhouse look called shihobuta.
A 1710 farmhouse above the upper Akui River in Kamiyama Town, dated by its ridgepole tablet and designated in 1976 as the oldest six-room house plan in the district.
Built in 1630 opposite the thirteenth Shikoku pilgrimage temple, this three-bay shrine hall layers a dormer gable over a cusped one and keeps its polychrome carving.
The Great Pagoda of Kirihataji in Awa, Tokushima, built in 1618 at Sumiyoshi Taisha in Osaka and moved here in early Meiji, is a two-storey pagoda unique in Japan.
The Kannon hall of Jorokuji in Tokushima City, a hall of 1648 with two tiers of hipped tiled roof, is one of the four designated buildings of the temple.
The sutra repository of Jorokuji in Tokushima City, a former monks' hall of 1644 with an octagonal revolving sutra case, joined the other three on the list in 1998.
The main hall of Jorokuji in Tokushima City, built in 1629 as the abbot's quarters, is a broad hall under a tiled hip-and-gable roof, one of the temple's four.
Tokushima's oldest farmhouse, built in the early Edo period above the Anabuki River in Mima. The family here still weaves hemp cloth for imperial enthronements.
Built in 1756, the vermilion Anrakuji Temple Main Gate in Mima, Tokushima pairs orthodox Zen bracketing above with an unconventional lower storey. Registered 2009.
At the sixth Shikoku pilgrimage temple in Kamiita, Tokushima, the late Edo Anrakuji Temple Hojo has a thatched roof edged in tile and a raised lord's room.
Oizumido in Tsurugi, Tokushima, a mid-Edo hall of a local pilgrimage of eighty-eight sites, stands open on three sides under a weighty pyramidal roof of full tiles.
Kaizedo in Tsurugi, Tokushima, a hall of 1816 on a local pilgrimage of eighty-eight sites, is open on two sides under a pyramidal roof and reflects local faith.
The Kamamura Family Residence Main House in Mima, Tokushima, is an 1839 farmhouse with lime-plastered walls, a low loft and layered tile roofs, registered in 2007.
The Kamamura Family Residence Courtyard Earthen Wall in Mima, Tokushima, is a 16-meter tiled earthen wall of the late Edo period whose database entry is mixed up.
The Kamamura Family Residence West Earthen Wall in Mima, Tokushima, is a late Edo tile-capped wall running 14 meters south from the storehouse along the west edge.
The Former Oiso Family House, an indigo merchant's house of the 1830s moved to Awanosato in Matsushige, Tokushima, has a distinctive frame of heavy posts and beams.
Relocated from an indigo merchant's house in 1954, the Tatsumi Zashiki at Tokushima's Awa Jurobei Yashiki is a 21-mat room of fine timbers, registered in 2024.
Built in 1855 and moved here in 1954, the Nagayamon at Tokushima's Awa Jurobei Yashiki carries a formal hongawara tile roof, and was registered in March 2024.
Built in 1810 at Kira in Tsurugi Town, Tokushima, this open-sided thatched hall is station thirty on the Habashikoku circuit, a miniature local Shikoku pilgrimage.
This late Edo thatched farmhouse at Tsurui in Higashi-Iya, Tokushima, was registered in 2019 as a model of the Iya house form. It is a private home and is not open.