Edo
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The late-Edo main gate of the Sakabe estate in Fuchu, Wakayama City: a 19 m nagayamon with a cattle room and a horse room whose rare stall rail survives inside.
The kuri of Jōgan-ji, west of the main hall in Kinokawa, Wakayama. A late-Edo priest's residence with a karahafu porch and a raised upper room. Registered in 2024.
The temple gate of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. A late-Edo yakuimon with carved beams and brackets, marking the precinct edge on the street. Registered in 2024.
The bell tower of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. A late-Edo tower built wholly of zelkova on a cut-stone base, with carved gable ornaments. Registered 2024.
The ablution pavilion of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. Just 5.2 square metres, it has a formal hipped-and-gabled tiled roof and coffered ceiling. Registered 2024.
The main hall of Jōgan-ji, a True Pure Land temple in Kinokawa, Wakayama. Built in 1784, the tiled timber hall anchors the village skyline; registered in 2024.
Jokiin Hondo on Koyasan is a late Edo main hall built as a plastered fireproof storehouse, with an attached goma ritual wing to the north. Registered 2025.
Shonenji Temple Gate stands on the west side of a temple precinct in Kada, Wakayama City. This small late-Edo four-legged gate is framed entirely in zelkova.
Shonenji Main Hall in Kada, Wakayama City, is a seven-bay Pure Land hall built in 1795 in the castle town of Wakayama and moved here in 1907. Registered in 2017.
Registered in 2006, this late Edo priests' residence in Hashimoto keeps an archaic oshiita alcove, a hint that Koyasan monks used it as a lowland winter retreat.
Suhara Kakubei Yashiki Shuoku in Yuasa, Wakayama, ridge-tablet dated to 1797 and registered in 2004, housed merchants whose fishing grounds reached Sakhalin.
The Suhara Kakubei storehouse in Yuasa, Wakayama, is a late-Edo two-storey dozo of 40 square metres, white-plastered with an iron skirt, registered in 2004.
This 42-metre earthen wall edges the Suhara Kakubei Residence in Yuasa, Wakayama, marking where a vanished front gate stood in a late-Edo merchant compound.
The oldest building of a Gobo, Wakayama estate: an 1842 earthen-walled rice store that held tenant rice for a family of regional headmen, moved intact in the 1920s.
A thatched farmhouse of about 1850 in the Wakayama hills, with a staggered four-room plan and a large shrine-family altar. Registered 2013; view from outside.
A single-storey late Edo townhouse facing Shinmachi-dori in Gobo, with a projecting lattice west of the door and Western clapboard to the east. Registered in 2024.
A long late Edo wall enclosing the east side of the Sono estate in Gobo: an L-shaped range with a pickling room and open work area inside. Registered in 2024.
A two-storey late Edo storehouse on the north side of the Sono estate in Gobo, used for serving trays and paired with the east storehouse. Registered in 2024.
A small two-storey late Edo storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo, Wakayama, built for hina dolls, with lime-plastered walls and a boarded base. Registered in 2024.
The largest storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo: a late Edo two-storey store for household goods, plastered to the eaves, with a tiled lean-to. Registered 2024.