Edo

A silk portrait of the ink master Sesshu by Unkoku Toeki, who claimed to be his fourth-generation heir, bearing a verse by a Daitoku-ji abbot. Designated in 2023.

This 16-meter handscroll at Hōfu's Mōri Museum is Unkoku Tōeki's copy of Sesshū's National Treasure landscape, designated an Important Cultural Property in 2023.

The Takasu Family Documents are a collection of 127 historical documents spanning from 1351 to 1643, along with a rare Ming dynasty trade ship flag. Designated as an Important Cultural Property, this archive reveals the activities of the Takasu clan as deputy governors of Akama-ga-seki (Shimonoseki) under the Mōri, managing international trade between Japan and Ming China.

The house of the Kikuya merchants of Hagi, Yamaguchi, whose five buildings became an Important Cultural Property in 1974, among the oldest large townhouses in Japan.

The golden hall of the Suo provincial temple in Hofu, Yamaguchi, built in 1779 by the Mori lord, is a rare surviving great hall on its original Nara-period stones.

Daishoin in Hagi, Yamaguchi, Zen family temple of the Mori lords of Hagi, keeps five buildings rebuilt in 1750 and 1755, among them a large main hall and a gate.

The Worship Hall of Furukuma Shrine in Yamaguchi City, designated in 1949, fuses a two-storey gate with a worship room, its wings linking it to the Main Hall.

Designated in 1917, the Main Hall of Furukuma Shrine in Yamaguchi City carries carved struts of pine, bamboo and plum, held to be the oldest surviving in Japan.

The Kuniyasu house in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, the pre-1850 shop of a hair-oil maker on the old merchant street, is now the Honke Matsugane tourist centre near Kintaikyo.

The main gate of Kozanji in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, is a Zen-style four-legged gate whose frame keeps its mid-Muromachi form, though the eaves have been rebuilt.

The Nakano Family Residence Stone Wall in Shimonoseki is late Edo stonework 58 metres long and about 3 metres high, lining the east edge and entrance lane.

The Nakano Family Residence Grain Storehouse in Nagato is a late Edo two-storey storehouse, the oldest in the compound, said to have survived an Edo-period fire.

The Nakano Family Residence Main House in Shimonoseki is a late Edo thatched farmhouse with a six-room plan, a hipped roof ringed by tiled eaves and an altar room.

The Nakano Family Residence Barn in Shimonoseki is a mid-Edo outbuilding nine bays long, with a central cattle stall and deep eaves on scroll-carved brackets.