Meiji
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The Sendagi house rented in turn by Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki, now at Meiji Mura: a middle Meiji home where I Am a Cat was written, with visitor details.
A 1907 bank in Aizu-Wakamatsu built as a fireproof earthen storehouse, its black-plastered shell enclosing a full-height hall with fluted columns and a gallery.
One of six wrought-iron spans from Japan's first double-track railway bridge, built 1877 and rebuilt at Museum Meiji-Mura with its Liverpool maker's plates intact.
A reception wing of about 1902 in Ichinomiya, Aichi. Three rooms run inward: a tea room, an antechamber, then a dais room said to follow the Omotesenke Zangetsutei.
A timber gate of 1908 in Kanie, Aichi. Brackets carry a tiled gabled roof over a 3.8 meter opening, with plastered wing walls. Listed 2011; visible from the road.
An 1893 tea room in Kanie, Aichi, built under the design guidance of Yoshida Shokei of Omotesenke. Four and a half mats, 35 square meters. Registered 2011, closed.
A single-storey timber shed in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1909 to hold a three-tier festival float. Its 7-metre eaves and 4.55-metre frontage follow the float.
A mid-Meiji machiya at the junction of two old highways in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. Its plot still follows a late Edo castle map showing a notice board.
The Yoshino Family Residence in Inuyama, Aichi, had five buildings listed in 2013, and all were struck from the register on 10 February 2026 after demolition.
Built in 1878 as an exposition appraisal hall in Nagoya and used as Emperor Meiji's temporary seat, this timber hall moved to Atsuta Shrine in 1968. Registered 2001.
The 1882 bell tower of Renkyoji in Nagoya, a hip-and-gable belfry with leaning posts, fan rafters and a carved turtle on its gable. Registered property.
The great gate of Renkeiji in Agui, Aichi, built in 1896, is a grand four-legged gate with close-set brackets and decorated gables on double tie beams.
Held in the Hosa Library in Nagoya, the Song Edition of the Taiping Shenghui Fang (Kanazawa Bunko Version) is a Southern Song printed copy of the imperial medical encyclopedia originally compiled in 100 volumes by Wang Huaiyin under the command of Emperor Taizong. Designated an Important Cultural Property, it traveled from Hōjō Sanetoki's Kanazawa Bunko through Toyotomi Hidetsugu and Tokugawa Ieyasu to the first Owari lord Tokugawa Yoshinao. The 24 surviving printed booklets, supplemented by 27 Keichō-era manuscript volumes, bear the distinctive 'Kanazawa Bunko' and 'Gohon' seals on every volume, making it a primary witness to East Asian medical history.