Meiji
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A tea house of 1868 in the corner of a private garden in Tsushima, Aichi. Moved from Yatomi in 1948 onto a built-up mound. Four-and-a-half mats, 24 square metres.
At the rear of the deep Inoue lot, beyond the garden, stands this small early-Meiji storehouse of about 31 square meters, its walls clad in boarding. Listed 2004.
On Honmachi-dori in Inuyama's castle town, this early-Meiji townhouse now houses a pickle shop and tearoom, so visitors can step right inside. Listed 2004.
Built in 1909, the chūden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, is a rare middle hall between the worship and covering halls, carved with dragons and cranes.
Built in 1882, the haiden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, stands at the front of the central halls, richly carved, its roof re-tiled in 2024 to 2025.
An 1893 gabled block behind the main hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, housing a founder's hall with a cusped niche and a memorial tablet hall. Registered.
A townhouse of 1900 on Honmachi-dori in Inuyama, Aichi, built on a corner: plain gable north, hipped gable south, eaves wrapping round. Registered in 2005.
The monks' quarters of Enmyoji in Inuyama, Aichi, from the mid-Meiji period, is a carefully built reception building with a gabled formal entrance of fine timber.
A tiny Meiji strongroom beside the Okumura main house in Inuyama. Just 14 square metres, yet its tiled canopies and black plaster answer the view from the west.
A Meiji storehouse west of the Okumura rice store in Inuyama. Three ken square, taller than its neighbour, and finished with ridge-end tiles that mark a higher rank.
A Meiji outbuilding in Inuyama sharing two walls with a storehouse and a boundary wall, forming a narrow alley-like space against the compound's covered passage.
The East Takabei is a 17.4-meter plastered wall of a merchant compound in Inuyama, braced by buttress posts and listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
The watari-ro of the Okumura Residence in Inuyama is a Meiji-era covered corridor doubling as a well-house, one of nine registered buildings now run as a restaurant.
The Onoda Family Residence Main House in Toyohashi, Aichi, dates from 1886, with a reception wing of 1920 and a gatehouse of about 1849 in front. Registered 2013.
Kakuoji's gate in Fuso, Aichi, is a one-bay zelkova yakui-mon built in 1902, among five temple buildings on Japan's register of tangible cultural properties.
The parish hall of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church in Nagoya, a mid Meiji timber house in colonial style, has white-painted clapboard and a gabled entrance.
The brick wall of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church in Nagoya, a mid Meiji wall 29 metres long in English bond on a stone base, lines a historic street.
The Kamiya Family Residence Well House in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji well shelter with four inward-leaning posts, a cut-stone curb and a surviving bucket pulley.
The Kamiya Family Residence Inner Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji reception wing of 147 square metres, four rooms in a grid finished in the sukiya manner.
The Kamiya Family Residence Rear Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji two-storey mud-walled kura with a sheltered porch, used daily for household tools.