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The Kamiya Family Residence Kettle House and Storage Shed in Anjo, Aichi, is a 14-metre strip of building, 1.8 metres deep, whose black wall reads as a fence.
The Kamiya Family Rice Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji kura of 80 square metres, its 7.3-metre span crossed by beams trebled up in the roof frame.
The Kamiya Family Residence Plastering Room and Charcoal Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a workshop range of about 1905 built continuous with the estate's main gate.
The Kamiya Family Residence Tatami Room in Anjo, Aichi, is an early Meiji reception wing of 85 square metres with a circular lattice window and a tea room.
The Kamiya Family Grain Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji two-storey kura whose window hood brackets are modelled in plaster into spiral scrolls.
The Kamiya Family Residence Main Gate in Anjo, Aichi, is a 14-metre gatehouse of 1905, hipped at the east end and gabled at the west, with rooms built in.
The Kamiya Family Residence Yokoya in Anjo, Aichi, is an early Meiji wing boarded shut towards the street and opened with posts and a veranda on the courtyard side.
The Kamiya Family Residence Connecting Passage in Anjo, Aichi, is a 13-metre link joining the estate's workrooms to its rice storehouse, open on the inner side.
Moved from a town in 1917 and remade as a farmhouse, the Kawata Family Residence in Fuso, Aichi keeps a machiya roof and plan while its upper floor reared silkworms.
The Kankyo mirin factory in Kanie, Aichi, begun in 1877 and extended in 1906 and 1913, is a U-shaped works with earthen walls and rows of high windows.
A timber school hall of about 1897 in Okazaki, Aichi, sold to a spinning mill in 1925 and moved onto its grounds. Said to be Japan's oldest of its kind.
The Former Isobe Family Residence, Inner Storehouse of 1875 closes the rear garden of a merchant plot in Inuyama, Aichi. Its canopy timbers are fully plastered.
The Former Isobe Family Storehouse of 1875 stands alone behind a merchant plot in Inuyama, Aichi. Namako tilework, stepped shutters, interior views on dry days.
The Former Isobe Family Residence Storage Shed of 1875 ends a long merchant plot in Inuyama, Aichi. A single central post carries its two wide floors.
The Former Ito New Room in Handa, Aichi, registered in 2022, is a Meiji reception wing of three rooms in line, fitted out as a resting place for the Meiji Emperor.
A Meiji pseudo-Western building on the grounds of the Toyota City Folk Craft Museum in Aichi. Twice relocated, it mixes four window types. Exterior viewing only.
An early Meiji two-storey retirement cottage at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, with a sukiya-style six-mat room opening onto a courtyard.
The tiled yakuimon gate and flanking barns of around 1872 at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, forming the dignified frontage of a shipowner's home.
The main house of the Uchida Saheiji branch family in Utsumi, Minamichita, Aichi, built around 1872 and sharing much of its plan with the main Uchida house.
An early Meiji openwork fence of round-bamboo lattice at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, framing the retirement cottage's garden. Registered.