Meiji
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A two-storey storehouse of around 1872 at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, standing on a street corner with plastered and clapboard walls.
In Shinshiro, Aichi, this earthen storehouse held the ledgers of East Mikawa's first private bank. Its mid-Meiji black-plaster doors survive by the 1925 hall.
The Former Kato Residence main house in Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a registered timber home of a Meiji landlord family, now used for the city's reminiscence therapy.
The Former Katō Family Residence Middle Gate, Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a plain Meiji yakuimon dividing the garden of a wealthy landowner's compound. Free to visit.
An imposing two-story earthen storehouse of the wealthy Katō landowners near Nagoya, this Registered Cultural Property now serves Kitanagoya's reminiscence center.
Early-Meiji timber gatehouse at the Former Kato Family Residence in Kitanagoya, Aichi, built for a landlord. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, open free.
In Inuyama, Aichi, this late-Meiji giyofu building once housed a village bank. A dragon ridge tile, a phoenix gable, and a tall hall remain as a registered property.
A brick culvert of 1900 beneath the embankment of the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, where a nine-metre shaft and an eleven-metre bore drain a valley.
A 76-metre brick railway tunnel of 1900 on the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, with a pilastered portal and a memorial to its builders at the mouth.
A 75-metre brick railway tunnel of 1900 on the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, with a stone coping above its portal and a stretcher-bond brick lining.
Registered in 2024, the Former Nakano Hanroku Residence Main House sits on the Handa Canal, an 1889 merchant house with a double-width alcove and a boat-plank fence.
A twelve-metre boundary wall of 1913 in Tsushima, Aichi. Lapped boarding faces the street, split bamboo the garden, and a low wicket door opens near its east end.
A small two-storey earthen storehouse in Tsushima, Aichi, entered from inside the main house rather than the yard. Its black boarded walls held the family archive.
A timber two-storey house of 1912 to 1914 in Tsushima, Aichi. Daily rooms sit downstairs and formal reception rooms upstairs, inverting the plan of an Edo townhouse.
A single-bay bracket-arm gate in Tsushima, Aichi, two metres wide under a tiled gable. Stone struts replace the timber ones usually set behind its posts.
A nineteen-metre brick boundary wall finished in January 1913 in Tsushima, Aichi. Laid in English bond with buttresses every two metres, it was built to stop fire.
A large early Meiji townhouse on the old Mino Road at Okoshi post town, built for a Kiso River ferry overseer. Its low tsushi-nikai floor and lattice front survive.
Built in 1903, the smallest and oldest of the storehouses. Its base wears namako tilework and a large ridge tile crowns it, dense with detail for its size.
Built in 1889, the oldest survivor. As the Kato family annex it lodged guests, with royalty named in local records; its black south wall anchors the streetscape.
A wall running about 28 metres along the front. Its southern base is granite in a tortoiseshell pattern, finished in black plaster, paired with the annex behind.