Meiji
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A 1910 reception house in Nakamura Park, Nagoya, built for Kato Kiyomasa's 300th anniversary, with a cusped-gable porch and fine tatami rooms. Registered property.
An early Meiji tea house in the taste of Omotesenke master Rokurokusai, moved to Nakamura Park in Nagoya in 1957, of simple and refined design. Registered property.
Nishikomaya Tamura Family Residence Main House, a late-Meiji brewer's townhouse on the old Tokaido in Toyohashi registered in 2014: six-room plan, lattice, eaves.
Nishikomaya Tamura Family Residence Storehouse, a late-Meiji earthen-walled vault behind a brewer's house in Toyohashi, registered in 2014: plaster front, boarding.
The Nogi Warehouse, an early Meiji brick powder magazine inside Nagoya Castle, was registered in 1997. In 1945 it sheltered 1,047 palace paintings from the air raid.
Built in 1907 on a high stone plinth against the Yahagi River, the Hatcho Miso Head Office Storehouse brewed miso until 1941 and reopened as a museum in 1991.
The Banjo Brewery Main House in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a late Edo two-storey dwelling of 171 square meters with a black plastered street front, registered in 2007.
The Banjo Brewery New Storehouse in Otakacho, Nagoya, is an early Meiji fermentation hall of 298 square meters with 8 continuous posts, registered in 2007.
The Banjo Brewery Outer Well in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a group of 6 early Meiji shafts on a detached plot, with concrete and Tokoname stoneware curbs, 2007.
The Motogura of Banjo Jozo in Odaka, Nagoya: a middle Meiji timber fermentation hall listed 2007, with steaming and testing rooms attached. Closed to visitors.
The 1898 core of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, by architect Tsumaki Yorinaka. A two-storey brewery adjoins a five-storey block with fireproof floors and cavity walls.
The largest wing of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, extended in three ranges from 1908 as Kabuto Beer sold. Note the English-bond walls, gables and strafing marks.
The single-storey half-timber wing of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, built in 1898 to wash, fill and ship bottles. Its timber frame recalls the Tomioka Silk Mill.
The Niomon Gate of Fumonji in Toyohashi, Aichi, a mid-Edo eight-legged gate at the entrance to the precinct, houses a pair of guardian kings and is finely carved.
Built in 1903 for the local war dead, this single-bay memorial hall at Hōshuin spans about 20 square meters, its porch carved with Rising Sun motifs of its era.
The shoin of Hosenji in Tsushima, Aichi, a Meiji-period building moved from the Hattori family residence in 1930, is a carefully built sukiya-style shoin.
The Horibe Family Residence Workshop is an 1893 storeroom, farm shed, and silkworm room on a former samurai plot in Inuyama, registered in 2006. Plan and visiting.
Built in 1883 by a former Naruse retainer turned silk grower, this is the only samurai-style house left in Inuyama's castle town. A spear rack recalls its warrior past.
A thick-walled kura from 1893 at the Horibe Residence in Inuyama. Plaster and dark boarding give it the classic armor of a storehouse, built for a silk-trading family.
The Horibe Family Residence Corridor is an 1893 covered passage on a former samurai plot in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2006. Layout, walls, and visiting hours.