Meiji
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This middle Meiji storehouse in Handa City has walls plastered to the eaves and a single window. Linked to the main house by a corridor, it was registered in 2024.
Built around 1884 on the Morozaki road in Handa City, this merchant house pairs a working plan of seven rooms with tea-room detailing, and was registered in 2024.
The Mano Family Residence Main House is an 1894 two-story townhouse at the south gateway to Inuyama castle town, registered in 2005 for its toriniwa plan and lattice
The Mano Family Residence High Wall is an 1894 roofed timber wall, 29 meters long and 5 meters high, at a lender's compound in Inuyama castle town; registered 2005.
The Mano Family Residence Storehouse is an 1894 two-story earthen-walled kura of 121 square meters at the back of a lender's compound in Inuyama, registered in 2005.
The Mano Family Residence Detached Room is an 1894 single-story guest pavilion with an 8-mat tatami room behind a lender's main house in Inuyama, registered in 2005.
The 1899 main hall of Manpukuji in Chiryu, Aichi, a grand Shin hall of 603 square metres by master carpenter Onoda Matazo, with a twice-coved ceiling.
An 1889 timber townhouse in the castle town of Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. Projecting eaves, wooden lattice below and iron lattice above. Exterior only.
A single-storey timber wing of the middle Meiji era in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. It runs south from the townhouse passage and holds the bath and lavatory.
An early Meiji merchant house on the old Seto highway in Owariasahi, the Miyake Family Residence Main House hides a six-room farmhouse plan behind a townhouse face.
A two-story earthen-walled storehouse behind the Miyake family's Meiji-era merchant house on the old Seto Kaido, registered in 2022 for the streetscape it preserves.
In Owariasahi, Aichi, the Miyake family's roofed gate and tiled wall front the old Seto highway, marking an early-Meiji dyeing and brewing estate registered in 2022.
The Miyata Residence well house in Inuyama is a late-Meiji Registered Tangible Cultural Property, a small tiled shelter with a pulley hung from its ridge beam.
The Myojin Sluice Gate in Obu, Aichi, a 1901 registered property, carries a canal beneath a river through twin stone arches built in rare Meiji artificial stone.
At Meiji Mura near Inuyama stands a sentry box from the gate of Tokyo's Akasaka Palace, a National Treasure. Built in 1908, it is a Registered Cultural Property.
Built around 1887 in Kobe, now at Meiji-mura, this registered property pairs a stone-look Western front with a Japanese gabled porch and still serves beef hotpot.
Built in 1909 on the Gakushūin grounds in Tokyo and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1964, this registered property links a private Japanese wing to a Western office wing.
Built in 1907, Kanazawa Prison ranged five cell blocks around an octagonal guardhouse so a warder watched every wing. A timber wing survives at Museum Meiji-mura.
Built in 1907 for Kanazawa Prison and rebuilt at Museum Meiji Mura in 1977, this red-brick gate by Yamashita Keijiro survives from the Five Great Meiji Prisons.
An octagonal guardhouse from Kanazawa Prison, one of Meiji's Five Great Prisons. Five cell wings once radiated from this watch point, now preserved at Meiji Mura.