Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An 1895 earthen storehouse that once brewed sake in Kariya, now at Meiji-mura. Note its drop-away fire boards, torii-shaped roof frame, and registered status.

Built in 1915 by Kitasato Shibasaburo, this German-Baroque timber laboratory was moved to Museum Meiji-mura in 1980 and is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Built in 1912 to face Kyoto's Nishi Hongan-ji, this wooden police box mimics Western brick in tile. Now at Museum Meiji-mura, its cut corner rewards a close look.

A Kyoto sake dealer's townhouse of 1870, re-erected at Museum Meiji-Mura. Behind its lattice front an open workshop holds a brick steaming furnace and a koji cellar.

A small merchant house built around 1868 at Yaizu, where Lafcadio Hearn rented the upper floor each summer. Re-erected at Museum Meiji-Mura and listed in 2004.

One of the 6 bronze lamp standards from the parapet posts of the Imperial Palace stone bridge in Tokyo, now at Museum Meiji-Mura with its ornament at eye level.

Meiji Village Koda Rohan Residence Kagyuan, listed in 2003, is the Tokyo home the novelist rented for about 10 years. See its ten-mat study, deep eaves and darkroom.

Meiji Village Ministry of Industry Shinagawa Glass Factory, listed in 2004, came from a state glassworks in Tokyo. Note the English bond brick and roof monitor.

Meiji Village Kobe Yamate Western Residence Main House, listed in 2003, came from the Yamate slopes of Kobe. Verandas wrap both floors on grooved posts.

A two-storey annex from a Kobe foreign residence, rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1969. It has no internal stair: the room upstairs is reached only from the main house.

A cast-iron light tower first lit in 1904 on an island in Hiroshima Bay, rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1976. Four stacked cylinders, raised in three months as war began.

A single-storey government building of 1888 from the Tokyo Imperial Palace precinct, rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1977. White plaster and an arcade of round arches.

Framed in Seattle around 1907 from mass produced lumber, this early platform framed house later served Japanese immigrants as a church. Moved to Meiji Mura 1984.

Takeda Goichi designed this 1911 Nishinomiya villa, European below and Japanese above, with a woven ceiling over its hall. Rebuilt at Meiji Mura, registered in 2008.

Built 1897-1906 on the Nakasendo in Nagano, Meiji Village Shimizu Clinic sets segmental arches and scored plaster over a Kiso storehouse frame. Registered 2003.

Built in 1908 for a Tokyo college hall that no longer exists, this 6.9-meter carriage porch was re-erected at Meiji Mura in 1980 with four matching faces.

A 23-meter length of the 1912 Shin-Ohashi, moved from the Sumida River to Meiji Mura in 1975. Art Nouveau railings meet granite newels, and you can walk across.

Dedicated in Kyoto in 1890 and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1973, this church carries a full Gothic scheme in Japanese zelkova, under a 3.6-meter rose window.

Built in 1909 for the Eighth Higher School in Nagoya, this brick gate carries three granite bands on each pier and iron leaves patterned with rings and spirals.

Built in 1879 on the island of Iojima off Nagasaki, this timber church wears a tiled Japanese roof outside and holds a three-aisled late Gothic interior within.

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