Meiji

A small tiled gate at a river-wharf merchant's house on the Edogawa in Noda, surviving beside a brick flood wall as a rare trace of the river's lost boat trade.

Discover Maruya, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kamagaya City, Chiba. This former Edo-period hatago inn on the Kioroshi Kaido preserves the atmosphere of a bygone post town, with connections to literary travelers and even a future emperor.

Discover Maruya Hanare, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Kamagaya City, Chiba. This refined Meiji-period annex of a former Kioroshi Kaido post-town inn once hosted Crown Prince Yoshihito, later Emperor Taisho.

Built in 1907 at an 1834-founded brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, this earthen storehouse once held rice and now stores soy-sauce barrels under a Meiji-era truss roof.

In Sanuki, a former castle town in Futtsu, Chiba, Miya has brewed soy sauce since the Edo period. The 1892 main house is one of nine registered buildings.

Newly designated in 2024, 839 documents trace one Nichiren temple across 620 years, from a monk's vow to guard his master's writings to letters from the Edo shogun's court.

Discover the Important Cultural Property collection of over 3,000 documents related to Okubo Toshimichi, one of the Three Great Nobles of the Meiji Restoration, housed at the National Museum of Japanese History in Sakura, Chiba.

A National Treasure near Tokyo: a Southern Song printing of the Hanshu in 61 fascicles, holding the earliest reliable Chinese record of Japan, the Wa people.

A complete Southern Song printing of the Book of the Later Han, kept in Sakura, whose account of the eastern peoples names Queen Himiko and an embassy of 57 CE.

A National Treasure near Tokyo: the Song-dynasty Shiji printed by Huang Shanfu, the oldest complete copy of the three-commentary edition, all 130 chapters intact.