Meiji
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Near Tokyo in Narashino, the Hirose family's 1909 grain warehouse is a Registered Cultural Property built without earthen walls, using densely set, board-clad posts.
In Chonan, central Chiba, a small Meiji storehouse held the Hoshino pharmacy's dispensary. Registered with the shop and gate, it looks much as in 1895.
The Hoshino Family Pharmacy in Chōnan, Chiba, is a Meiji-era black-plastered earthen shop on a former post-town street, still selling medicine after a century.
Built in 1871 by the Edo River, this Noda wharf merchant's house keeps three boat-inn rooms upstairs and a flood-gated brick wall—a rare relic of river trade.
In Noda, a former Edo River shipping family kept a Fudo Myo-o shrine under a square meter, built with the carpentry of a real shrine hall. Exterior view only.
In Noda, Chiba, a brick wall once doubled as flood defense: grooves at its ends held boards to dam the Edo River, fronting a Meiji-era river merchant's home.
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.