Meiji
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A mid-Meiji merchant house in Uchiko with a nineteen-metre frontage, white and grey plaster in contrast, and a carved crane on the gable. Now a soba restaurant.
A 1912 brick hydroelectric station of the Besshi copper mine in Niihama, Ehime, registered in 2011, keeping its original generators and Pelton wheels; free to visit.
Driven in 1893 for the Besshi copper mine railway in Niihama, Ehime, this curving brick bore runs 93 meters, with pilasters and a two-faced keystone at its portal.
Built in 1893 for the Besshi copper mine railway in Niihama, Ehime, this 39-meter German bowstring Warren truss still carries a tourist train over the Ashitanikawa.
On a wooded slope above the Uwa Sea in Ikata, Ehime, the Former Misaki Refinery Kiln preserves 22 Meiji-era copper smelting kilns with green schist arches.
A wax merchant's townhouse of about 1869 in Ozu, Ehime, with a 12-metre frontage, deep bracketed eaves and three linked reception rooms on the upper floor.
A middle Meiji storehouse behind the Murakami compound in Ozu, Ehime, raised on cut stone against Hijikawa floods and faced with sea-cucumber tiling at the base.
The chimney of the former Yamane smelter in Niihama, built in 1888 for the Besshi copper mine, is a 19-metre square brick stack on top of Mount Ikoyama.
The street front of a physician's estate in Dogo, Matsuyama: a bracket gate 3.5 metres wide with doors free of metal fittings, and 26 metres of plastered wall.
A late-Meiji physician's house on the shrine approach in Dogo, Matsuyama. A carved phoenix hangs from its convex entrance gable, and a tea room adjoins the door.
A copper-roofed gate and its plastered walls dividing the garden of a physician's estate in Dogo, Matsuyama into an entrance side and a reception side.
A roofed bench of just 2.2 square metres in a physician's garden in Dogo, Matsuyama, framed in knotty logs and linked to the tea room by stepping stones.
A mid-Meiji stone well at Iyoki in Uchiko, Ehime, registered in 2011: four granite blocks in a curb 1.3 meters across, under a small tiled roof. Private land.
An 1894 farmhouse at Iyoki in Uchiko, Ehime, registered in 2011: a tiled hipped roof, a low tsushi half storey, and formal zashiki rooms. Private home, closed.
A mid-Meiji storehouse at Iyoki in Uchiko, Ehime, registered in 2011: 9.9 by 5.0 meters, plastered walls, bare timber eaves. Privately owned and closed.
Kokonso in Shikokuchuo, Ehime, an early Meiji building moved here around 1897, is the reception wing of a headman's house with three rooms and a formal entrance.
The main house of Sasaki Shuzo in Tobe, Ehime, of about 1908, faces the old highway with a shop entrance, a lattice window and distinctive brackets under the eaves.
The brick chimney of Sasaki Shuzo in Tobe, Ehime, of the late Meiji period, is a tapering 20-metre stack with a corbelled top, visible from the national road.
A timber merchant house of about 1886 facing a Shikoku pilgrim road in Shikokuchuo, Ehime. Registered in 2003. Look up for the fish-and-wave ridge tile.
A one-bay timber gate of about 1886 joining a sake brewer's house in Shikokuchuo, Ehime. Registered in 2003. Its cloud-shaped ridge tiles match the house.