Meiji

A gate of about 1872 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, standing where the Hita Kaido is said to have run until early Meiji, as a record of that change.

The main gate of about 1891 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: a yakuimon whose posts are granite at the front and timber at the back, flanked by a stone wall.

The 1890 main house of the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: a tall earth-floored hall, two rows of rooms, a jutting reception room and a plastered southwest face.

A 1902 guest pavilion of the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, reached by a corridor over an arched bridge, with fan rafters and a view over the village.

An 1870 storehouse on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with namako tile walls and quince-shaped windows with copper shutters, framing the front of the house.

The Chuai Tunnel of 1889, 432 metres long between Kawara and Miyako in Fukuoka, was dug to carry Chikuho coal and has brick portals framed in cut granite.

The largest of three brick miso storehouses facing a Yanagawa canal, roofed with a Western king post truss and bound to its neighbours by one sawtooth brick cornice.

A narrow two-storey townhouse on the old Karatsu Highway in Fukuoka keeps its earthen passage, its three rooms in single file, and a balustrade lacquered deep red.

An 1899 rice store in the northwest corner of the Minamikubota estate in Ukiha, Fukuoka: tall, gable-entry, on stone footings, weatherboarded on its north wall only.

The oldest building on the Minamikubota estate in Ukiha, Fukuoka: an early Meiji storehouse drawn on an 1895 house plan, plastered under its eaves; registered 2012.

A mid-Meiji barn in a corner of the Yoshimura grounds in Fukuoka, the oldest on site, board-clad under a gabled tile roof and made into two rooms after the war.

The gate of the Ryotei Sato villa in Ogori, Fukuoka, a late Meiji gate moved here in 1927, faces the old highway with massive posts and a high ridge above.