Meiji
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A Meiji-period brick railway bridge of three arches at Aka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Its downstream brickwork, toothed for a second track, has become ornament.
A Meiji-period main house in Ukiha, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Its own roof over there takes one form east and quite another form west even so even now.
The guest house of the former Fukuoka Prefectural Public Hall, a Western-style timber building of 1910 finished to look like stone, is a rare Meiji public building.
The main storehouse of Ishikura Sake Brewery in Hakata, Fukuoka, is a Meiji-era brewing hall 39 metres long whose truss roof was rebuilt after a fire in 2011.
The Ishizaka Tunnel of 1895 in Fukuoka, a curved brick tunnel cut by the Hoshu Railway, is the oldest railway tunnel in Kyushu and still carries trains.
Built in 1907 beside the old Nakatsu Kaido in Buzen, Fukuoka, this merchant house carries plaster quoins upstairs and a shop below. Registered in 2021.
A 4.8-metre tiled wall of the late Meiji period in Buzen, Fukuoka, with posts at one-ken bays, open transoms and a plank gate. Registered nationally in 2021.
The Kabashima Family Residence Koin in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a late Meiji barn under a hipped-gable roof with deep eaves, framing the forecourt of the estate.
The Kabashima Family Residence Main House in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a landowner's house of about 1897 with octagonal lattice windows and fine shoin rooms inside.
The Kabashima Family Residence Garden Gate and Fence in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a late Meiji gate and 9.8-meter fence screening the inner garden from the forecourt.
The Kabashima Family Residence East and North Gates and Fence in Itoshima are late Meiji bracket-arm gates on a 32-meter plastered fence running north from the barn.
The Kabashima Family Residence Small Shrine in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a late Meiji hokora 0.65 meters square on a brick plinth that guards the northeast.
The Kabashima Family Residence South Gate and Fence in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a late Meiji yakuimon gate 2.9 meters wide with 23 meters of fence, facing the house.
The Kabashima Family Residence Shrine in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a late Meiji household shrine of 5.5 square meters with brackets and a frog-leg strut on each gable.
The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Reception Wing in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is a two-room guest wing, first viewpoint for the Meiji pond garden, of 1887 or c.1906.
The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Main House in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is a full two-storey core dated 1887 or around 1906, registered in 2002 as a cultural property.
The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Treasure Storehouse in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is a ten-bay plastered store with hooded windows, dated c.1887 or to 1916.
A brick fan house of about 1904 from the Mitsubishi Hojo colliery in Fukuchi, Fukuoka, registered in 1997, one of the best-preserved coal industry buildings in Chikuho.
The Former Tamanoi Ryokan on Tsuyazaki beach in Fukutsu, Fukuoka, a timber inn of 1909 extended again and again, looks out to sea from its upstairs veranda.
This twin-gabled brick substation of around 1909 in Omuta converted AC into the DC that drove the Miike Coal Mine Railway. Now an office; exterior viewing only.