Meiji
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Raised in 1875, seven years after the siege of Tsuruga Castle, this earthen-walled storehouse holds paired reception rooms and ranks among Aizu's oldest.
Standing at the street corner of a private compound in Aizuwakamatsu, this 1900 storehouse turns a blank plaster wall to the road, its roof framed the old way.
Built in 1908 in Shirakawa, Fukushima, this two storey storehouse holds a formal parlour finished in ebony. Registered in 2024, it is now the Fujita Memorial Museum.
Two shrines barely larger than a bedside table share one stone plinth at the edge of a private estate in Fukushima City, registered in 2016 with five others.
Built in 1890 at Umeta in Sukagawa, Fukushima, this small earthen storehouse wears namako tilework below and white lime above. Registered 2005; exterior views only.
The largest of three storehouses at a former headman's yard in Sukagawa, Fukushima, this early Meiji kura keeps mid-coat earth walls and a roof clear of the shell.
Ten square metres of early Meiji board walls beside the farmyard gate: the Watanabe Family Residence Paddy Granary in Okuma, Fukushima, registered in 2021.
A gate built without doors and thirty-eight metres of board fence: the late Meiji frontage of the Watanabe Family Residence in Okuma, Fukushima, registered in 2021.