Meiji
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Late Meiji wing running north from Kamotsuru's No. 2 front range in Saijo, with namako tiles and white plaster, its long wall broken by narrow three-bar windows.
Late Meiji main well of Kamotsuru's No. 2 Brewhouse in Saijo, a 40 cm hexagon of 19 cm cut stone now enclosed indoors; the only well registered as a model of design.
Late Meiji well in the southeast corner of Kamotsuru's head-office site in Saijo, built of round fieldstone, unlike the brewery's three hexagonal registered wells.
Timber clubhouse of 1907 in Etajima, Hiroshima, built for navy sailors and petty officers, with a gabled porch and balcony; preserved by volunteers, open by booking.
Single-storey navy club hall of 1905 moved from Kure to Etajima, Hiroshima, in 1928, with a martial arts hall and games room behind the main Kaiyusha building.
Kirei Sake Brewery No. 1 Storehouse in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, is a late-Meiji brewhouse whose 34- and 17-metre white plaster wings meet in an L under red tiles.
Street-front house of a former ryotei inn in Fuchu, Hiroshima: an early Meiji front with guest wings of 1905 and 1912 and a lookout storey; free entry to 2 floors.
The Saijo Tsuru Brewery Shuhogura Fermentation Storehouse is a late-Meiji earthen storehouse in Saijo, the brewery's largest, with lattice windows and red tiles.
The Saijo Tsuru Brewery Shuhogura Brewing Storehouse is a late-Meiji earthen storehouse in Saijo under a red-tile gable roof, the core of brewing on the site.
The Saijo Tsuru Brewery Store and Main House is a late-Meiji shop-home in Saijo with a lift-up door, an earthen passage and five rooms in a row ending in a parlor.
Built in 1907 below the main hall's steps, this copper-roofed worship hall greets you with a karahafu porch and carved struts; a plain offering hall sits behind.
Built in 1907 on a hill above the Inland Sea, this small copper-roofed main hall stacks a chidori gable over a karahafu porch and fills its eaves with carved detail.
This 1893 earthen storehouse pairs white plaster with a boarded base. Its projecting drip tiles, peaked at the gable ends, turn rain-shedding into crisp form.
Added in 1909, this reception wing opens to a pond garden. Its great room holds the finest carving on the site, including peonies with a lion cut from one Yakusugi board.
Built in 1891 by the Hozawa merchants, this is old Higashijo's largest town house, known for its layered yatsumune roof and black-plaster wall of flower windows.
Built around 1902 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Rear Gate and Earthen Wall includes a 115-metre wall raised by villagers to welcome a new doctor.
Built around 1902 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Nagayamon Gate and Clinic joined a gatehouse with inpatient rooms to a clinic, a late-Meiji rural hospital.
The Takiguchi Family Residence Storeroom in Shobara, Hiroshima, is the estate's oldest building, a late-Meiji wing with a curved-beam loft and its original bath.
An early Meiji two-storey gatehouse 31 metres long on the old Fukuyama–Fuchu highway, with a rice store and servants’ rooms, now the Nobuoka Flat Museum in Fukuyama.
An early Meiji brick chimney 25 meters tall at Hakubotan's Enpogura in Saijo, in English bond with a corbelled top and the name in katakana; registered in 2017.