Meiji
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Rebuilt in 1875, the Itsukushima Shrine Great Torii is anchored by nothing: pine piles, gravel in its box lintel and its own mass keep it upright in the sea.
House of Rai Shunpu, uncle of Rai San'yo, in Takehara, Hiroshima: five buildings including an 1855 main house and gatehouse in a samurai-style layout.
The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence main house in Shiraichi, Higashihiroshima, is an 1871 ironcasters' townhouse. Metal fittings on its lattice recall the trade. Registered 2025.
The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence detached wing in Shiraichi is a refined Meiji guest room and tea room, said to have lodged a prince. Registered 2025 as a design model.
The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence gate and wall edge an old street in Shiraichi. Its stone-stepped yakui-mon gate bears castle-style shachihoko ornaments. Registered 2025.
Built around 1905 on the old Saigoku Kaido in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, the Ota Family Residence Main House pairs a latticed ground floor with black tile above.
A late Meiji storehouse moved in the early Showa era to the rear of the Ota family estate in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, with a tiled drip course and a gable door.
A late Meiji gate in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, 6.3 m wide with a 3 m plank-door opening and a wicket door. Registered in 2012, it predates the house it faces.
Early Meiji earthen brewing storehouse at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, laid out in a T with white plaster walls; the main brewing building.
Late Meiji earthen storage storehouse 39 metres long at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, with storage tanks inside; it shapes the brewery's look.
Early Meiji earthen store at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, converted from a household store into a packing house, with drip tiles on its gable.
Facing Saijo's sake street, Kamoizumi Shuzo's late-Meiji main house sets a merchant's earthen passage beside a formal ten-mat guest room behind a latticed front.
The brewery's smallest building, this 16-square-metre late-Meiji storehouse was moved whole by hikiya, its near-windowless walls edged with water-shedding tiles.
An early Meiji well in the corner of Kamotsuru's founding site in Saijo: a hexagonal cut-stone curb over a round fieldstone shaft, in use since the brewery began.
The smallest Kamotsuru listing in Saijo: an early Meiji two-story storehouse, plastered to the eaves and boarded inside, gable-end west beside its twin.
Kamotsuru's founding-site brewhouse in Saijo: an early Meiji earthen kura extended south in the Taisho and Showa eras, now the brewery shop and museum.
An early Meiji earthen brewhouse facing the west wing on Kamotsuru's founding site in Saijo, with octagonal roof timbers; now part of the shop and tour room.
A single-story early Meiji storehouse on Kamotsuru's founding site in Saijo, twin to the north storehouse but a meter wider and lower, both gables facing west.
Late Meiji brick chimney beside Kamotsuru's No. 2 Brewhouse in Saijo: 14 m of English bond with a corbelled crown and the Kamotsuru name; oldest of the four stacks.
Late Meiji core brewhouse of Kamotsuru in Saijo, ridge running east-west, its front faced with namako tiles below white plaster and lattice windows; still brewing.