Meiji
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An early Meiji farm building across the old San'in Road from the Nishio compound in Tambasasayama, combining a waterwheel house and a taller cattle and chicken shed.
The early Meiji gate and wall of the waterwheel shed lot at the Nishio compound in Tambasasayama, matching the forecourt wall across the old San'in Road.
A late Meiji earthen storehouse south of the main house at the Nishio compound in Tambasasayama, plastered to the eaves and used as a family museum when registered.
A 1907 granite arched bridge over the sacred pond of Nishinomiya Shrine, Hyogo, registered in 2013, donated by the founder of the Hakutaka brewery.
A delicate 1904 shelter at Nishinomiya Shrine, Hyogo, registered in 2025, built for a lantern and now housing the Ebisu Bell given after Hideyori's rebuilding.
Built around 1891 in Tamba City, Hyogo, this gable-entered machiya still trades as the Kotsuzumi brewery shop. Registered in 2007 for its projecting zashiki wing.
Early Meiji two-storey clay storehouse at a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo, with a raised okiyane roof and plaster up to the eaves. Registered 2019.
A mid-Meiji composite building in Tatsuno joining a raw material store, salt-dissolving room and brewing rooms, its plaster and board east wall lining a waterway.
Two gabled Meiji storehouses in Tatsuno used as a koji room and anteroom, the koji room lined with insulated double brick and topped by a ventilating ridge.
An L-shaped mid-Meiji storehouse in Tatsuno: a street-front sundries store with a hip-and-gable end, black boarding and lattice windows, and a brewing wing behind.
A mid-Meiji brewing storehouse in Tatsuno with a pent roof, plaster walls, sasarako board cladding and latticed windows, dressed like the townhouse office beside it.
A 1908 headman's farmhouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a thatched roof under copper with tiled lean-tos, an earthen work area, six rooms and a formal entrance.
A late Meiji annex behind a headman's farmhouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo: one four-and-a-half-mat room with an alcove, boarded below and white above, by the storehouse.
A late Meiji gatehouse on the street front of a headman's homestead in Amagasaki, Hyogo: double plank doors with a wicket, black plaster outside, white inside.
A late Meiji gate and fence around the inner garden of a headman's house in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a bracketed gate with a sliding lattice door and a two-toned fence.
A late Meiji brick wall on the street front of a headman's homestead in Amagasaki, Hyogo: 2 metres high, tiled, grey outside and white inside to match the gatehouse.
Homei Sake Brewery Office No. 1 is a one-room Meiji office of 6.3 square meters in Tamba-Sasayama, with a near single-pitch roof and a lattice motif on its wall.
Homei Sake Brewery Office No. 2, a late Meiji hip-and-gable office in Tamba-Sasayama, stands by the south entrance that served the working brewery, not the shop.
Homei Sake Brewery Annex, a mid-Meiji wing in Tamba-Sasayama, has three tatami rooms, a Western room, a formal entrance and an alcove, registered for its design.
The Chushudo Hall of Hontokuji in Himeji, rebuilt in 1898 by the ninth Ito Heizaemon, joins two roofs in one of the few surviving chushudo halls of its kind.