Meiji
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The Kotabe Foundry North Storehouse in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a 13 by 3 ken warehouse of the early Meiji era, filed under industry and registered in 2001.
The Kotabe Foundry South Storehouse in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a 2-storey earthen store of 55 square metres, registered in 2001 as a model of building design.
The Kotabe Foundry Gate in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a timber yakuimon of 3.0 metres, flanked by board and stone fences and registered in 2001 as a cultural property.
Konishi Misegura is an early Meiji shop-storehouse in Yuki, Ibaraki, registered in 2005. Black plaster walls, a low upper floor, no ridge tablet to date it.
A rice store of the middle Meiji era at Iizuka in Makabe, Sakuragawa, registered in 2003. Not a plastered vault but exposed posts and boarded walls, in house form.
Sakairi Family Residence Main House in Tsuji, Ishioka City is an early Meiji thatched farmhouse 21 meters wide, noted for the striped toshimono eaves of its roof.
The one timber building among five storehouses in a Koga merchant compound, dated to the early Meiji era. Registered in 2000 for the joinery of its rooms.
A late Meiji storehouse at the back of the Sakurai plot in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, said to have held pawned goods. Black plaster, worked eaves. Registered in 2004.
An early Meiji merchant house in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, registered in 2004. Its 2nd floor was added around 1921, and only the west gable is plastered against fire.
A mid-Meiji storehouse behind the main house in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. White lime plaster, boards on 3 of its 4 faces, iron shutters upstairs. Registered in 2004.
Sato Family Residence Front Gate in Makabe, Sakuragawa City is an early Meiji yakuimon 2.5 meters wide, with carved gegyo pendants and inlaid umeki on its posts.
A late Meiji yakuimon gate at the east end of Kamijuku-dori in Makabe, Sakuragawa, the Suzuki Family Residence Front Gate has a gabled roof and 2.4 metre opening.
An early Meiji gatehouse at Furushiro in Makabe, Sakuragawa, the Suzuki Brewery Nagayamon Gate covers 64 square metres beneath a deeply eaved hipped tiled roof.
The timber wing behind the storehouses of a kimono fabric wholesaler in Yuki, Ibaraki: two tatami rooms of about 1883, one holding the family altar. Registered 2014.
A small sleeve storehouse of 1883 standing gable-end to the street beside the shop of a former kimono fabric wholesaler in Yuki, Ibaraki. Registered in 2014.
A tall two-story shop storehouse of about 1883 facing west onto the old merchant street of Yuki, Ibaraki, with a black plaster cornice at the eaves. Registered 2014.
The Suzuki Boseki Main House in northern Yuki, Ibaraki, is a registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, built in 1906 alongside its companion storefront warehouse. Two surviving ridge tags record its construction details, and the building forms part of one of the Kanto region's finest surviving Meiji-era merchant streetscapes.
The Suzuki Boseki Misegura in Yuki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a Meiji-era shop-storehouse built in 1906 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property. Its unusual asymmetric roof — hipped on the right and gabled on the left — reflects the prosperity of Yuki as a silk-trading town famed for Yuki-tsumugi. Still in active use as the head office of Suzuki Boseki Co., Ltd., it embodies the principle of living heritage preservation.
At the rear of a merchant plot on Kujiragaoka ridge in Hitachiota, this storehouse of about 1908 has a burnished black plaster front and a torii-shaped door frame.
A single-story range of 1875 behind the family shop at Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its alcove, writing bay and open veranda survive; read as the original guest rooms.