Meiji
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A mid-Meiji merchant house on a T-junction corner in Makabe, Sakuragawa. Its west flank alone is plastered like a storehouse, a fire precaution learned in 1837.
An 1893 earthen storehouse set deep in a Makabe merchant plot. Its ridgepole inscription names the month of building and the master carpenter, a rare dated record.
The Fuchu Homare kamaba in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is an early Meiji earthen building whose raised koshiyane roof vented the steam from rice steamed for sake.
The shikomigura at the heart of the Fuchu Homare brewery in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a two-story earthen hall of 47.5 by 20 meters, largest of its registered buildings.
The 1869 main house of the Fuchu Homare brewery in Ishioka, Ibaraki, turns a fireproofed north wall to the old provincial street and opens a tour of the brewery.
The tsukiya at the Fuchu Homare brewery in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a plain mid-Meiji earthen building of 132 sqm where sake rice was hulled and polished before brewing.
The Fuchu Homare nagayamon in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a small early Meiji timber gate with zelkova posts, said to copy the old checkpoint gate of former Fuchu town.
The Fuchu Homare bunkogura in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a three-story black-plaster storehouse of 1894, its ridge beam naming the carpenter and plasterer who built it.
The old kettle storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. Built in 1904, it held the steaming kettle and recalls a wartime requisition. A Registered Property.
The brewing storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. Built in 1909, this single-storey dozo still ferments the winter mash. A Registered Cultural Property.
The product storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. A late-Meiji two-storey dozo, it is the largest on site. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
The side storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. A late-Meiji dozo and the smallest building, it completes the street frontage. A Registered Property.
On Makabe's Takajomachi Street, this merchant property pairs a middle Meiji dwelling with a shopfront rebuilt after the 1923 earthquake. Registered in 2002.
This late-Meiji farmhouse at Iizuka in Makabe, Sakuragawa, was registered in 2003 for its tall frame, glass-banded upper walls and projecting-purlin eaves.
An early-Meiji gatehouse at Iizuka in Makabe, Sakuragawa, registered in 2003: a 17.6-metre street front of zelkova gateway, white plaster and notched boarding.
The main house of the Masubuchi family in Makabe, Ibaraki, built in 1873 behind the shop, has three tatami rooms that open into it and matching clapboard walls.
The shop of the Masubuchi family in Makabe, Ibaraki, built in 1873, is a plastered shop front with a canopy, bargeboard trim and zelkova shutter boxes.
The nagayamon gate of the Masubuchi family in Makabe, Ibaraki, built in 1873 beside the shop, is a small gate of fine zelkova with wickets and double beams.
The main house of the Mamiya family in Hitachiomiya, Ibaraki, built in 1902, joins a farmhouse wing to a three-storey Western wing with pale-green walls.
An early Meiji grain store of 11 by 4.5 metres at Hojo in Tsukuba, turned into a concert hall in 2008. Audiences enter the earthen interior on recital days.