Meiji
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A late Meiji document storehouse of 20 square metres at Hojo in Tsukuba, smallest of the registered buildings there, with a plaster medallion over its window.
An early Meiji cooking wing of 37 square metres running east from the dwelling house at Hojo in Tsukuba, with a bath and stores attached. Registered in 2003.
An early Meiji outbuilding of 31 square metres at the north-east corner of the Miyamoto compound in Hojo, Tsukuba: charcoal and miso store north, garage south.
An early Meiji guest wing of 60 square metres at Hojo in Tsukuba, three rooms in restrained sukiya taste, with copper sheeting along the edge of its tiled roof.
An early Meiji gate 2.4 metres wide on the old street of Hojo in Tsukuba, registered together with its plastered wall. Visible from the pavement at any time.
Discover Musashiya Shop in Koga, Ibaraki — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property dating to the mid-Meiji period. Dine on traditional grilled eel inside a black-walled, two-story dozo-zukuri restaurant standing on the former Nikko Kaido post-town street.
An early Meiji earthen-walled sake shop of 231 square meters in Makabe, Sakuragawa, registered in 2004. Its gable roof drops halfway along, and it still trades.
A two-storey earthen-walled grain store on a corner plot in Makabe, Sakuragawa, built before 1902 and registered in 2000. Dressed stone base, boards, plaster above.
A yakuimon gate 2.7 metres across in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Forward purlins carry a boarded soffit, wicket doors pierce the wing walls, and it was listed in 2005.
A merchant house of about 1902 in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its lean-to shopfront gives way to a hipped reception wing and a kitchen wing behind, listed in 2005.
A two-storey plastered godown of about 1902 at the rear of a Makabe plot in Sakuragawa City, its doorway and one gable window shuttered against fire. Listed in 2005.
The Yaguchi Family Residence Rear Storehouse in Makabe is a large early Meiji clay store, unusual for its six windows. Registered in 2005 at 83 square metres.
The Yaguchi Family Residence Grain Storehouse in Makabe is a tall early Meiji clay store whose only windows sit high in the gable walls. Registered in 2005.
The Yaguchi Family Residence Main House in Makabe is an early Meiji dwelling with a hipped pantile roof, a low half storey and four 8-mat rooms in a square plan.
The Yaguchi Family Residence Store in Makabe is a gable-fronted merchant shop of 1900. Its ridge tablet names the carpenter, and it was registered in 2000.
The Yaguchi Family Residence South Sleeve Storehouse in Makabe repeats its older twin half a century on: clay walls above, lapped boarding below. Registered 2000.
The Yaguchi Family Residence Gate in Makabe is a late Meiji yakuimon 2.7 metres wide, its ridge tiles stacked with unusual care. Registered as a structure in 2000.
A Meiji gate range at Sakurai in Makabe, moved from the village of Amabiki around 1892, turned into a shopfront under a pent roof, with a living wing added behind.
Yanaka Family Residence Main House is a thatched farmhouse of 1897 in Yachiyo, Ibaraki, registered in 2022. Its eaves edge is laid in checkerboard hemp stalks.
A mid-Meiji dozo-zukuri storehouse in Makabe, Sakuragawa: 78 square metres, a high stacked ridge, plaster drip mouldings and rendered eaves. Registered in 2003.