Meiji
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A Meiji-period magariya of 267 sq m, moved from Ohasama to Tono Furusato Village in 1991. Its rooms were rearranged in the local Tono sequence at that time.
Built in 1897 to a Ministry of Finance standard design, this Ichinoseki tobacco office keeps its wavy gable board and now opens free of charge as a local museum.
Yanagita Kunio lodged here while gathering the legends of Tono Monogatari. Registered in 2023, the inn joins a Tono townhouse to a later, grander guest wing.
On the Takano family grounds in Mizusawa, Iwate, this late-Meiji plank storehouse shows dropped-in board walls and a lobed openwork panel, registered in 2024.
The 1908 villa of the Nanbu family, former lords of Morioka, has a front that is Japanese on one side and Western on the other, and is now a community centre annex.
Residence No. 1 of the army remount depot at Rokuhara in Kanegasaki, Iwate, a field officers' house of about 1911, has a weatherboarded front and two entrances.
Residence No. 3 of the army remount depot at Rokuhara in Kanegasaki, Iwate, built in 1911, shares the brick base, weatherboarding and sash windows of its neighbours.
Residence No. 2 of the army remount depot at Rokuhara in Kanegasaki, Iwate, built in 1911, is a plainer officers' house with Japanese rooms on the south.
The first main building of the latitude observatory at Mizusawa, Iwate, built in 1900 as one of six world stations for latitude work, is now a memorial hall.
The zenith telescope room of the Mizusawa latitude observatory in Iwate, built in 1899 in steel, has a roof that slides on rails to open over its stone pier.
The target pier and shelter of the Mizusawa latitude observatory in Iwate, built in 1900 to calibrate its zenith telescope, pair a brick pier with a timber shelter.
The Sato Family Residence Small Storehouse in Senmaya, Iwate, is a small 1902 kura with namako-kabe on its street side and pebbly render facing the garden.
The Sato Family Residence Main House in Senmaya, Iwate, is a two-storey house of 1901 with a hipped-roof porch, a zelkova door and a granite step, open to visitors.
An early Meiji two-story clay storehouse behind the Sendaiya house in Tono, with walls thickening toward the ground, stepped doors and white-and-black plaster.
An 1892 clay storehouse for unhulled rice at Sendaiya in Tono: 9.6 by 5.7 m, a two-level south room and a north half open to the roof, and a namako-kabe tiled base.
An 1897 warehouse closing the north end of the Sendaiya lot in Tono: 17 m long, a roof stepping down at the north end, rough clay okabe walls and three compartments.
An 1882 townhouse on Tono's Chuo-dori with a 9.5-ken front joining the original house and a former inn, and rooms in a single line from shop to living room.
An 1888 two-story clay storehouse facing the Sendaiya courtyard in Tono, with doors and a window on the south and black plaster on its eaves band, openings and base.
The Yokoya Sake Brewery Rice-Steaming House in Senmaya, Iwate, is a late Meiji timber workshop for steaming sake rice, with a big ridge vent and an 11-metre span.
The Yokoya Sake Brewery Koji Room in Senmaya, Iwate, is a stone koji house of about 1902, with a rock-faced granite base, Shiogama tuff above and a cornice.