Meiji
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Two thatched buildings standing in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Ninety whole years separate the front one there from the rear one even now.
A Meiji-period office at Yoshino, Kagoshima, Japan. Once a Shimazu family gold mine office elsewhere, it sets arches and clapboard under Japanese roofs.
A Meiji-period hydroelectric station building in Hioki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Of stone, with an octagonal tower, it bears the Shimazu family crest.
An 1894 stone gate in Yamashitacho, Kagoshima City. Its 3.1-metre opening served a middle school, a library and the prefectural office. Registered 2008; free to see.
A late Meiji wall of tuff and brick at the Shigetomi Shimazu villa in Kagoshima City, registered in 2014, 24 metres long and following the rise and fall of the ground.
The late Meiji main house of the Shigetomi Shimazu villa in Kagoshima City, registered in 2014, three blocks in echelon with fine alcoves and openwork transoms.
This 1909 timber office in Kagoshima has a curved mukuri porch bearing the Shimazu crest. Moved to the site in 1986, it now houses the Satsuma Kiriko gallery shop.
The 1909 stone head tank of the Sogi hydroelectric station in Isa, Kagoshima, registered in 2006, with four openings for penstocks, a relic of early Kyushu hydropower.
The 1909 brick generator hall of the Sogi hydroelectric station in Isa, Kagoshima, registered in 2006, among the earliest large brick buildings in southern Kyushu.
Sameshima Family Residence Stone Wall: a late Meiji wall in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, of cut local tuff topped by clipped hedge, running 72 metres round the estate.
Sameshima Family Residence Well: a late Meiji stone well in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, under a stone slab roof with wooden doors, a paved washing floor and a shrine.
Sameshima Family Residence Inner Storehouse: a late Meiji 2-storey earthen store in Kaseda, Kagoshima, with a 3.2-metre east canopy and floor raised 70 cm on stones.
Sameshima Family Residence Storehouse, a late Meiji earthen store on the lane in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, on high cut stone, its door facing into the estate.
Sameshima Family Residence Main House, a late Meiji home in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima: a gabled kitchen wing and hip-gabled reception wing in white lime plaster.
Sameshima Family Residence Courtyard Garden Gate, a slim late Meiji gate in Kaseda, Kagoshima, 1.3 metres wide, with a carved panel of gulls over running water.
Sameshima Family Residence Gate, a late Meiji 2-storey nagayamon in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, with plastered walls, square windows and a room over the passage.
Sameshima Hiroshi Family Residence Stone Wall, an early Meiji tuff wall in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, 2.1 metres high and 49 metres long, with an angled course.
Sameshima Hiroshi Family Residence Storehouse, an early Meiji earthen store in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, on cut tuff by the entrance, with a lean-to over its door.
Sameshima Hiroshi Family Residence Main House, an early Meiji samurai house in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, with red earth walls and a fan-shaped window.
Sameshima Hiroshi Family Residence Gate, an early Meiji gate set back from the lane in Kaseda, Kagoshima, with a lattice, curved rafters and clapboard wing fences.