Meiji
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A thatched Meiji-period farmhouse at Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. Moved from a mountain hamlet in 1990, its plan divides into three parts along its length.
Single-storey 1897 storehouse at Iwasaki Yataro's birthplace in Aki, Kochi, joined to the East Storehouse by a shared roof over an office. Registered in 2010.
An early Meiji wall of mountain stone and red earth, known locally as ishiguro, edging the fields at Iwasaki Yataro's birthplace in Aki, Kochi. Registered 2010.
Late Meiji lodge in the corner of Iwasaki Yataro's birthplace in Aki, Kochi, with a combined hipped and hip-and-gable roof and a kitchen wing. Registered in 2010.
A 1908 one-bay nagare-zukuri shrine at Iwasaki Yataro's birthplace in Aki, Kochi, with octagonal posts and a diamond crest on its front. Registered in 2010.
Two-storey 1886 storehouse behind Iwasaki Yataro's birthplace in Aki, Kochi, with Tosa plaster, tiers of drip tiles and the Iwasaki crest. Registered 2010.
The Iwamura Residence storehouse in Aki, Kochi, is an early Meiji two-storey storehouse with a floating tiled roof, plaster walls and 2 rows of rain-shedding tiles.
The Iwamura Residence gate and palanquin room in Aki, Kochi, is an early Meiji bracket-arm gate with an attached palanquin room, forming a dignified street front.
A two-story mid-Meiji shop on a Susaki corner, walled in black lime plaster, with eaves stepped out in three tiers and a coffered office. Registered in 2016.
A late Meiji gate 2.4 metres wide on a village lane in Konan City, Kochi. Unusually thick timbers, a gently curved tile roof, and short walls to either side.
A late Meiji house of 206 square metres in Konan City, Kochi. Farmhouse rooms to the west, formal zashiki to the east, registered in 2024 as a model of design.
A two storey plastered storehouse of 52 square metres in Konan City, Kochi. Projecting tile courses throw off the rain and the roof uses left handed pantiles.
A late Meiji boundary running 20 metres in Konan City, Kochi. Built on large undressed stones and roofed with tile, it ties three gates into a single frontage.
A small late Meiji gate 1.8 metres wide inside a compound in Konan City, Kochi. Copper roofed, it closes the dog-legged approach and opens on the eastern garden.
A plain late Meiji gate 2.0 metres wide in Konan City, Kochi. Boarded on one side, latticed slider on the other, it led the household to its own entrance.
The lecture hall of the former army 44th Infantry Regiment in Kochi, built in the late Meiji period to train officers, is a white timber hall with king-post trusses.
The magazine of the former army 44th Infantry Regiment in Kochi, built in the late Meiji period, is a brick building with thick walls and iron-clad doors.
The main hall of Kuwaze Shrine in Ino, Kochi, an early Meiji shrine on a ledge beside a waterfall, sits inside a cover hall, carved with painted dragons.
The Goto Family Residence Wooden Fence, an 1896 board fence in Aki, runs 5.0 metres from the main house to the barn, with tile coping and a sliding wicket door.
The Goto Family Residence Main House, built in 1896 on the Aki Castle site, is a registered hipped-roof house whose tiles change direction slope by slope.