Meiji
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In Kojima, western Kumamoto, stands Hamada Soy Sauce's third storehouse, a 218-square-meter earthen warehouse of the mid-Meiji era, registered in 2007.
Hamada's early-Meiji soy sauce main house in Ojima, Kumamoto, founded 1818, keeps lattice windows and a namako-plaster base on a registered storehouse street.
At the western edge of a former sake brewer's estate in Hikawa, Kumamoto, a 14-meter plaster wall from the late Meiji period is braced inside by welded-tuff pillars.
In Hikawa, Kumamoto, the Iseri family brewed and banked. Their 1872 earthen rice storehouse, with three squared front posts, moved to the family estate in 2000.
A registered early-Meiji yakuimon gate at the former Iseri residence in Hikawa, Kumamoto, with a tortoiseshell namako wall and colored tiles set into its floor.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Front Gate in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a stone gate of about 1894 with sandstone pillars and double doors 5.8 metres wide.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Rice Storehouse in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a large Meiji-era earthen storehouse of 247 square metres, moved here in 1930.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Lower Gate in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a service gate of about 1894 with one wide door, built for moving goods and carts.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Main House in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is an 1894 timber landowner's house of 769 square metres, prized for its fine carpentry.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Row House in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a tiny 1894 building of 12 square metres that once lodged the estate's menservants.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Wall in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a tiled board fence of about 1894, 161 metres long, with a plastered front of 30 metres.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Central Gate in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a small gate of about 1894 that led to the kitchen, with lattice screens and a door.
The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Miso Storehouse in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is an 1894 corner storehouse where the family made its own miso and soy sauce.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Rear Gate in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a small 1870 yakuimon gate on the north road, flanked by roofed board fences.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Front Gate in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is an 1870 yakuimon gate with heavy posts and roofed earthen walls, visible from the road.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Storehouse in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is an 1889 kura with namako tile walls, white lime plaster and tiled drip ledges.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Main House in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is an 1873 landowner's home dated by its ridge tablet, with rooms styled on samurai houses.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Middle Gate in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a small 1870 gate in a roofed bamboo fence that led from the compound to the fields.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Barn in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a long 1889 outbuilding, weatherboarded almost to the eaves on the side facing the road.
The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Miso Storehouse in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a small 1889 kura whose street front is weatherboarded level with its fences.