Meiji
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An 1887 seaside guest house at Futami near Ise, built in two months for an empress. A 120-mat hall and ornate rooms are highlights. Closed for restoration from 2026.
The mid-Meiji main house of the Akai Family Residence in Iga faces the gate gable-first. Its plan, with two projecting wings, follows the earlier samurai house.
A two-story storehouse of 1895 at the Akai Family Residence in Iga, set on a cut-stone base, with a plastered doorframe and a small canopy on carved brackets.
Tile-capped earthen walls of 1895 linking the gate and storehouse of the Akai Family Residence in Iga, with a small south gate and tall inuyarai along the street.
Built in 1895 and registered in 2014, the Asanokan Entrance Wing fronts Ise's Futami inn row with a hipped-and-gabled pantile roof and a projecting gabled porch.
The Asanokan Banquet Wing of 1895 holds an eighty-mat hall under a coved coffered ceiling, with a shoin-style alcove wall and a rear door onto the beach at Ise.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Well House is a late Meiji open shelter in Yokkaichi whose four inward-leaning posts carry a tiled roof over a stone-curbed courtyard well.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Steaming House is a late Meiji hall in Yokkaichi where rice was washed and steamed, with open roof framing and a ridge ventilator for steam.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Former Rice Storehouse is a mid Meiji grain store in Yokkaichi, beside the old rice mill, with a stone-framed door and exposed roof framing.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Former Rice Mill is a mid Meiji rice-polishing hall in Yokkaichi with artificial-stone door frames, set by the main gate and family house.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Main House, built in 1891 in Yokkaichi, Mie, is a black-plastered brewer's home with a through passage and six rooms, framing the street front.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Storehouse and Office is a late Meiji building in Yokkaichi that pairs a sake store with the office, marked by tall windows in plaster frames.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Barn is a long two-storey Meiji utility building in Yokkaichi that ends the continuous boarded wall running beside the old rice mill and store.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery West Earthen Wall is a late Meiji roofed timber wall in Yokkaichi, 19 metres long, with white plaster panels and bracketed, tiled eaves.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery West Reception Wing, an 1898 guest wing in Yokkaichi, links to the family house by a corridor, with four tatami rooms facing a small garden.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Bottling House is a late Meiji two-storey hall in Yokkaichi where sake was bottled, with split vertical and lapped boards and two window tiers.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Pressing House is a late Meiji building in Yokkaichi where sake was pressed in a sunken bay lined with small tiles on the brewery's west edge.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery South Archive Storehouse is a late Meiji clay-walled vault in Yokkaichi with white plaster, an eaves band and a washed-aggregate base.
A middle Meiji storehouse in Ise used mainly for pickling, combining a single-storey front room with a two-storey rear room and high north windows. Listed in 2001.
A middle Meiji storehouse in Ise and the largest of the seven on the site, with an unusually deep single-storey front room. Now a gallery, and registered in 2001.