Meiji
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The working centre of the former Ogawa sake wholesaler in Ise. A middle Meiji townhouse whose front steps into the street in a hook. Registered in 2001.
A 15 square metre wooden building of the middle Meiji period at the rear of a merchant plot in Ise, with a gently convex pantiled roof. Registered in 2001.
An 1892 sake store closing the western end of three riverside storehouses in Ise, sharing the canopy over its north doorway with its neighbour. Registered in 2001.
An 1892 sake store in Ise, the largest of three along the river, dated by an inscription on its ridge-end tile and raised on a plinth of undressed stone.
Late-Meiji timber inn in Iga-Ueno, Mie, with wings around a courtyard and a principal room under a black-lacquered coffered ceiling painted with phoenixes.
The 1873 storehouse of Eirakukan, a former ryotei in Iga, has local tsuzumi-tsunagi plaster on its west wall and a ridge tile naming the house; now a hotel room.
The 1873 East Building of Eirakukan, a former ryotei in Iga, has two courtyard rooms below and one hall above, with garden verandas and a curved log alcove post.
The 1873 South Building of Eirakukan, a former ryotei in Iga, has bamboo and fan carving in its transoms and a tea room with battens radiating like an umbrella.
The 1873 gate and wall of Eirakukan, a former ryotei in Iga, stand on big stones said to come from Ueno Castle, with cloud-shaped ornament, visible from the street.
An early Meiji townhouse in Nabari's old quarter: bengara lattice front below a low tsushi-nikai upper storey. Registered 2017, private, seen from the street only.
An 1858 earthen-walled brewhouse in Yokkaichi, Mie, registered in 2025. Its brick chimney marks the kamaba, the room where rice is still steamed for sake.
A mid-Meiji storehouse in Yokkaichi, Mie: two parallel ranges built with no wall between them, forming one room. Registered in 2025, still used for brewing.
Built in 1888 as Ueno's police station and a model for police offices across Mie, this registered timber building in Iga reopened in 2026 as a free ceramics gallery.
An 1889 merchant house on Nabari's Hase highway, with a 15.8-metre frontage, plastered loft and lattice window. Registered in 2013, it fronts the Jikon brewery.
A Meiji-era two-storey villa wing in Yokkaichi, Mie, built for spinning magnate Ito Denshichi X. Its east-facing carriage porch survives; registered in 2010.
Early Meiji farmhouse moved to Hattaino, Tsu, in 1897–1906: an east earth floor, a staggered six-room plan and a fine guest room and altar room on the west side.
A c.1905 long house in Tsu, 19 m long and first used to raise silkworms: four rooms off an earth-floored passage and two levels inside, moved here around 1955.
Early Meiji gatehouse moved to the Sugimoto compound in Tsu c.1879: a 2.3 m gateway on the west, a boarded room east, vertical boards in front, clapboard sides.
A c.1893 reception wing joined to the Sugimoto main house in Tsu: eight- and six-mat rooms, a tea room and mizuya, opening east to one garden and north to another.
An 1887 clay-walled rice store in Yokkaichi, Mie, with a plaster band below the eaves, a truss-braced roof and unusual diagonal rub boards inside. Registered 2015.