Meiji
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A large 1870 house in Yokkaichi, Mie, with a formal hip-and-gable porch, sword marks said to date from the 1876 Ise Riot and a telephone room. Registered in 2015.
An 1884 reception wing in Yokkaichi, Mie, with 15- and 10-mat rooms, yakusugi ceilings and openwork transoms of mountains and moon. Registered 2015; open seasonally.
An 1885 gate and wall in Yokkaichi, Mie: a yakuimon gate in 13 meters of plastered, clapboarded wall dividing the forecourt from the shoin garden. Registered 2015.
Road bridge over the Miya River gorge between Odai and Taiki, Mie, its 1905 brick piers on pentagonal bases carrying a 1934 steel Warren truss at an old ferry site.
Early Meiji two-story clay storehouse at the river end of a Nabari merchant house: gable front, stepped fireproof doors, namako walls. Registered 2009; closed now.
Early Meiji townhouse on the Hase Kaido in Nabari, Mie: varied lattices, mushiko windows, udatsu firewalls. Registered 2009; closed for renovation since April 2026.
Early Meiji clay storehouse behind the courtyard of a Nabari merchant house: namako tile walls, offset windows, plastered eaves. Registered 2009; closed since 2026.
Early Meiji gate beside the main house on the Hase Kaido in Nabari, Mie: a tiled wall roof over a board canopy on carved brackets. Registered 2009; seen from road.
The Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Inner Storehouse and Rice Storehouse, built in 1893 in Matsusaka, keeps rice for koji in its west room and koji-making tools in the east.
The Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Koji Chamber in Matsusaka, built around 1893, is a half-sunken fermenting room coated in plaster roof and all, where koji is still made.
The Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Shop and Main House in Matsusaka, rebuilt around 1893, shows a black plaster front with a lattice, a bay window and mushiko-mado slits.
Selling the same pilgrim medicine since 1676, this early Meiji merchant house on Ise's Geku approach keeps its curved gable, ribbed boarding and latticed upper bay.
Attached to the main hall of a Suzuka temple, this small early Meiji shoin was named by the haiku poet Yamaguchi Seishi, who held verse gatherings in its four rooms.
Townhouse of 1868 on the old Tokaido in Ishiyakushi, Suzuka, Mie, where the poet Sasaki Nobutsuna was born in 1872; open since 1970 as part of his memorial museum.
Clay-walled storehouse of 1875 at the birthplace of poet Sasaki Nobutsuna in Ishiyakushi, Suzuka, Mie, part of his memorial museum and the old post-town scene.
This early Meiji retaining wall in Matsusaka, Mie, runs 48 metres in undressed river cobbles, with a recess collecting spring water. Registered in 2013.
An early Meiji house on the Wakayama Kaido in Matsusaka, Mie, this 172-square-metre home of a medicine dealer was listed as a Cultural Property in 2013.
Set on the cobble wall along the east edge of a Matsusaka compound in Mie, this Meiji plastered wall runs 16 metres, its ridge stepping down midway. Listed 2013.
The 1909 Renaissance-style brick museum of the Grand Shrine of Ise, designed by Katayama Tokuma and registered in 1998, with terracotta walls and a dome.
The 1905 agricultural museum of the Grand Shrine of Ise, designed by Katayama Tokuma and registered in 1998, with a Japanese exterior and Western framing.