Meiji
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A 1909 timber office at Matsusaka Castle ruins with a copper karahafu porch in daibutsuyo style and a Western reading room, used since 1988 as the Oshokaku tea room.
A 1909 four-legged timber gate, 2.7 meters wide, at Matsusaka Castle ruins, with a gabled tile roof, wicket doors and beam ends carved in the daibutsuyo style.
A small 2-storey earthen storehouse of 1909 at Matsusaka Castle ruins, with brick footings and lime-plaster walls under clapboarding, linked to the office.
A tile-roofed timber wall of 1909, 11 meters in 9 bays, running from the society's office to Motoori Norinaga's house at Matsusaka Castle ruins, with lattice above.
A late-Meiji stone wall 8.1 metres high on the Kushida River cliff at the Tanaka compound in Hase, Matsusaka, laid in river cobbles and carrying a guest pavilion.
A 15-metre earthen wall of 1902 linking the Tanaka main house and east storehouse in Hase, Matsusaka, its white plaster on head-sized river cobbles laid diagonally.
An 1900 two-storey barn facing the Tanaka main house across the old Wakayama Kaido in Hase, Matsusaka, with earth floors at both ends and a tall open void inside.
An 1896 townhouse of fine timber on the Wakayama Kaido in Hase, Matsusaka, with deep eaves over lattices, mushiko windows and bays; the family museum opens part.
A 27-metre earthen wall of 1911 beside the Tanaka main house in Hase, Matsusaka, its river-cobble base giving way at the road end to dressed stone and an ogre tile.
A 1905 two-storey storehouse beside the Tanaka main house in Hase, Matsusaka, its road side finished with a stone base, plaster, hooded windows and drip moulding.
A 24-metre earthen wall of 1905 behind the Tanaka east storehouse in Hase, Matsusaka, backing the garden, its river-cobble base built up high along its north half.
An 1883 sukiya-style guest pavilion of the Tanaka family in Hase, Matsusaka, its two wings stepped along a high stone wall and opened to the Kushida River view.
A 27-metre late-Meiji earthen wall on the Tanaka compound in Hase, Matsusaka, its clay face set with old roof tiles and banded with interlocking round tiles.
The Nagai Family Residence (Umeya) Office Building in Kihoku, Mie, is a mid-Meiji office with an earthen entry and a staff rest room with a sink. Registered in 2021.
A Meiji earthen storehouse at the back of the Nagatani-en residence in Iga, with namako-kabe tile work on one face and boarding on another. Registered in 2015.
A small Meiji-era earthen storehouse behind the main house at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, once used for account books and framed with arched roof beams.
The Meiji-era thatched home of the family behind the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, with a tile-edged hipped roof and a ten-mat principal room. Registered in 2015.
A two-story Meiji storehouse beside the thatched main house at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, once a miso store and now the largest gallery on the site.
A two-story Meiji rice store on the lane at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, its posts and beams left visible in white plaster walls; now a gallery open to visitors.
A single-story Meiji building on the lane at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, said to have been a stable, gabled at one end and hipped at the other; now a gallery.