Meiji
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A Meiji guest wing at the Nagatani-en pottery in Iga, with two eight-mat rooms and formal alcove fittings, linking the thatched main house to the Taisho villa.
In Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, an earthen shop storehouse joins a timber kuramae whose upper floor holds a sukiya tea room, giving a watchtower profile. Registered 2013.
A wooden single-storey house in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, grown in three Meiji phases. Its west gable is plain, its east end hipped-and-gabled. Registered in 2013.
The smallest of four registered buildings in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, at 8.5 square metres. A cobble base, board and plaster band shape its corner view. Listed 2013.
A late Meiji timber reception room with an attached earthen storehouse in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie. It ends a five-building frontage of plaster and board. Listed 2013.
Fukuoka Soy Sauce Store in Iga, Mie: a working brewery of 1904 that still presses soy sauce with a giraffe press and cedar vats. Tours are offered all year.
A symmetrical Western-style annex of 1910 built by a forestry family in Kihoku, Mie, registered in 2004 and used as a local history museum.
An early Meiji guest pavilion behind a Nabari townhouse: a plain ground floor under exposed joists and an upper room with a writing alcove and carved transoms.
A late Meiji hip-roofed building in Komono, Mie, with fish-scale shingle walls and rounded plaster eaves; inside, a waiting room, consulting room and X-ray room.
A Meiji tea house in Komono, Mie, made to the taste of tea master Yoshida Jokei, moved in 1952 and 1968, with a cave-like alcove and crawl-in door. Registered 2020.
Barely 19 square meters, Ryokan Kunrakuso's late-Meiji storehouse is a copper-clad dozo whose board skirting and sea-cucumber plaster join it to the street wall.
Ryokan Kunrakuso's late-Meiji main building, in old Kuwamachi, Iga-Ueno, holds eleven tatami guest rooms with tokonoma, carved transoms and a gazebo-style hall ceiling.
Ryokan Kunrakuso's gate and wall form the street face of a late-Meiji Iga-Ueno inn: a 12-meter wall, 3.3 meters high, a tiled gate, and a black-plastered upper line.