Meiji
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Standing before the main house at Imai in Okaya, this Meiji inner gate is 2.1 metres wide, roofed in copper and joined by plastered walls to house and front gate.
The No. 5 check dam on the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, a dry-stone dam of 1887, 18 by 7.8 metres, is one of the Home Ministry dams that tamed the basin.
The Ushibuse River No. 3 Check Dam in Matsumoto, built by the Home Ministry in 1886, is a dry-stone sabo dam 8.2 metres high, laid with boulders at a gentle slope.
Built by the Home Ministry in 1886, the Ushibuse River No. 2 Check Dam in Matsumoto is a dry-stone sabo dam whose rounded crest blends into its wooded valley.
The Ushibuse River No. 4 Check Dam in Matsumoto, built by the Home Ministry in 1887, is the uppermost of its dry-stone sabo dams, set where two streams meet.
An early Meiji plastered storehouse in Okaya, Nagano, northernmost of three kura beside the Katakura main house, with a detached gabled roof and a notable doorway.
The smallest Katakura storehouse in Okaya, Nagano: an early Meiji miso store with a trapezoid plan, an earth floor inside and a deep eave sheltering a work area.
An early Meiji store for everyday tableware at the Katakura homestead in Okaya, Nagano, widest of three kura, angled to follow a bending lane under a lower roof.
On the west edge of the Ozawa compound in Matsumoto's Hofukuji town, this 1908 storehouse shows rafter shapes through its eave plaster, its plan shaped wholly by storage.
Built in 1905 at the southern edge of the old post town of Ono in Tatsuno, Nagano, this timber village hall holds a tatami-floored assembly chamber upstairs.
The Inner Storehouse of the Former Koshi Family Residence in Suzaka, Nagano, is a late Meiji kura with heavy doors, rough plaster walls and a link to the main house.
The main house of the Former Koshi Family Residence in Suzaka, Nagano, a white-plastered Meiji home of a silk family, has a 36-mat reception suite open free.
The Outer Storehouse of the Former Koshi Family Residence in Suzaka, Nagano, is a late Meiji kura with white plaster walls, an iron-clad base and barred windows.
The early Meiji storehouse of Kumeya, the wakihonjin of Komoro on the Hokkoku Kaido, has white plaster walls and now serves as a two-floor guest room.
An early Meiji storehouse on an Ueda silkworm-egg estate whose walls are stacked squared timbers hidden under white plaster, built to guard the family's papers.
Built in 1890 at the heart of an Ueda silkworm-egg estate, this plastered rearing house keeps its fire furnaces, leaf cellar and slatted ceiling. Registered 2024.
A small Meiji silkworm room joined to the north of Silkworm Room No. 1 on an Ueda egg-producing estate, with plaster walls, board skirting and an open roof frame.
An early Meiji storehouse on an Ueda silkworm-egg estate that kept miso below and tools above, its loft showing rare notched rafters and overlapping roof boards.
A stout Meiji-era gate, moved to this Ueda silkworm-egg estate in 1904, with frog-leg brackets, double rafters and scars from wartime metal drives. Registered 2024.
The largest building on an Ueda silkworm-egg estate: a 1890 rearing house topped by a full-length vent roof, with a furnace modeled on an 1887 government design.