Meiji
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Built about 1908 to hold food and fodder for the Matsumoto 50th Infantry Regiment, this 36.3-metre brick warehouse in English bond now serves Shinshu University.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Back Gate, Kitchen Miso Storehouse and Office, c.1880, Nakano: a zelkova gate said to come from Iiyama Castle, and an office.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Okuzashiki, mid-Meiji guest rooms in Nakano, Nagano, moved in 1951: a cedar alcove post, flat shoin and verandas facing a garden.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Sake Shop, a mid-Meiji 2-storey building in Nakano, Nagano, sold the family's sake until 1912; its timber frame is left exposed.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Rokkengura and Nikengura Storehouses, a c.1880 grain store in Nakano, Nagano: 26 metres under one roof with three garden doors.
The former Reischauer villa in Karuizawa, Nagano, a late Meiji summer house of August K. Reischauer, is clad in cedar bark with a fireplace of Asama stone.
A late-Meiji two-story storehouse behind the main house of the Kosaka homestead in Nagano City, white plaster over board-clad lower walls. Registered 2019.
A late-Meiji bracket gate on the north side of the Kosaka homestead in Nagano City, tiled over boards with no rafters, with a board sleeve wall. Registered in 2019.
A 58 m late-Meiji tiled earthen wall around the west and north of the Kosaka homestead in Nagano City, linking the rice storehouse and rear warehouse.
The early-Meiji gatehouse of the Kosaka homestead in Nagano City: 127 m², with a deep lintel and double beam over its gateway, joined to the miso storehouse.
A late-Meiji storehouse at the Kosaka homestead's northeast corner in Nagano City, plastered up to the eaves, with no north or east windows and a cut corner.
An early-Meiji storehouse at the Kosaka homestead in Nagano City, joined to the nagayamon gate as one facade, with small upper windows. Registered in 2019.
A timber gate of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano: a three-bay four-legged gate with zelkova door panels, set back from the old highway behind stone walls.
A plastered earthen wall of about 1910 in Tomi City, Nagano, running from the west wall and turning east to meet the rear entrance of the silkworm rearing house.
A two-storey rearing house of about 1910 in Tomi City, Nagano, with three silkworm rooms upstairs, a projecting south veranda and a ventilating monitor roof.
Built about 1906 in Tomi City, Nagano, this two-storey farmhouse rears silkworms upstairs and splits its south front between a lean-to and a beam-carried veranda.
Built in 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, this corner storehouse rises from a hexagonal stone wall, its lower walls faced in flat stone and finished in namako plaster.
An outbuilding of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, 11 bays long, closing the east side of the compound with a long sheltered eave along its western front.
An earthen wall of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, raised on a stone embankment and turning its gable end toward the old highway at the compound's corner.
A two-bay yakuimon gate of about 1901 at the southwest corner of a Tomi City compound in Nagano, set within a castle-style right-angled entry of walls and stone.