Meiji
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A one-bay ridge gate of about 1910 in Tomi City, Nagano, set back from the wall line and leading into the back garden between the house and the rearing house.
A single-storey building of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, pairing a miso room with a drying room and closing the gap between the storehouse and the row house.
A masonry retaining wall of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, running from the front gate to the west gate in hexagonal courses that carry the fence above.
A small storehouse built for fumigation beside the gate of the former Kobayashi headman's residence near Nagano, registered for its unusual Western-style eaves.
In Motoyama post town on the old Nakasendō, the Kobayashi inn lifts its upper floor on two rare tiers of projecting beams, rebuilt after the 1869 great fire.
A small early-Meiji wooden hall in Nagano City, the Gomyo Family Detached Parlor has a full shoin set and a high hexagonal coffered ceiling. Registered in 2010.
A tiny Meiji archive storehouse on the Gomyō family's Nagano estate, with white-plaster walls and cloud-carved brackets over its east door. Registered 2010.
A small 1897 granary at the center of a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with a single upper window, a pent-roofed gable door and wood floors on both levels.
A mid-Meiji rearing house on a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with a ventilation roof along its whole ridge and windows on both sides of three upstairs rooms.
A late Meiji two-story building on a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with a clay-sealed, plastered room below for disinfecting tools and a rearing room above.
An 1898 storehouse for family papers on a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with a crested ridge tile, a copper-roofed entrance and a tatami room upstairs.
A small late Meiji storehouse for household miso on a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with an earth floor below and clay packed even under its pent roof.
West of the main house in Saku, Nagano: a slender 6.6-by-3.7m earthen storehouse, boarded floor, with a miso room attached beneath an offset roof. Registered 2011.
Squeezed between two neighbours on a stone wall in Saku, Nagano: an earth floor, exposed roof timbers, a built-in rice bin, and a roof with no gable ends. Meiji era.
The smallest of four registered buildings on a Saku farmstead in Nagano: a near-square timber box of 21 square metres, throwing out a lattice and a bay window.
The Shiohara Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Matsumoto is a granary of about 1907, registered in 2004 for its form, with namako walls and a floating roof.
Early Meiji street-front shop of Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano, with a shop below and retirement rooms behind projecting eaves; listed in 2007 with its gate.
Early Meiji grain store at Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano, with long exposed beams and old stock notes on its walls. Listed in 2007, it now hosts piano concerts.
Early Meiji household storehouse east of the main house at Shioya Brewery, Suzaka, Nagano; the smallest of ten listed in 2007, plain but for its carved doorway.
Early Meiji soy sauce storehouse of Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano, with a latticed street gable. Listed in 2007, it still presses mash and is on the free tour.