Meiji
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Early Meiji shop and home of Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano: a 210-square-metre merchant front, listed in 2007 and still the brewery's miso and soy sauce outlet.
Late Meiji reception wing southeast of the main house at Shioya Brewery, Suzaka, Nagano, with a garden corridor, an alcove room and an anteroom. Listed in 2007.
Early Meiji two-storey document storehouse at Shioya Brewery, Suzaka, Nagano, with namako tiling, stepped plaster doors and black plaster trim. Listed in 2007.
The Shimaki Akahiko Lodging in Shiojiri, Nagano, an early Meiji wing of a house on the Zenkoji road, has one eight-mat room under a gable with a crest ornament.
A two-storey earthen storehouse from the Kurosu estate in Iida's old samurai quarter, rebuilt in the late Meiji era with reused chestnut posts and lean-tos.
The main gate of Jotokuin in Nagano City, a yakuimon gate of the early Meiji period opening onto the street, has carved beam ends and a wicket door in its side wall.
The main hall of Shorenji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1887, is a True Pure Land temple hall whose short-ridged hipped roof is typical of the old castle town.
The worship hall of Shirahige Shrine in Kinasa, Nagano, a timber hall of 1878 east of the Important Cultural Property main hall, has a showy front of layered gables.
A two-storey English-bond brick store of 1895 on Shinshu University's Nagano campus, built for the prefectural office and restored in 2017 as the Red Brick Hall.
The former cocoon storehouse of Ueda Sericultural College, a late-Meiji brick building with iron-shuttered windows and two kinds of arch, now the faculty museum.
The West Storehouse of the Suyama family in Kiso-Hirasawa, Nagano, an 1899 granary moved in the early Showa era, has namako-kabe tiling and plain plaster above.
A single-arch brick bridge of 1900 on the Shinonoi Line in Chikuma, Nagano. Ashlar abutments and over-fired brickwork survive from Japan's state railway era.
A late-Meiji preparation cellar at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, notable for interior posts built up from bolted planks. Listed as hard to recreate.
The 1909 main house of the Takeshige brewery in Motai, with plastered gables and a passage to the cellars behind. Its walled street front is a famed Nakasendo scene.
A 1909 gate of keyaki timber, two metres wide, that splits a Nagano sake brewery's working approach from the private garden of the main house. Registered in 2000.
A mid-Meiji earthen fermentation cellar of 244 square metres behind the No. 1 cellar at a Nagano brewery, with a Western-style testing room and a koji room upstairs.
A white-plastered timber fence of about 1909, nine bays long with a gentle bend, running from the main house along the east water channel of a Nagano brewery estate.
A two-storey earthen storehouse of 1912 with a set-on roof, black-plastered openings and a moulded cornice, facing a Nagano brewer's drawing room across a garden.
A long, narrow late-Meiji grain shed along the west edge of a Nagano sake brewer's estate, its eight doorways closed by twelve stacked drop-boards, a rare survival.
A small two-storey earthen cellar of about 1912, built to match the document storehouse beside it; the rear gate between them divides a brewer's home from work.