Meiji

Inside the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji roofed wall of about 40 m and its gates screen the large garden from the working lane of storehouses.

Behind the Tanaka kitchen in Suzaka, this early Meiji two-storey kura hides a fine upstairs room, with long windows and metal eave brackets showing Western taste.

On the street side of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Meiji gate pairs an open gateway with a gatekeeper's lodge, its roof carried on curved beams.

Built in 1895 by Suzaka carpenter Harada Torakichi, this two-storey guest hall of prized timber opens onto the Tanaka estate garden in Suzaka, Nagano Prefecture.

At the centre of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, this early Meiji house joins a hipped two-storey living wing to a gabled kitchen wing by an earthen passage.

At the centre of the north row of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this 22.5 m late Meiji storehouse once turned a waterwheel with water led in by a channel.

South of the Reception Hall in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji two-storey pavilion has two upstairs rooms with railed verandas and once stood on the hall's site.

Three early Meiji storehouses joined in a 35-metre row front the street of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano; the middle one has long held the family's hina dolls.

Running 28 m from the brewery to the east edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji kura held farm tools and is named after a lotus pond.

Enclosing the east and northeast of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, these early Meiji walls run 80 m, plastered outside and open inside as bays for storage.

At the southeast corner of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji building shows plaster to the outside and a clay face with wide board doors inside.

On the north edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this small early Meiji kura shows white plaster outside and bare clay inside, beside a gated passage.

Built around 1895 next to the Reception Hall in Suzaka, Nagano, this 20-square-metre bathhouse pairs a bath with a small sitting room under carefully finished eaves.

The Chuo Printing building in Okaya, Nagano, built in 1910 as the head office of the silk firm Katakura-gumi, has artificial-stone pilasters and brick walls.

This three-story wing in Suzaka, Nagano, joins the shop by a covered passage. Its ground-floor reception rooms hold an alcove and writing bay, with bedrooms above.

Built in mid-Meiji Suzaka, Nagano, this two-story kimono shop has a black plastered upper wall, projecting eaves and a lattice window. Registered in 2016.

Nagano Holy Savior Church, a brick church of 1898 registered in 2006, is a fine small medieval-style chapel with a pointed doorway, a rose window and buttresses.

The Nagano Meijo East Barn, a 1907 storehouse at a Chikuma sake brewery, held a miso room and retirement quarters. Unlike its neighbours, it has a Western truss.

The Nagano Meijo Document Storehouse, an early Meiji strongroom at a Chikuma sake brewery, guards family valuables behind black plaster and stepped fireproof doors.

A square Meiji timber building at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino whose roof is split at the ridge: boards weighted with stones on the south, sheet metal on the north.