Meiji
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West of the South Storehouse, the 1877 West Storehouse is a two-storey gabled earthen store for miso, linked on its upper floor to the South Storehouse next door.
Adjoining the Middle Storehouse, the 1877 East Storehouse is the largest of the group: a long soy-sauce brewing warehouse with shuttered windows on its south gable.
On the southern edge of the grounds, the 1877 South Storehouse is a low earthen store whose eastern half held the koji room where the brewery's fermentation once began.
The oldest building on the Miyazawa estate in Azumino: an 1885 two-story storehouse with a plastered canopy and namako-kabe tiling, tortoise-shell at the front only.
Standing in the wooded grounds of Karuizawa Taliesin beside Lake Shiozawa in Nagano Prefecture, the Meiji 44 Hall is a registered National Tangible Cultural Property—a careful relocation and restoration of the original Karuizawa Post Office built in 1911. Designed by railway carpenter Koda Ryokichi, this two-story wooden Western-style building features a strictly symmetrical facade, hipped tile roof, and the iconic mint-green German-style lap siding restored to its original Meiji-era color. Today it houses Restaurant Sonett on the ground floor and the Fukazawa Koko Wild Flower Museum on the second floor.
The Yamada Ryokan New Storehouse, a 1909 store on a stone wall at the inn entrance, names its builder on the ridge beam and has served as a museum since 1979.
The Yamada Ryokan Front Storehouse, an 1885 earthen store at Otari Onsen, wraps even its pent-roof posts in white plaster; registered in 2001 as a model of form.
Built about 1887 for a family of doctors, this Nagano farmhouse tucks an examination room and waiting room off its earth floor beneath a silkworm-style vented ridge.
An earthen storehouse of about 1887 on a Nagano doctor's estate, with a lean-to extended into a rear gate and an iron canopy on its east side. Registered 2001.
This 25-meter gatehouse of about 1887 closes the south side of a Nagano doctor's estate. Its roof steps down midway and its heavy doors open inward. Registered 2001.
An 18-meter roofed earthen wall of about 1887 around the garden of a Nagano doctor's estate, plastered on one face and post-and-panel on the other. Registered 2001.
A 14-square-meter storehouse of about 1887 on a Nagano doctor's estate, with an earth-floored ground level for miso and carefully framed openings. Registered 2001.