Meiji
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A herdboy rides his ox home through falling snow in Li Di's Returning Herd in Snow, a Southern Song National Treasure kept at Nara's Yamato Bunkakan museum.
Behind the worship hall of Omiwa Shrine stands the Mitsu Torii, three torii joined as one. Revered in place of a sanctuary, the 1883 gate marks the sacred mountain.
Completed in 1894 by Katayama Tokuma, this brick hall in Nara Park became an Important Cultural Property in 1969. It closes for renovation in September 2026.
Designed by Sekino Tadashi in 1902, this Important Cultural Property in Nara Park echoes the Byodo-in Phoenix Hall, mixing Japanese, Western, and Islamic design.
This late Meiji wooden building at Akahadayama Motogama in Nara links house and kilns, with a latticed former workshop, a corner tea room, and a truss upstairs.
A late Meiji rice storehouse on the east edge of the Iioka homestead in Uda, Nara: 9.9 by 4.0 metres, dressed-stone base, namako doorway, plain plaster inside.
An early Meiji bracket gate in Yoshino, Nara, built for a detached guest wing that no longer stands, with curved rafters and notched weatherboarding beside it.
The largest building at the Ota brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga. This early-Meiji fermentation store on a stone base shows a long western wall and joins the south storehouse.
A large early-Meiji brewing storehouse at the Ota brewery in Tatsuta, Ikaruga. It links the living and brewing blocks and anchors the storehouses that shape the town.
Built in early Meiji as a midwife's home, this Naramachi townhouse keeps three rooms lined beside an earth-floored passage under a low tiled roof. Registered 2014.
The oldest of seven storehouses at the Okahashi estate in Kashihara, Nara, built about 1887 for tableware, with namako walls, a raised roof and a copper hood.
A 1906 two-storey storehouse in Yagi, Kashihara, built into a merchant house: white plaster outside, hinoki cypress panelling and a teak winding staircase within.
At the back of a Yagi merchant house in Kashihara, a 1906 earthen-walled building altered c.1936: mostly storage, with a plain retirement room upstairs.
A 1906 merchant town house on the Shimotsumichi in Yagi, Kashihara: a low attic-storey shop front with lattice and white plaster, and a full two-storey home behind.
A single-room annex of 1906 at the heart of a Yagi merchant house in Kashihara: eight tatami mats, an alcove, and a board room serving as the storehouse anteroom.
A 1906 shed built into a 56-meter earthen wall at the back of a Yagi merchant house in Kashihara, with open roofed bays along it once used for firewood and ash.
A 1906 gabled corridor in Yagi, Kashihara, joining main house and annex: an open walk on the courtyard, a sukiya-style dressing room and a round-windowed bath.
A mid-Meiji two-storey plaster storehouse jutting toward the ancient Shimotsumichi road in Yagi, Kashihara, with namako tile walls and a granite base. Listed 2009.
A mid-Meiji guest gate beside the main house of a Yagi townhouse estate in Kashihara: lattice door with wicket, board doors, copper canopy. Listed 2009.
A large mid-Meiji townhouse on the ancient Shimotsumichi road in Yagi, Kashihara, with double deep eaves, projecting lattices and slit windows. Registered in 2009.