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The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Chimney in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a late-Meiji brick stack in English bond, the last trace of the shed where rice was steamed.
The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Sake Starter Storehouse in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a narrow board-clad clay store where the family grew its sake yeast starter.
A late-Meiji earthen storehouse on a Sado doctor's estate, its plaster walls boarded against the weather, whose front bay links the rice and miso storehouses.
An early-Meiji timber storehouse on a Sado doctor's estate, a plastered miso store below and a tokonoma room above, joined to the thatched main house by a bay.
The largest store on a Sado doctor's estate: an early-Meiji earthen rice store wrapped in a timber bay under one gabled roof, said to come from a shipping merchant.
A 1909 reception wing west of the Hosaka main house in Joetsu: a hipped-roof single storey with two linked rooms, an alcove and a deep-eaved earthen veranda.
An 1882 three-story plastered storehouse in Nagaoka's brewing quarter, its Taisho top floor framed with a Western king-post truss. Registered in 2013, still in use.
A middle Meiji earthen storehouse in Nagaoka's Settaya brewing quarter, registered in 2013. Black plaster picks out its cornice, and miso still ferments inside.
A plain gabled hut of 1885 northeast of the Ito family's main house in Somi, Niigata, built over a laundry well and now a café with the old well inside.
A long two-storey storehouse of 1887 on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, joined to the main house by corridors, with white plaster walls and upper-floor doors.
The 1889 reception hall of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata: 287 square metres of tatami rooms with few posts, opening onto a pond garden famed for autumn colour.
An 18-metre work shed of 1883 north of the Ito family's main house in Somi, Niigata, built to saw timber for the mansion and now used as the museum shop.
A triangular study and tea room designed by the head of the Ito family in 1891 at Somi, Niigata, its plan, mats and timbers shaped as triangles and rhombuses.
A former rice store on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with tiled walls and a trussed roof, now the museum's gallery for Chinese, Korean and Japanese art.
The 1887 main house of the Ito landlords at Somi, Niigata: 636 square metres over two storeys, with seven-tier roof beams and a 30-metre cedar purlin, open to view.
A two-storey sukiya-style reception wing of 1889 at the back of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with slender timbers and sand-plaster walls unlike the main house.
The carpenters' workshop of 1883 at the northern edge of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata: a plain tall-posted shed where the mansion's builders worked.
A one-bay gate and 20-metre wall of 1889 at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, dividing the great hall's forecourt from the garden under a curved copper roof.
A two-storey storehouse gate of 1887, about 24 metres long, forming the east front of the Ito landlords' estate at Somi, Niigata, alongside the Gate Storehouse.
A villa of about 1895 in central Niigata, built with oil money and later owned by the Ito landlords: plain weatherboard outside, sukiya rooms facing a garden inside.