Meiji
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A 211-metre timber wall of about 1887 enclosing the Ito landlords' estate at Somi, Niigata, with battened boarding, slatted windows and a surviving moat outside.
A single-storey store of 1885 on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, built between two workshops to hold the carpenters' tools while the mansion was under construction.
A 28-metre miso store of 1887 at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, whose tall core and twin lean-tos once sheltered dozens of barrels and later a dining hall.
A two-storey gate and storehouse of 1887 at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata: a three-bay gateway with inward doors, lacquerware stored within, now the ticket office.
A small bathhouse of 1889 beside the great hall of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with a tatami rest room, woven ajiro panels and bamboo window lattices.
The bell tower of Honkoji in Sado, Niigata, an open one-bay belfry of 1886 moved here in 1973, stands on a base with inward-leaning posts and double rafters.
The main entrance of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built around 1895 to link the guest hall and kuri, has a cusped gable with three pendants that anchors the grounds.
The guest hall of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built in 1895, has a coffered inner hall and outer halls arranged as a broad, open space with very few interior posts.
The priests' quarters of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built in 1895, have a large hearth room where a pair of pillars recut from the former main hall still stands.
The Daishoin of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built around 1899 and linked to the guest hall by an arched bridge, has calm audience rooms with snow-country verandas.
The main hall of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, head temple of a Hokke school branch, was built in 1903 by carpenters from Toyama and is richly decorated with carvings.
Built just after Murakami's 1892 fire by carpenter Inagaki Gentaro, this main house, brewery and koji room show a 9.5-ken west gable beside the 1934 street store.
A 2-storey tool storehouse of about 1892 behind a Murakami sake shop, with a tall boarded base and exposed-post upper wall, said bought in 1909 with brewing gear.
The 1909 home of the Mori doctors in Mano, Sado, rebuilt from an older house and turned gable-end on, keeping the open void over the living room of Sado farmhouses.
A large mid-Meiji timber barn at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado, 12 metres long with a side gate built into its west wall, older than the 1909 main house.
A 12 square metre early Meiji earthen storehouse at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado, older than the main house and walled in mortar and sheet iron.
The Morohashi Family Residence Main House in Raiden, Nagaoka, is a large 1878 chumon-zukuri farmhouse with its entrance and stable set in a projecting front wing.
The Morohashi Family Residence Storehouse of 1905 in Niigata City holds a rice store and a storeroom behind walls of exposed posts topped by a white plaster cornice.
The Rengebuji Temple Guest Hall on Sado, built in 1909 after a flood, is the largest building in the precinct, eight rooms wrapped by a wide L-shaped veranda.
The Rengebuji Temple Jizo Hall on Sado, built in 1893, is the main hall of the sub-temple Hoshakuin and the first stop on the old Sado Shikoku pilgrimage route.