Meiji
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An 1902 brick book store at Okayama Asahi High School, the elder of two fireproof towers, banded with cornices and iron-grilled windows. It survived the 1945 raid.
Built in 1909 as a compost shed for Okayama's agricultural school, this small brick building carries a thatched roof on timber trusses. Registered in 2007.
Built in 1911 as the guardhouse of the Imperial Army's 17th Division headquarters, this timber building is now a free exhibition room on Okayama University's campus.
An 1887 police station in Ushimado, Setouchi, with a pediment, varied Western windows and faux-stone corners; now a museum of Korean embassies and festival floats.
An 1897 timber warehouse, 29 meters long, built to collect leaf tobacco under the state monopoly, now a free folk museum of 800-plus rural tools open on weekends.
The former Akasaka school in Akaiwa, Okayama, a schoolhouse of 1910 moved from Kumenan in 1973, has an arched entrance and a round roof window in the Egawa manner.
The guest wing of the former Okanoya Ryokan in Katsuyama, Okayama, a late Meiji inn on the Asahi River, has rooms facing the water and a veranda over the bank.
The gate and wall of the former Okanoya Ryokan in Katsuyama, Okayama, of the late Meiji period, have a delicate diamond-lattice transom and pierced fences.
A 1912 timber county office with an entrance tower and a coffered assembly hall, said to be Okayama's only surviving one, now open free as the Shoo Furusato Museum.
The former Yamada branch of the Ajino salt office in Tamano, Okayama, a monopoly office of 1908 by a river, has varied roofs and bright white clapboard walls.
The archive of the former Yamada salt office in Tamano, Okayama, a brick store of 1908, has a segmental-arched window and stone dressings set off against the brick.
A Meiji stone well with a leaning-post shelter at poet Nagase Kiyoko's birthplace in Akaiwa, Okayama, registered in 2017 and still drawn on for a goemon-buro bath.
An early Meiji townhouse in Akaiwa, Okayama, where poet Nagase Kiyoko was born and wrote; it has a diagonal brick floor and four-room plan, registered in 2017.
An early Meiji thatched house built for the first head of Yamate Village, used as its office from 1902 to 1968 and moved in 1972; note the shikidai entrance.
Kyobashi Water Pipe Bridge carries water mains over the Asahi River in Okayama. Built in 1905 and registered in 2005, it is a riveted five-span Warren truss bridge.
At the back of a Meiji kimono merchant's estate in Kurashiki, this 96 m² two-story storehouse has namako-tile walls on a raised stone base. Registered 1996; a salon.
Beside the rice storehouse of a Meiji merchant estate in Kurashiki, this 19 m² gabled storehouse wears two bands of namako tiles on a stone footing. Registered 1996.
Attached to the reception room of a Meiji merchant house in Kurashiki, this 18 m² kura sits on 3 courses of cut stone under wide namako tiling. Registered 1996.
A 43 m roofed wall on the west edge of a Meiji merchant estate in Kurashiki: board-clad for 3 ken on the street, stone and mortar on the boundary. Registered 1996.
The 1874 house and workshop of textile entrepreneur Isozaki Minki in Kurashiki, Okayama, shows his ingenuity in its ramp and sliding shutters; admission is free.