Meiji
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A small thatched teahouse of 22 m² in a merchant compound in Mabicho, Kurashiki. Its west corridor projects out past the boundary wall. Listed in 2025.
A storehouse of 69 m² joined to its neighbour at the eastern edge of a merchant compound in Mabicho, Kurashiki, with lattice plaster on its west face. Listed 2025.
The Soja City Machikado Local History Museum in Okayama, the former police station of 1910 with an octagonal corner tower, is open free as a local museum.
Built around 1885 on the old Inaba Kaido post road in Mimasaka, this brewer's house pairs a shop room with nine rooms and a formal entrance. Registered in 2017.
Dated to 1885, this single-storey sake hall in Mimasaka, Okayama, stands wall to wall with the brewing storehouse, with a rice-steaming room built on its west side.
An earthen storehouse of around 1885 at the south edge of a working sake brewery in Mimasaka, Okayama, white plaster above a tile band, with boarded lower walls.
A mid-Meiji storehouse at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama, with dragon-and-tiger plaster relief inside its shutters. The only one of nine registered as hard to reproduce.
A mid-Meiji guest wing at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama: an eight-mat room with alcove and writing bay, and a formal entrance aligned with the front gate. Not open.
A mid-Meiji yakuimon gate with a carved gable ornament and 25 meters of plastered wall, clapboarded outside and lined with boat planks within, at Tsuji Honten.
The largest storehouse at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama: a Meiji-period earthen building grown around an older lean-to, its street gable crossed by 2 drip ledges.
A mid-Meiji sake storehouse at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama with a massive stacked-beam roof frame, now the brewery shop and restaurant, open during business hours.
A mid-Meiji household shrine in the Tsuji Honten garden, Katsuyama: only 0.2 square meters, yet with a karahafu porch, bracket sets, carved struts, double rafters.
Toshoji Temple Shoin Getsusen-in in Yakage, Okayama, is an early Meiji head priest's residence with a tiled roof, lattice gables and its own wall. Registered 2011.
Toshoji Temple Waterway Stone Walls and Stone Bridge in Yakage, Okayama, is a late Meiji stone-lined channel with a granite bridge before the gate. Registered 2011.
Toshoji Temple Gate and Earthen Walls in Yakage, Okayama, are early Meiji plastered walls 75 m long beside the Sanmon and around the priest's house. Registered 2011.
Nishie Family Residence Retirement Quarters, Takahashi: an early Meiji sukiya annex behind the main house, the only one of nine registered as a model of design.
Former stable and menservants' quarters of the Nishie Family Residence, Takahashi: a long early Meiji row of stalls and rooms closing the forecourt. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Book Storehouse, Takahashi: a 23 m² early Meiji storehouse with stepped rain eaves and namako tiling beside the granary. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Tool Storehouse, Takahashi: a large early Meiji store with two doors and namako-tiled gables on the estate's west side. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Miso Storehouse, Takahashi: the smallest of nine, an early Meiji store with a bracket canopy and a butterfly crest. Registered 2003.