Meiji
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Detached room of about 1907 at the Baiso villa in Kojima, Kurashiki: 2-mat and 6-mat sencha-style rooms with plum-blossom, half-moon and flame windows.
Annex at Baiso in Kojima, Kurashiki: an early Meiji building moved here around 1907, with thatched 8- and 6-mat rooms and log rafters fanned under the eaves.
Main house of the Baiso villa in Kojima, Kurashiki, about 1907: a thatched wing with a carriage porch, sencha tea room, round window and wave-pattern transoms.
The Hayashibara Museum of Art Central Storehouse, early Meiji, is valued for its walls: namako tiling at the base, L-shaped corner tiles and a band with drip tiles.
The Hayashibara Museum of Art West Storehouse (1881) is the largest of three, reworked inside when moved in about 1909, with namako tiling at base, corners and band.
The Hayashibara Museum of Art East Storehouse is a small early Meiji storehouse that long held the Ikeda domain archive, with diagonally laid tiles at its base.
Circular reservoir of 1905 on Mount Handa, Okayama, 21 metres across, with two concentric inner walls topped by brick arches under concrete vaults. A rare design.
Timber office of 1905 below the No. 1 reservoir on Mount Handa, Okayama: hipped and airy, with yoraku pendants at the eaves and vent grilles based on the city crest.
Hexagonal brick meter house of 1905 on Mount Handa, Okayama, which metered water sent to the city, with a keystone pediment and granite-framed round windows.
Circular reservoir of 1905 beside the No. 1 basin on Mount Handa, Okayama, with a brick-faced concrete wall, wall vents and a central ventilation tower on top.
A Meiji brewer's house in Ushimado, Okayama, registered in 2007: projecting lattices, namako-kabe and black plaster under a tiled hip-and-gable roof. Exterior only.
Early Meiji gatehouse of the Himei doctors' estate in Asakuchi, Okayama: plastered walls, lattice windows and an offset gabled roof on a stone wall. Registered 2015.
Mid-Meiji retaining walls and a stone fence at the Akibagu of Hofukuji, Soja: 3.0 m walls in 3 masonry styles line a long stairway up to the shrine. Registered 2009.
Five identical stone shrines of 1892 in a row on a long stone platform behind the Akibagu sanctuary at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama. Registered in April 2009.
A minimal purification pavilion of 1894 at the Akibagu of Hofukuji, Soja: stone posts, timber arms and a gabled roof over a stone basin cut with an ogee-arched base.
The mid-Meiji worship hall and connecting hall of the Akibagu at Hofukuji, Soja: a 5-bay hall with stacked gables and a rear wing of ceremony and altar rooms.
A mid-Meiji shrine sanctuary at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: a single bay square, just 6.1 square meters, with bracket sets and cloud-dragon carvings. Registered 2009.
The late-Meiji two-story Main Gate of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, facing east before the Buddha Hall: a single-bay gate with bracket sets and a coffered ceiling.
A mid-Meiji study hall joined to the abbot's quarters of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, whose 4.5-mat room has an alcove beam of natural wood. Registered in 2009.
An 1893 two-story storehouse in the Manabe home's northwest corner on Manabeshima, with namako tiling and tiles set flat or upright by position. Registered 2006.