Meiji
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An early Meiji wooden gate before the Manabe main house on Manabeshima: 3.2 m wide, very shallow, once missing its northeast post, with a colored-earth front wall.
Dated by its ridge tag to 1870, this hip-and-gable island house on Manabeshima, Kasaoka, keeps an earth-floored doma to the east and a formal room facing the street.
Built in 1874 in the corner of an old island homestead on Manabeshima, Kasaoka, this plastered warehouse and barn held grain paid as tax and the household firewood.
Marumoto Family Residence Reception Wing, Okayama: a mid-Meiji guest room of 61 square metres amid brewery stores, its roof hip-and-gable at one end only.
Built in 1872 in Wake, Okayama, this attic-storey house shows an early local two-tier roof with namako-kabe plaster and log-carried eaves. Registered 1999; private.
Mizote Family Residence No. 2 Storehouse in Hayashima is a 1904 strongroom with diagonal tile facing, glass cabinets for tableware and scrolls, and planed timbers.
Two of four slow sand filter beds built for Okayama's waterworks in 1905, each about 34 meters square, with concrete-block walls and granite rims. Registered 2005.
Okayama's 1904 brick pump house at the Mino Water Purification Plant, with granite trim, arched windows, a timber porch and an octagonal chimney. Now a water museum.
The Mino Water Purification Plant No. 1 Intake on the Asahi River pairs a 1905 concrete intake with a 1926 one in a steep stone embankment. Registered in 2005.
The Myokyoji Asahi Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a south-facing shrine of 1909 with four-stepped brackets and boldly cut elephants, lions and clouds.
The Myokyoji Enbiki Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a plain one-bay shrine of 1888 named for a god of good relationships, one of the oldest of its kind.
The Myokyoji Gosha Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is an 1896 cypress-bark shrine five bays wide, the only one of its size among the 77 subsidiary shrines.
The Myokyoji Suehiro Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a small, sober shrine of 1879 beside the Kyooden, one of the oldest buildings on the temple's list.
The Myokyoji Seishoko Hall at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a small shrine of 1909 to the warlord Kato Kiyomasa, its eaves and veranda thick with brackets and dragons.
The Myokyoji Drum Tower and Corridor at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a late Meiji passage leading north from the guest hall to a tall pyramid-roofed drum tower.
The Myokyoji Higuruma Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a 1908 shrine rich in carving, with dragon tail rafters, a dragon beam and lion side screens.
The Myokyoji Hideyoshi Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is the oldest registered subsidiary shrine, a tiny 1870 shrine made with care and carved sparingly.
The Myokyoji Hokokaku at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a hall of 1909 whose rear juts over the road on a tall brick base with an arch, a rare mix of brick and timber.
The Myokyoji Main Hall at Saijo Inari in Okayama is a double-roofed Buddhist hall of 1882, built by a Nagoya master carpenter in Zen style for the Nichiren sect.
The Myokyoji Reioden Kyooden Hall at Saijo Inari in Okayama is an 1897 cypress-bark hall before the 1741 sanctuary, built with care by Aoyama Choshichi.