Meiji

Okinawa · 明治

Browse Okinawa’s cultural heritage from the Meiji period (1868 – 1912). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

44 total Okinawa Meiji Period 1868 – 1912
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Former Nashiro Family Residence Stone Wall
Okinawa 明治
Former Nashiro Family Residence Stone Wall

Built around 1905 on Izena Island, the Former Nashiro Family Residence Stone Wall is a 116 m coral stone enclosure, just over 1.5 m high, with rounded corners.

Former Nashiro Family Residence Main House
Okinawa 明治
Former Nashiro Family Residence Main House

Built in 1905 on Izena Island, the Former Nashiro Family Residence Main House has plastered red tiles, a deep amahaji veranda and a nibanza split into two rooms.

Kinjo Masuharu Family Residence Stone Wall
Okinawa 明治
Kinjo Masuharu Family Residence Stone Wall

A c. 1891 boundary wall of Ryukyu limestone blocks in Makabe, Itoman, 30 m long and 1.7 m high, capped with cut stone and backed by a hedge; registered in 2005.

Kinjo Masuharu Family Residence Well
Okinawa 明治
Kinjo Masuharu Family Residence Well

A c. 1891 dug well in Makabe, Itoman: a round stone shaft about 1.1 m across and 8.6 m deep, cut stone on the drawing side, rubble behind, flanked by two posts.

Kinjo Masuharu Family Residence Main House
Okinawa 明治
Kinjo Masuharu Family Residence Main House

A red-tiled house of c. 1891 in Makabe, Itoman, with an amahaji on two sides, eight-mat front rooms and a veranda over 1.8 m wide; registered in 2005, now an eatery.

Kinjo Masuharu Family Residence Furu (Pigsty Toilet)
Okinawa 明治
Kinjo Masuharu Family Residence Furu (Pigsty Toilet)

A c. 1891 pigsty-cum-toilet in Makabe, Itoman: two roofless Ryukyu limestone pens, 4.1 by 3.1 m and 1.1 m high, built of irregular stones; registered in 2005.

Kubura Family Residence Stone Wall
Okinawa 明治
Kubura Family Residence Stone Wall

The Kubura Family Residence Stone Wall on Yonaguni is a late-Meiji coral limestone wall, 39 m long and 1.3 m high, with big stones at its corner, registered in 2007.

Kubura Family Residence Main House
Okinawa 明治
Kubura Family Residence Main House

The Kubura Family Residence Main House on Yonaguni is a mid-Meiji timber home said to come from Ishigaki, moved in 1940, with four rooms under a hipped tile roof.

Chatan Town Uchinaa-ya Main House (Former Medoruma Family Residence Main House)
Okinawa 明治
Chatan Town Uchinaa-ya Main House (Former Medoruma Family Residence Main House)

Chatan Town Uchinaa-ya Main House is an 1890 Okinawan farmhouse under a hipped red-tile roof, moved here in 2005, with amahaji eaves and rooms open to visitors.

Chatan Town Uchinaa-ya Furu (Former Sakihara Family Residence Furu)
Okinawa 明治
Chatan Town Uchinaa-ya Furu (Former Sakihara Family Residence Furu)

Chatan Town Uchinaa-ya Furu is an early Meiji pigsty and toilet of Ryukyu limestone, with two arched chambers behind two stone pens, moved to the homestead in 2006.

Togei Family Residence Ichitarai
Okinawa 明治
Togei Family Residence Ichitarai

Large stone water basin (ichitarai) of the early Meiji period at the Togei house on Yonaguni Island, carved from sandstone and used to hold water against fire.

Togei Family Residence Well
Okinawa 明治
Togei Family Residence Well

Early Meiji well at the Togei house on Yonaguni Island, cut 13 metres into Ryukyu limestone, with a washing area and small stone basin used for crops and tools.

Tokuyama Family Residence Well
Okinawa 明治
Tokuyama Family Residence Well

An 1894 well beside a house in Ishigaki, Okinawa, with a 1.2-metre limestone curb, a concrete pulley support and a 3-metre washing floor, extended in early Showa.

Tokuyama Family Residence Furiya
Okinawa 明治
Tokuyama Family Residence Furiya

An 1894 stone toilet-and-pigsty behind a house in Ishigaki, Okinawa: limestone and awa-ishi blocks form 3 pens, each still holding its stone feeding trough.

Yaeyama Minzokuen Former Morita Family Residence Main House
Okinawa 明治
Yaeyama Minzokuen Former Morita Family Residence Main House

A 1909 shizoku house moved to Ishigaki in 1984: two rows of rooms, a porch jutting past deep eaves and a dated ridge-beam inscription. Why registered; how to visit.

Ryukyu Mura Former Shimabukuro Family Residence Main House
Okinawa 明治
Ryukyu Mura Former Shimabukuro Family Residence Main House

An 1887 house of 145 sq m at Ryukyu Mura in Onna, Okinawa, listed in 2007. Amahaji eaves on inumaki posts wrap all four sides of the largest house in the park.

Ryukyu Mura Former Shimabukuro Family Residence Elevated Granary
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Ryukyu Mura Former Shimabukuro Family Residence Elevated Granary

An 1887 raised granary at Ryukyu Mura in Onna, Okinawa, listed in 2007. Four posts carry a floor 2.3 m up that overhangs them, a form close to Amami granaries.

Ryukyu Mura Former Tamanaha Family Residence Main House
Okinawa 明治
Ryukyu Mura Former Tamanaha Family Residence Main House

An 1891 house of 91 sq m at Ryukyu Mura in Onna, Okinawa, listed in 2007. The plan of an ordinary early Meiji dwelling survives here without rearrangement.

Ryukyu Mura Former Nishiishigaki Family Residence Main House
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Ryukyu Mura Former Nishiishigaki Family Residence Main House

A late Meiji house of 61 sq m at Ryukyu Mura in Onna, Okinawa, listed in 2007. The smallest house in the park, its partitions removed to open it on every side.

Ryukyu Mura Former Higa Family Residence Main House
Okinawa 明治
Ryukyu Mura Former Higa Family Residence Main House

An 1877 house of 79 sq m at Ryukyu Mura in Onna, Okinawa, listed in 2007. The alcove in its first formal room was built to enshrine a sacred stone, not for display.