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