Meiji
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The Sho family's material at the Naha City Museum of History, 1,292 items. Other archives burned or were destroyed; what had been kept in Tokyo survived.
The last potter's homestead in Naha's Tsuboya district, with a 22.7m nine-chamber climbing kiln. Designated in 2002; part of the site opens Fri to Sun and holidays.
A red-tiled house of a family of Ryukyu court ship captains on tiny Geruma Island, with its kitchen under the main roof, a hinpun screen and an eave-high stone wall.
A wealthy farming family's walled estate in Kitanakagusuku, Okinawa: main house, guest wing, barn, granary and stone pigpens, designated on reversion day in 1972.
Izena Island homestead of a family said to descend from King Sho En's uncle: a 1906 main house and guest wing in stone walls, designated in 1977, free to visit.
Arakaki Family Residence Stone Wall in Naha is a random-coursed limestone wall of about 1896 enclosing three sides of the plot for 58 metres, finest at its entrance.
Arakaki Family Residence East Pond in Naha is a stone pond of about 1896: a 2.8 by 0.8 metre basin cut into a 7 metre run of limestone walling east of the house.
Arakaki Family Residence Hinpun in Naha is a limestone screen of about 1896 set between house and road, 3.6 metres long and 1.7 metres high with a tapering profile.
Arakaki Family Residence Furu in Naha is a cut-limestone pigsty and toilet of about 1896, 6 metres by 2 metres, in three bays under a row of three stone arches.
Arakaki Family Residence South Pond in Naha is a small pond of about 1896 by the house door, an irregular polygon of natural limestone lined with plaster.
A 1907 Ryukyuan house moved from central Ishigaki in 2008, with four front rooms in a row and a corner entrance under deep eaves. Why it was registered; visiting.
A late-Meiji well in a corner of an Ishigaki farmstead, about 90 cm across and 10 m deep, with a curb of four coral-stone pieces, said to predate the 1911 house.
A single-storey farmhouse of about 1911 in Ishigaki under a hipped red-tiled roof, with four front rooms, back rooms and a big kitchen, built of island timber.
Moved from Izena Island, this late-Meiji house keeps the rare separated-building (bunmunē) form, its kitchen a wing of its own. Now an indigo studio.
One of Okinawa World's largest relocated houses, this late-Meiji home survived the 1945 battle, shell scars on its pillars. Now a bingata workshop.
Built at Shuri from timber of a demolished Naha mansion, this late-Meiji house has an unusual plan with no back rooms. Now a papermaking studio.
A fūru is an old Okinawan privy-and-pigsty. Built of cut Ryukyu limestone, this rare survivor records a rural custom that local hygiene law ended around 1917.
A coral-limestone wall built in 1909 rings the Kamiyama Residence on Kuroshima, running 87.4 meters of dry-laid stone shaped with care at its gate and corners.
A dug well from 1909 at the southwest corner of the Kamiyama Residence on Kuroshima runs about 4.2 meters deep, with a curb cut from local coral limestone.
Built in 1902 and moved to a Nago high school campus in 1965, this 9.4 sq m porch with a curved karahafu gable and Ryukyuan red tiles is a rare Meiji survivor.