Meiji

Joined to the rear of the Founder's Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this small Meiji shrine of 24 square metres carries finely carved beam ornament.

Standing at the entrance to the approach at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this Meiji-period gate has no doors and spreads low side walls to left and right.

Raised in 1907 on the stone platform before the Founder's Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this copper-roofed gate carries an undulating eave curve on both faces.

Attached behind the Hall of Worship at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this 1888 hall for the guardian deity sits low beneath a shallow, deeply eaved roof.

Raised in 1886 at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this 183-square-metre hall stacks two gables above its front and has a connecting beam carved in the round as a dragon.

Built about 1888 west of the worship hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this plain copper-roofed building is linked to it by a corridor and has fanned rafters.

Standing beside the Kagura Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this open pavilion of 11 square metres shelters a stone water basin beneath a flat panelled ceiling.

Spanning the Ayuzawa River in Oyama Town, Shizuoka, Morimura Bridge is a 39-metre steel truss completed in 1906 as a private trolley bridge for the Fuji Spinning Company. Designed by the Japanese engineer Akimoto Shigematsu and built at the Tokyo Ishikawajima Shipyard, it is one of the earliest domestically designed truss bridges in Japan and the oldest of its kind in the Chubu region. Listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, its 2020 restoration won the prestigious Tanaka Prize.

The Former Ishikawa Second Middle School in Kanazawa, built in 1899 with spires and pediments, is an Important Cultural Property and now a museum of local life.

A red brick schoolhouse in Kanazawa, completed in 1891, was designed by Yamaguchi Hanroku, who trained in France. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1969.

The Akakura family townhouse in Nanao, Ishikawa, from the late Meiji period before 1912, keeps a classic front with upper-floor lattice and short side fire walls.

A registered Meiji folk house on Kanazawa's wooded northern edge, the Itō Residence raises an azumadachi gable of stacked beams and white-plastered ties above a vast 42-mat earthen hall.

Standing in the wooded precincts of Enuma Shrine in Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture, the Chikkeikan is a graceful two-story timber residence built in 1900 as the country home of Maeda Toshika, the fourteenth and last lord of the Daishōji Domain. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2008, it preserves the formal reception spaces of an upper-rank samurai household—an upper chamber with a tokonoma alcove, a great hall, tatami corridors and a wide veranda—rendered in the refined craftsmanship of late-Meiji carpentry. Together with the neighboring Chōryūtei pavilion (an Important Cultural Property) and the city-designated stroll garden, it offers visitors a quietly atmospheric introduction to the heritage of Kaga's former castle town.

The main house of the Kitaoji Rosanjin Former Residence, an early Meiji townhouse at Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga, was Rosanjin's workplace and is open to visitors.

The storehouse of the Kitaoji Rosanjin Former Residence at Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga, built in 1890, stands at right angles to the main house on the west of the plot.

Built about 1870 for a Kitamae shipping family in Hashitate, Kaga, the 369-square-metre Zorokuen Main House was registered in 1999 as difficult to reproduce.

Built in 1890 behind the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 30-square-metre storehouse carries white plaster above and namako tiling below, unlike its neighbours.

Built in 1890 along the front road at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 38-square-metre store kept miso below and documents above behind almost windowless walls.

Built in 1890 at the north end of the storehouse row at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 26-square-metre store on dressed stone shows the ordinary form of the estate.

Built in 1890 southeast of the main house at Zorokuen in Kaga, this 20-square-metre storehouse held art objects and is the smallest of the estate's 11 listings.