Meiji
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The Enomoto Family Residence Annex in Abiko, Chiba, is a mid-Meiji reception wing with a writing bay, crane and turtle fittings and a carved waterbird transom.
The Oya Ryokan in Otaki, Chiba, an inn of about 1885 beside the approach to Isumi Shrine, bears its name in plaster and once lodged the poet Masaoka Shiki.
Obara Family Residence Front Gate, Tateyama, Chiba: a mid-Meiji yakuimon gate with massive posts, a gently swelling gabled roof and tiles bearing the family crest.
Kaunkaku, a two-storey hall of about 1900 at Katori Shrine in Chiba used for gatherings and ritual feasts, has a karahafu entrance and blends into the precinct.
A late Meiji house on the Tokyo Bay shore in Futtsu, first a doctor's home in Kururi castle town, moved twice and settled here by a fishing master in early Taisho.
A late Meiji salt merchant's house on the old Gyotoku Kaido in Ichikawa, with a gently swelling porch roof flanked by copper-roofed lattice bays and fine joinery.
A late Meiji brick wall around a salt merchant's lot in Ichikawa: 34 meters long, one brick thick in Flemish bond, braced by buttresses, topped with a brick coping.
A hipped-roof house of 1900 in Torami, Ichinomiya, Chiba, with a dragon carved over the writing alcove and a pine and hawk over the partition. Registered in 2017.
An early Meiji gatehouse on the south side of the Akiba estate in Torami, Ichinomiya, Chiba, with curved adze-dressed beams and bracketed eaves. Registered in 2017.
Late-Meiji reception wing behind a Sakura kimono shop: a 6-mat main room with alcove and shelves, grey plaster walls and wide ceiling boards. Registered in 2019.
A mid-Meiji kimono shop on Shinmachi Street in Sakura, with a hipped front roof, deep lean-to and earth-floored shop room. Registered in 2019; now a restaurant.
An 1892 two-storey earthen storehouse behind a Sakura kimono shop, with finely stepped kakegonuri shutters and plaster-backed ridge tiles. Registered in 2019.
The Former Saito Family Residence Inari Shrine is a tiny mid-Meiji shrine in Ichinomiya, Chiba, carved with lions, clouds, waves and a dragon signed by its maker.
The Former Saito Family Residence Main House in Ichinomiya, Chiba, is a c.1897 single-storey home behind the family shop, with three tatami rooms facing a garden.
The Former Saito Family Residence Main House in Matsudo, Chiba, is a thatched farmhouse of 1901 set by a bamboo grove, open free from Tuesday to Saturday.
The Former Saito Family Residence Storehouse in Ichinomiya, Chiba, is a mid-Meiji kura with beams in three tiers, the only Saito building listed as a model.
The Former Saito Family Residence Shop Storehouse is a two-storey plastered shop of mid-Meiji Ichinomiya with triple windows and a moulded cornice, now a café.
An 1876 thatched house in Narita's Sanrizuka Memorial Park that passed from an American adviser's home to farm office, then to an imperial guesthouse in 1919.
Choshi's Nishihiro main house joins an 1877 merchant hall to a 1937 cypress wing, with the Inubosaki coast carved into its alcove window. Registered in 2018.
A mid-Meiji merchant shop-house on Shinmachi-dori in Sakura, Chiba: a 2-storey gabled machiya whose open front still shows traces of lift-up shutters. Registered.