Meiji
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Toyonotsuru Sake Brewery Rice Polishing House and Storehouse in Otaki, Chiba, is an early Meiji building of 114 square metres holding two rooms. Registered in 2011.
An 1891 household Inari shrine on a merchant estate in Ichikawa, Chiba: a tiny nagare-zukuri hall of keyaki with frog-leg struts and gable pendant on a stone base.
A late Meiji merchant house on the Chiba Kaido in Ichikawa. Only the eaves facing the road are sealed in black plaster, beside a brick storehouse on the corner.
A long Meiji warehouse used for brewing miso on an Ichikawa estate in Chiba: two buildings joined into one 21-metre store under a king post truss roof.
An 1893 earthen storehouse linking the main house and annex of a merchant estate in Ichikawa, Chiba. Once plaster and board, now iron-clad, top band intact.
A late Meiji two-storey annex behind a merchant house in Ichikawa, Chiba, with formal eight-mat rooms on both floors, a boat-bottom ceiling and an upstairs veranda.
The stone frontage of a merchant estate on the Chiba Kaido in Ichikawa: granite gateposts for a main gate and a carriage gate, and 29 metres of Boshu stone wall.
A late Meiji brick store on a highway corner in Ichikawa, Chiba: English-bond walls, fret cornice and pediment, and a Japanese tiled roof with plastered ridge ends.
The Nemoto Family Residence North Storehouse in Abiko is a 2-storey storehouse of 1900 with plaster walls, a west lean-to doorway and a free-standing post upstairs.
The Nemoto Family Residence Household Shrine in Abiko is a late-Meiji garden shrine of 0.6 m², with a stone base, 5 wooden steps and a ridge set with tomoe crests.
Built in 1891 to hold grain, this two-story earthen kura survives from a Tsudanuma merchant's estate in Narashino, with battened siding and bold interior beams.
Near Tokyo in Narashino, the Hirose family's 1909 grain warehouse is a Registered Cultural Property built without earthen walls, using densely set, board-clad posts.
In Chonan, central Chiba, a small Meiji storehouse held the Hoshino pharmacy's dispensary. Registered with the shop and gate, it looks much as in 1895.
The Hoshino Family Pharmacy in Chōnan, Chiba, is a Meiji-era black-plastered earthen shop on a former post-town street, still selling medicine after a century.
Built in 1871 by the Edo River, this Noda wharf merchant's house keeps three boat-inn rooms upstairs and a flood-gated brick wall—a rare relic of river trade.
In Noda, a former Edo River shipping family kept a Fudo Myo-o shrine under a square meter, built with the carpentry of a real shrine hall. Exterior view only.
In Noda, Chiba, a brick wall once doubled as flood defense: grooves at its ends held boards to dam the Edo River, fronting a Meiji-era river merchant's home.
A small tiled gate at a river-wharf merchant's house on the Edogawa in Noda, surviving beside a brick flood wall as a rare trace of the river's lost boat trade.
A former post-town hatago lodging house of about 1897 in Kamagaya, Chiba, registered in 2020, whose heavy frame and front shutters recall its original use.
A small but finely finished Meiji reception wing east of the former Maruya hatago in Kamagaya, Chiba, registered in 2020.