Meiji
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A 1907 rice storehouse at a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, now holding casks as a soy sauce store; its change of use records how the brewery grew.
The 1892 main house of a soy sauce brewing family in Futtsu, Chiba: a hipped-roof home with an alcove reception room, set among storehouses. Registered 2007.
The 1892 timber shop of a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, with carved eave beams and lift-up shutters still in use. Registered in 2007; open in shop hours.
The largest registered building at a Futtsu soy sauce brewery: an 1872 storehouse whose eight wooden casks include six from the 1834 founding, behind white gables.
A 1907 moromi store at a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, where nine wooden casks hold fermenting mash with no artificial temperature control. Registered in 2007.
An 1892 earthen storehouse beside the shop of a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, with doors on both floors of its gable and an early Western-style truss roof.
A simple late-Meiji bracket-arm gate, 2.1 metres wide, with board fences, closing off the main house garden on a Noda soy brewer's estate. Moved in 1971; not open.
An early-Meiji storehouse outside the walls of a Noda soy brewer's estate, beside the Kotohira Shrine path: tall but single-storey. Visible on the 10th monthly.
An early-Meiji storehouse for festival gear beside Kotohira Shrine, household shrine of a Noda soy brewing family, with an earthen floor. Visible on the 10th monthly
An 1896 open-sided hall for votive plaques at a Noda soy brewer's household shrine, walled only at the back, with a bench inside. Visible on the 10th of each month.
An 1872 water pavilion at a Noda soy brewer's household shrine: just 2.2 square metres, yet built with leaning posts, bracket sets and a carved gable. Open the 10th.
The 1872 sanctuary of a Noda soy brewer's household shrine: a karahafu roof and eaves crowded with Tatekawa-school carving. Open to view on the 10th monthly.
The heart of a Noda soy brewer's estate: a mid-Meiji single-storey house with black-plastered walls and three linked wings, registered in 2018. A private home.
A 1905 reception wing on a Noda soy brewer's estate, with three rooms, openwork transoms and a chandelier, enclosed by 4.4-metre walls. Registered 2018; not open.
Earthen walls of about 1905 guarding a Noda soy brewer's reception wing: 4.4 metres high, mortar-rendered with buttresses outside, plastered inside. Registered 2018.
A late-Meiji garden fence on a Noda soy brewer's estate, 33 metres long, boarded outside and plastered inside, with a ridge gate carved in openwork. Not open.
A brick wall of about 1892 linking two storehouses on a Noda soy brewer's estate: Flemish bond, over 4.2 metres high, with buttresses and a tiled cornice. Not open.
The wall closing the south side of the Yoshino Sake Brewery compound runs 27 metres of local Boshu stone to the east and 25 metres of Oya stone to the west.
This late Meiji brick chimney at Ueno in Katsuura rises 16 metres from a base 1.2 metres square, laid in English bond. It was placed on the register in 2008.
This late Meiji storehouse at Ueno in Katsuura has thick earthen walls, white plaster and a lattice-tiled base. It is 9.1 by 5.5 metres and was registered in 2008.