Meiji
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The Mano Family Residence Detached Room is an 1894 single-story guest pavilion with an 8-mat tatami room behind a lender's main house in Inuyama, registered in 2005.
The 1899 main hall of Manpukuji in Chiryu, Aichi, a grand Shin hall of 603 square metres by master carpenter Onoda Matazo, with a twice-coved ceiling.
An 1889 timber townhouse in the castle town of Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. Projecting eaves, wooden lattice below and iron lattice above. Exterior only.
A single-storey timber wing of the middle Meiji era in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. It runs south from the townhouse passage and holds the bath and lavatory.
An early Meiji merchant house on the old Seto highway in Owariasahi, the Miyake Family Residence Main House hides a six-room farmhouse plan behind a townhouse face.
A two-story earthen-walled storehouse behind the Miyake family's Meiji-era merchant house on the old Seto Kaido, registered in 2022 for the streetscape it preserves.
In Owariasahi, Aichi, the Miyake family's roofed gate and tiled wall front the old Seto highway, marking an early-Meiji dyeing and brewing estate registered in 2022.
The Miyata Residence well house in Inuyama is a late-Meiji Registered Tangible Cultural Property, a small tiled shelter with a pulley hung from its ridge beam.
The Myojin Sluice Gate in Obu, Aichi, a 1901 registered property, carries a canal beneath a river through twin stone arches built in rare Meiji artificial stone.
At Meiji Mura near Inuyama stands a sentry box from the gate of Tokyo's Akasaka Palace, a National Treasure. Built in 1908, it is a Registered Cultural Property.
Built around 1887 in Kobe, now at Meiji-mura, this registered property pairs a stone-look Western front with a Japanese gabled porch and still serves beef hotpot.
Built in 1909 on the Gakushūin grounds in Tokyo and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1964, this registered property links a private Japanese wing to a Western office wing.
Built in 1907, Kanazawa Prison ranged five cell blocks around an octagonal guardhouse so a warder watched every wing. A timber wing survives at Museum Meiji-mura.
Built in 1907 for Kanazawa Prison and rebuilt at Museum Meiji Mura in 1977, this red-brick gate by Yamashita Keijiro survives from the Five Great Meiji Prisons.
An octagonal guardhouse from Kanazawa Prison, one of Meiji's Five Great Prisons. Five cell wings once radiated from this watch point, now preserved at Meiji Mura.
An 1895 earthen storehouse that once brewed sake in Kariya, now at Meiji-mura. Note its drop-away fire boards, torii-shaped roof frame, and registered status.
Built in 1912 to face Kyoto's Nishi Hongan-ji, this wooden police box mimics Western brick in tile. Now at Museum Meiji-mura, its cut corner rewards a close look.
A Kyoto sake dealer's townhouse of 1870, re-erected at Museum Meiji-Mura. Behind its lattice front an open workshop holds a brick steaming furnace and a koji cellar.
A small merchant house built around 1868 at Yaizu, where Lafcadio Hearn rented the upper floor each summer. Re-erected at Museum Meiji-Mura and listed in 2004.
One of the 6 bronze lamp standards from the parapet posts of the Imperial Palace stone bridge in Tokyo, now at Museum Meiji-Mura with its ornament at eye level.