Meiji

Built in 1874, this is the oldest registered building at Chihaya Shrine, Osaka, and served as its main hall until 1928. Chrysanthemum and wave carvings.

A 55-metre brick culvert with a horseshoe barrel, drawing Yamato River water into the Nagase since the 1880s. Registered in 2001 and still irrigating 226 hectares.

Tsuji Family Residence Living Room, a late-Meiji tatami room in Osakasayama, sits lower than the two earthen storehouses flanking it on the estate's north edge.

Tsuji Family Residence Rice Storehouse, an 1870 earthen kura in Osakasayama, has a set-on roof, two lean-tos and a round window facing the fields. Private home.

Tsuji Family Residence Partition Wall, a gated 13-metre Meiji wall in Osakasayama, splits the forecourt of the main house from the garden of its formal room.

Tsuji Family Residence Main House, a thatched yamato-mune farmhouse of 1879 in Osakasayama, pairs a reed roof with tiled wings. Private home; registered in 2006.

Tsuji Family Residence High Wall runs about 42 metres around the west of a Meiji estate in Osakasayama, on cut stone, with family-crest tiles and a Hotei figure.

Tsuji Family Residence Nagayamon Gate, a Meiji gatehouse in Osakasayama, sets a hipped tile roof on the gate and a taller gabled barn beside it. Roadside view only.

Tsuji Family Residence Main Storehouse, a 2-storey earthen kura of 1870 in Osakasayama, is plastered up to its eaves and linked to the house by a corridor. Private.

This early Meiji building east of the main house in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, holds two 8-mat rooms and a former hearth room. An 1835 plan helps date it.

This mid-Meiji timber shed in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, doubles as the estate's street wall. Its north side is open; double doors let long logs in.

At the end of a row of storehouses on a Matsubara headman's estate, this early Meiji store kept the household's ceramics on shelves along all four walls.

On the north edge of a Matsubara headman's estate, this Meiji gate and archive storehouse shows black plaster and salvaged boat planks to the street under one roof.

A 2-story storehouse of 1909 at a former cotton merchant's house in Yao, Osaka: 69 sq m, doors at each end under an open lean-to, now an event space. Listed 2019.

The 1902 front gate of an Osaka acupuncture compound, a gabled roof rising from a tall wall with a carved pendant beneath it. Listed in 2019 as a model of design.

Built in 1902 to receive guests at an Osaka acupuncture house, with exposed posts to the east and a sealed storehouse wall facing the street. Registered in 2019.

Built in 1910 as the dwelling of an Osaka acupuncture family, with plaster carried over the eaves, a barred window and a wing for patient rooms. Listed in 2019.

A small 1910 storehouse in an Osaka acupuncture compound, its ridge turned east to west and its plastered eaves projecting well beyond the wall. Registered in 2019.

An 1902 storehouse in an Osaka acupuncture compound, its white plaster carried over the eaves and banded above a skirt of charred cedar boarding. Registered in 2019.

The Hiroumi Family Residence New Storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, is a late-Meiji storehouse that keeps the ridge-beam roof framing of the older Edo storehouses nearby.