Meiji
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The Hiroumi Family Residence High Wall in Kaizuka, Osaka, is a 21-meter early-Meiji earthen wall, black-plastered on the street side, linking house and barn.
The Hiroumi Family Residence Barn in Kaizuka, Osaka, is a mid-Meiji thick-walled work building on the corner of the lot, once earth-floored throughout.
The Hiroumi Family Residence Annex in Kaizuka, Osaka, is a late-Meiji retirement cottage with a tea room, a tile-and-copper roof and cypress bark on its walls.
Built in late Meiji, the Fujii rice store carries a mokko crest motif on its sliding earthen door and round windows cut through both gable walls, at the plot's rear.
A mid-Meiji okiyane-roofed storehouse in the southeast corner of the Fujino estate in Fujiidera, split into a rice store, a tool store and a strip for long items.
Built in 1893 at the center of a village headman's estate in Fujiidera, this 396 m² farmhouse has a black-plastered front, mushiko windows and a wide doma.
A mid-Meiji udekimon gate 2.2 m wide fronts the Fujino estate in Fujiidera, with a wicket door, an attendants' room and grey wing walls seen from the street.
Built in the mid-Meiji period for Java sparrows and other small birds, this aviary on the Fujino estate in Fujiidera is 11.6 m long, 1.8 m deep and latticed.
This mid-Meiji clay-walled barn, 11.7 m by 4.9 m, stands in the east row of the Fujino estate in Fujiidera, with a canopy to the yard and a passage at its north end.
Dated 1874, the oldest Fujino structure in Fujiidera, this 16.8 m row house puts an east gate, attendants' room and cow stall under one roof, with barred windows.
This mid-Meiji earthen wall, 19.2 m long and 2.3 m high, closes the west side of the Fujino estate: earth 0.4 m thick on a stone base under a tiled coping.
The smallest of the nine Fujino structures in Fujiidera, this 14 m² mid-Meiji shed has bare earth walls, a boarded base and an open half-bay on its north side.
A 1.6 m roji gate with sliding doors and 8 m of ichimonji-tiled wall run from the main house entrance of the Fujino estate, dividing the front and main gardens.
The Fujimoto Family Residence Back Gate is a small early Meiji gate on the south side of an estate in Fujiidera, Osaka, leading to the work yard. Registered in 2006.
The Fujimoto Family Residence Front Gate is an early Meiji gatehouse in Fujiidera, Osaka, on the lane south of Fujiidera temple, finished in board and black plaster.
The Fujimoto Family Residence North Rice Storehouse is an early Meiji storehouse in Fujiidera, Osaka, joined to the main house by the accounts corner.
The Fujimoto Family Residence Tool Storehouse is a two-storey early Meiji storehouse in Fujiidera, Osaka, with a round-and-flat tile roof and white plaster walls.
The Fujimoto Family Residence West Barn is an early Meiji barn at the southwest corner of an estate in Fujiidera, Osaka, its walls merging with its neighbours.
The Fujimoto Family Residence Annex is an early Meiji guest wing in Fujiidera, Osaka, with two six-mat rooms, an alcove and a north veranda. Registered in 2006.
The Fujimoto Family Residence East Barn is a long, narrow early Meiji barn in Fujiidera, Osaka, six bays by one, boarded on the street and open to its work yard.