Meiji

明治

Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Meiji period (1868 – 1912). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

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Fujimoto Family Residence South Rice Storehouse
Osaka 明治
Fujimoto Family Residence South Rice Storehouse

The Fujimoto Family Residence South Rice Storehouse is a two-storey early Meiji storehouse at the corner of an estate in Fujiidera, Osaka, with three rooms.

Matsumiya Family Residence Rice Storehouse
Osaka 明治
Matsumiya Family Residence Rice Storehouse

A small early Meiji rice storehouse in Hirakata, Osaka, with a detached tile roof and lime plaster carried over the eaves, on the north street. Registered 2019.

Matsumiya Family Residence West Storehouse
Osaka 明治
Matsumiya Family Residence West Storehouse

A two-storey Meiji storehouse in Hirakata, Osaka, read nishi-no-kura, with a detached tile roof, white plaster walls and a rising-beam roof frame. Registered 2019.

Matsumura Family Residence Inner Wall
Osaka 明治
Matsumura Family Residence Inner Wall

Early-Meiji wall inside a headman's estate in Habikino, Osaka, dividing two gardens from the formal entrance, with a raised-ridge garden gate and an arched wicket.

Matsumura Family Residence Outer Wall
Osaka 明治
Matsumura Family Residence Outer Wall

Early-Meiji wall about 39 meters long on the south and east edges of a headman's estate in Habikino, Osaka, with exposed posts, stone base, boards and plaster.

Minami Family Residence Front Gate
Osaka 明治
Minami Family Residence Front Gate

An early Meiji yakuimon gate of former village headmen in Hannan, Osaka, set behind a forecourt, with copper-edged eaves. Registered 2005. Seen from the road.

Minami Family Residence Main House
Osaka 明治
Minami Family Residence Main House

An 1889 main house of former village headmen in Hannan, Osaka, with a formal entrance, reception wing and kitchen wing. Registered 2005. Private home.

Minami Family Residence Earthen Wall
Osaka 明治
Minami Family Residence Earthen Wall

An early Meiji clay wall, 77 m in all, on a stone base with a tiled cap, along the south side of the Minami estate in Hannan, Osaka. Registered 2005; street view.

Menzan Atsuya Residence Barn
Osaka 明治
Menzan Atsuya Residence Barn

The barn of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, the oldest of its eight registered structures, built in 1905, its plastered walls and bracketed eaves facing the entrance path.

Yamano Family Residence Sake Brewery 1
Osaka 明治
Yamano Family Residence Sake Brewery 1

Yamano Family Residence Sake Brewery 1 is the oldest storehouse of a working Katano brewery, a Meiji-era 2-storey dozo with plaster walls and a street-facing gable.

Yamano Family Residence Nagayamon Gate
Osaka 明治
Yamano Family Residence Nagayamon Gate

The Yamano Family Residence Nagayamon Gate is an 18-bay Meiji gatehouse moved to Katano in early Showa, with plastered degeta eaves, lattice windows, mushiko-mado.

Yokouchi Family Residence Inner Parlor Wing
Osaka 明治
Yokouchi Family Residence Inner Parlor Wing

An 1897 reception wing of the Yokouchi house in Higashiosaka, moved here in 1930, with a hip-and-gable east end, a hipped west end and a ten-mat room with alcove.

Yokouchi Family Residence Front Gate
Osaka 明治
Yokouchi Family Residence Front Gate

The early Meiji gatehouse of the Yokouchi house in Higashiosaka, with a stepped pantile roof, mouse-grey plaster, barred windows and a sukiya-style room inside.

Yokouchi Family Residence Main House
Osaka 明治
Yokouchi Family Residence Main House

The early Meiji main house of the Yokouchi family in Higashiosaka: a stepped pantile roof, a staggered four-room plan, a shikidai entrance and later sukiya details.

Yokouchi Family Residence Earthen Wall
Osaka 明治
Yokouchi Family Residence Earthen Wall

A late Meiji earthen wall wrapping the Yokouchi house in Higashiosaka for 31 metres, a 0.6-metre-thick plastered wall on rough stone up to 1.9 metres high.

Yokoyama Family Residence Retirement Building
Osaka 明治
Yokoyama Family Residence Retirement Building

East of the main house in Takatsuki, this early Meiji retirement house has a diamond-lattice handrail, an arched veranda panel and a four-square plan with tea room.

Yokoyama Family Residence Gate and Wall
Osaka 明治
Yokoyama Family Residence Gate and Wall

In old Takatsuki castle town, this early Meiji bracket-arm gate, 1.3 m wide, and its 7.3 m wall share one low tiled eave and enclose a retirement house forecourt.

Yoshida Sake Brewery
Osaka 明治
Yoshida Sake Brewery

The storehouse of the Yoshida brewery in Ikeda, Osaka, maker of Midori-ichi sake: a three-story plaster kura of about 1878, crowned by a Shōki roof figure.

Yoshida Sake Brewery Main Building
Osaka 明治
Yoshida Sake Brewery Main Building

The main building of Yoshida Sake Brewery, from about 1878, is a grand merchant townhouse in the old Osaka sake town of Ikeda, with black plaster and fire walls.

Yoshida Sake Brewery Wall
Osaka 明治
Yoshida Sake Brewery Wall

A registered cultural property in Ikeda, Osaka: an 8.8-meter black-plastered wall from around 1878, fronting a sake brewery founded in 1697 on the old Nose Kaidō.