Meiji
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An 1889 main house of former village headmen in Hannan, Osaka, with a formal entrance, reception wing and kitchen wing. Registered 2005. Private home.
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.
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 is the oldest storehouse of a working Katano brewery, a Meiji-era 2-storey dozo with plaster walls and a street-facing gable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.