Meiji

The Wada Family Residence Main House in Kawachinagano, Osaka, is an early Meiji yamatomune farmhouse with a thatched ridge and tiled end roofs, registered in 2018.

A one-storey rice store of about 1890 at the corner of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, with plastered eaves and a high window, closing the street front. Private.

An 1874 two-storey storehouse at the corner of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, kept low to follow the gate, with a stone base and curved beams inside. Private.

A small, tall 1890 storehouse at the back corner of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, on a high stone base with boat-board walls, linked to the main house. Private.

A 21 m roofed wall of about 1890 at the back of the Ebara estate in Suita, Osaka, with bracketed eaves, boat-board cladding and plaster bands. Private property.

An early-Meiji gate and wall in Toyonaka, Osaka, dividing forecourt from guest garden: a sukiya-style gate with log frames and cedar-bark walls. Registered 2008.

Jozenji Temple Front Gate in Izumisano is an early-Meiji four-legged gate packed with plant and zodiac carvings, registered in 2008 as hard to reproduce today.

Discover Locomotive No. 233 in Kyoto: Japan's oldest surviving domestically mass-produced steam locomotive, built in 1903–1904 and designated an Important Cultural Property in 2016. A milestone of Meiji-era industrial heritage at Kyoto Railway Museum.

The National Treasure celadon vase 'Bansei', fired at Southern Song China's Longquan kilns, passed from an empress to a Kyoto temple before reaching Izumi, Osaka.

Osaka's Kyou Shooku library holds eleven Song-printed volumes of the Shiji jijie, the oldest Shiji commentary, a National Treasure once owned by Naito Konan.

Printed in Southern Song China in 1139, these 17 National Treasure volumes of the Maoshi zhengyi rest at Kyo-U Library in Osaka with Kanazawa Bunko seals.

The Tobiseiji Hanaike at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, is a National Treasure regarded as the finest surviving example of Chinese Yuan-dynasty Longquan celadon with iron-spot decoration. Standing 27.3 cm tall in the elegant yuhuchun form, twenty-one iron spots dance across its jade-green glaze. Discover this masterpiece treasured in Japan for centuries through the Konoike merchants and the famed Ataka Collection.

A herdboy rides his ox home through falling snow in Li Di's Returning Herd in Snow, a Southern Song National Treasure kept at Nara's Yamato Bunkakan museum.

Araki Family Residence Kitchen Storehouse in Kusu, Oita: a 1904 earthen kura whose namako lower walls use ceramic plates, with a hachimaki band and stepped door.

The Inoue Family Residence Barn in Hita, Oita, is an L-shaped 1902 barn of 218 square metres with a cowshed, its plastered roadside wall looking like a gatehouse.

The Inoue Family Residence Miso Storehouse in Hita, Oita, is an 1875 earthen store of 46 square metres by the kitchen, where the family's miso brewing jars survive.

A late-Meiji three-storey storehouse beside the main house of the Iwao family in Hita, Oita, once also used as a double-height kitchen and a business parlor.

An early-Meiji two-storey annex behind the Iwao family house in Hita, Oita, reached by a covered corridor, with a toilet lavishly finished in marble and mirrors.

Discover the Kajiwara Family Residence Storehouse, a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built around 1907 in the historic castle town of Hiji, Oita Prefecture. Explore its Meiji-era dozo architecture, the merchant heritage of Beppu Bay, and nearby attractions.

Kasuga Shrine Itsukushima Subsidiary Shrine in Bungotakada, Oita, is a Meiji-era miniature shrine of 1.2 square metres with railings and steps, registered in 2011.