Meiji
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An 1877 machiya on Usuki's Hatcho Oji arcade, with four latticed windows in white plaster and an earth-floored shop below. Kagiya has brewed here since 1600.
Kayashima Family Residence Annex in Kunisaki, Oita, is an 1897 reception wing with plastered eaves and garden verandas, the only one of 14 listed for design.
Kayashima Sake Brewery North Storehouse in Kunisaki, Oita, is a long 1906 timber storehouse used for bottling, unusual on the site for its board ceiling.
Kayashima Sake Brewery Former Muromae in Kunisaki, Oita, is an 1894 plastered building where koji was cooled, one of the brewery's two oldest buildings.
Kayashima Sake Brewery Cold Storehouse in Kunisaki, Oita, is an 1894 earthen brewhouse used for cold storage since 1929, insulated with rice husks inside its walls.
The private wing of the Inaba lords' Usuki villa, c. 1902: four rooms in a ta-no-ji plan, an alcoved main room and paper screens set high for light. Registered 2008.
Front gate of the Inaba lords' Usuki villa, c. 1902: a 2.7 m bracket-arm gate with a wicket on each side, brace posts, boat-shaped brackets and a lattice band.
A 45 m wall and 2.3 m service gate of c. 1902 at the Inaba lords' Usuki villa: local tuff base, dark board skirting and white plaster on the street. Registered 2008.
Built in 1902 for the former Inaba lords of Usuki: a gable-fronted hall with a shikidai porch, an alcoved upper room and an 18.5-mat room. Registered in 2008.
The kitchen of the Inaba lords' Usuki villa, c. 1902: an 8 m square, two-storey block with an earthen floor, open eaves and a void carrying stove smoke to the roof.
A two-storey storehouse of c. 1902 at the Inaba lords' Usuki villa: cut-stone base, white plaster, two rooms with own doors and a deep east eave. Registered 2008.
The mid-Meiji detached house of the Arinaga headman's estate in Kunisaki, Oita, registered in 2000, on a tortoiseshell stone base and now a training hall.
Built in 1879 in Taketa's castle town, this Sato townhouse combined shop and home, with an earthen shop floor, a through passage and a white upper front. Visiting.
The Sato former miso storehouse, built 1879 in Taketa, turns a white gable to the street between two townhouses, with a lean-to passage in front. What to look for.
The Sato Main House is an 1879 townhouse in Taketa's old castle town, with bracketed degeta eaves and white plaster above. How sources differ and what you can see.
Behind the Sato townhouses in Taketa stands a small two-storey earthen storehouse of about 1879, plastered white with few windows, keeping a merchant compound whole.
A late-Meiji sukiya-style annex of about 1909 facing the inlet of Oga harbour in Hiji, Oita, with a hipped roof, gabled porch and polished-log rafters. How to visit.
The Jodoji Temple Front Gate in Oita is a late Meiji four-legged gate with fan rafters, a coffered ceiling and carved dragons, baku and lions before the Main Hall.
The Jodoji Temple Daibenzaiten Stone Shrine in Oita is a 1911 miniature shrine carved from four blocks of local tuff, with brackets and rafters cut in stone.
The main hall of the Higashi Betsuin in Usa, rebuilt in 1880 after fire. One of Kyushu's largest Shin Buddhist halls, with a broad plan and a decorated inner sanctuary.