Meiji

The Sekisaki Lighthouse of 1901 at the eastern tip of the Saganoseki Peninsula, Oita, is an 11-metre iron tower of riveted plate, a rare Meiji-era iron lighthouse.

Built in 1872 by local carpenter Higashi Hidezo, this small Usuki townhouse carries deep eaves on projecting brackets above latticed windows. A private home.

Fujiya Ryokan Stone Wall in Kannawa, Beppu: a 71 m zigzag retaining wall of 1898 whose fitted tortoise-shell masonry turns to rough field stone past the steps.

Fujiya Ryokan Stone Steps in Kannawa, Beppu: an 1898 flight 2.1 m wide to match the gate above, with thick slab treads and a north face near tortoise-shell masonry.

Fujiya Ryokan Main House, Kannawa, Beppu: an 1898 two-storey timber inn of two hipped wings, keeping its old shikidai entrance. Now a café and hall; registered 2001.

Fujiya Ryokan Front Gate in Kannawa, Beppu: a 2.1 m yakuimon of 1898 set atop stone steps, facing the inn's old formal entrance as an eye-stop. Registered in 2001.

The Bungo Channel Maritime Museum in Saiki City, Oita Prefecture, is a Western-style brick building constructed in 1904 as a rest house for the keepers of the Mizunokojima Lighthouse. Designated as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, this Meiji-era structure now houses fascinating exhibits including a Fresnel lens formerly used in the lighthouse and a unique collection of migratory bird specimens, preserving the maritime heritage of the Bungo Channel.

A 172-meter stone perimeter wall built in 1904 on the Tsurumi Peninsula in Saiki City, Oita Prefecture. Originally enclosing the rest house compound of lighthouse keepers who maintained the Mizunokojima Lighthouse in the Bungo Strait, the wall features distinctive concrete cap stones and has been a Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 1998. The adjacent Maritime Museum displays the lighthouse's Fresnel lens and exhibits on the lives of the keepers.

West of the Hoashi branch bathhouse, a mid-Meiji well house on a cut-stone platform shelters a rectangular stone well curb under a gabled pantile roof.

In the Hoashi branch compound's southwest corner, a mid-Meiji 2-story wing joins a gabled back-gate block at a right angle, its double doors opening to the rear.

Built in 1889 on the Hoashi branch estate's western edge, this 2-story grain store of 7 by 3 bays has two doors under a full-length lean-to and a raised floor.

In the garden north of the Hoashi branch main house, a mid-Meiji plastered pawn storehouse with a tiled base stands on cut stone behind its own fence and gate.

Built in 1906 on Hetsugi Honmachi's main street, this 2-story shop house pairs an earthen passage with fine guest rooms, the only one of 11 listed as hard to copy.

A mid-Meiji wing behind the Hoashi branch main house: one 8-mat room, a wide veranda on the inner garden, and a tile-capped fence and gate registered with it.

A mid-Meiji plastered tool storehouse on the Hoashi branch estate's northwest edge, with a namako-kabe base, two iron-shuttered windows and rows of rain tiles.

A mid-Meiji street wall at the Hoashi branch residence: cut stone, clapboard and plaster with two lattice windows, ending in a small garden gate 1.8 metres wide.

Built in 1889 beside the Hoashi grain store, this single-story miso storehouse is the only timber-framed one of four, boarded on its west and north walls.

The mid-Meiji ridge gate of the Hoashi branch residence: 2.7 metres wide, tiled, set back beside the main house, with a wicket door and plaster walls on both sides.

West of the Hoashi branch kitchen, a 12 square metre mid-Meiji bathing block joins a washing room and a bath room at right angles under two kinds of tiled roof.

An 1885 hexagonal sutra repository at Usa in Oita, plaster-sealed on a stepped stone podium, holding an octagonal revolving case inside. Registered in 2016.