Meiji
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An early-Meiji audience hall at Usa in Oita, 205 square metres, pairing rooms of 18 and 10 mats with the smaller raised as a dais. Registered in 2016.
The main hall of Myojuji Temple in Bungotakada, Oita, built in about 1902 to designs by Sasaki Iwajiro, is a 764-square-metre Shin Buddhist hall with fine eaves.
The Former Shitsu Rescue Center in Nagasaki, built 1883 to 1885 by Father de Rotz for villagers, keeps a workshop, macaroni factory and net factory on a slope.
Shitsu Church in Nagasaki, consecrated in 1882 and completed in 1909 by Father de Rotz, is a rare early church of brick and timber; visits need advance notice.
The Former Latin Seminary beside Oura Cathedral in Nagasaki, a half-timbered brick building of 1875 by Father de Rotz, now houses the Kirishitan Museum.
A single-storey merchant's house of about 1868 in Nagasaki, its stone walls from Amakusa and veranda granite from Vladivostok. Important Cultural Property, 1966.
Ikegami Family Residence in Nagasaki's Ōura district is a clapboard Western-style house of the late Meiji 20s, registered in 1998. Lived in; viewed from the street.
Umegae Sake Brewery Former North Storehouse, a Meiji rice-polishing mill in Sasebo, was moved around 1960. At 19.7 meters it is the longest of the seven registered.
An early Meiji well at the centre of the Kato Sake Brewery lot in Shimabara: a 1.2 m square tuff curb around a round shaft 10 m deep, said to supply brewing water.
An early Meiji earthen wall 37 m long enclosing the back of the Kato Sake Brewery lot in Shimabara, with a diagonal corner and a service door. Registered 2008.
This early Meiji townhouse in Shimabara holds the brewer's shop and home under a two-tier roof, with a 263 mm central pillar and Taisho alcoves. Registered in 2008.
Kameoka Shrine Kagura Hall, built in 1880, is an open-sided stage with a turtle-and-wave gable carving, where all 24 pieces of Hirado Kagura are danced each October.
Kameoka Shrine Worship Hall, built in 1880, is a square hip-and-gable hall with a veranda and stone steps; inside hang plaques of three of the four merged shrines.
Kameoka Shrine Main Hall in Hirado, built in 1880, stands on a tall stone wall at the north end of the precinct, with chigi on its ridge and deities by its steps.
An 1890 single-storey house in the middle of a Shimabara samurai estate, its reception, entrance and kitchen wings stepped diagonally. Registered 2012. Rarely open.
A late-Meiji brick wall that steps down a sloping road in three heights along the north side of a Shimabara samurai estate; said to date from a road widening.
A tall 2-storey timber house of c.1899 in Nishidomari, Nagasaki, with a brick firewall on its east boundary, registered in 1997 for its rare mix of wood and brick.
An early Meiji stone warehouse on a corner in Nishidomari, Nagasaki: sandstone walls with a cornice and gables of thin local konnyaku brick, registered in 1997.
A 2-storey stone warehouse of c.1899 at the Sato house in Nagasaki, a rare survivor of the stone stores once common in the city's foreign settlement, listed 1997.
A small single-storey timber annex of c.1899 at the Sato house in Nagasaki, linking the main house to a stone warehouse, with brick firewalls on both long walls.