Meiji
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A late Meiji gatekeeper's lodge in Azumino, Nagano, topped by a smoke-vent roof and registered together with the earthen wall and kabukimon gate beside it.
A dry-stone check dam of c.1884 in Kuwabara, Chikuma, Nagano. Just 3.8 m high, it leans back at a 1:1.6 slope and runs a 7.2 m stone apron below to steady the bed.
The widest of four Meiji check dams on the Izawa River in Chikuma, Nagano. Only 3.7 m high but 35 m across, its spillway uses big blocks and its wings small ones.
The lowest and smallest of four Meiji check dams on the Izawa River in Chikuma, Nagano. Built under Home Ministry works, its crest sags like a slack rope.
Built in the early Meiji era north of the rice store at Imai in Okaya, this 46 square metre timber store has two-bay doors on both floors and an open canopy.
Backed by woodland at the north of the estate in Okaya, this Meiji sawing shed of 40 square metres braces three sides and leaves its south front wholly open.
Set along the channel on the western edge of the estate at Imai in Okaya, this Meiji watermill hut of 7.3 square metres rises two boarded storeys under a gable.
Standing before the main house at Imai in Okaya, this Meiji inner gate is 2.1 metres wide, roofed in copper and joined by plastered walls to house and front gate.
The No. 5 check dam on the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, a dry-stone dam of 1887, 18 by 7.8 metres, is one of the Home Ministry dams that tamed the basin.
The No. 3 check dam on the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, a dry-stone dam of 1886, 22 by 8.2 metres, is one of the Home Ministry dams that tamed the basin.
The No. 2 check dam on the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, a dry-stone dam of 1886, 25 by 6.5 metres, is one of the Home Ministry dams that tamed the basin.
The No. 4 check dam on the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, a dry-stone dam of 1887, 20 by 7.0 metres, is one of the Home Ministry dams that tamed the basin.
An early Meiji plastered storehouse in Okaya, Nagano, northernmost of three kura beside the Katakura main house, with a detached gabled roof and a notable doorway.
The smallest Katakura storehouse in Okaya, Nagano: an early Meiji miso store with a trapezoid plan, an earth floor inside and a deep eave sheltering a work area.
An early Meiji store for everyday tableware at the Katakura homestead in Okaya, Nagano, widest of three kura, angled to follow a bending lane under a lower roof.
On the west edge of the Ozawa compound in Matsumoto's Hofukuji town, this 1908 storehouse shows rafter shapes through its eave plaster, its plan shaped wholly by storage.
Built in 1905 at the southern edge of the old post town of Ono in Tatsuno, Nagano, this timber village hall holds a tatami-floored assembly chamber upstairs.
The Inner Storehouse of the Former Koshi Family Residence in Suzaka, Nagano, is a late Meiji kura with heavy doors, rough plaster walls and a link to the main house.
The main house of the Former Koshi Family Residence in Suzaka, Nagano, a white-plastered Meiji home of a silk family, has a 36-mat reception suite open free.
The Outer Storehouse of the Former Koshi Family Residence in Suzaka, Nagano, is a late Meiji kura with white plaster walls, an iron-clad base and barred windows.