Meiji
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The early Meiji storehouse of Kumeya, the wakihonjin of Komoro on the Hokkoku Kaido, has white plaster walls and now serves as a two-floor guest room.
An early Meiji storehouse on an Ueda silkworm-egg estate whose walls are stacked squared timbers hidden under white plaster, built to guard the family's papers.
Built in 1890 at the heart of an Ueda silkworm-egg estate, this plastered rearing house keeps its fire furnaces, leaf cellar and slatted ceiling. Registered 2024.
A small Meiji silkworm room joined to the north of Silkworm Room No. 1 on an Ueda egg-producing estate, with plaster walls, board skirting and an open roof frame.
An early Meiji storehouse on an Ueda silkworm-egg estate that kept miso below and tools above, its loft showing rare notched rafters and overlapping roof boards.
A stout Meiji-era gate, moved to this Ueda silkworm-egg estate in 1904, with frog-leg brackets, double rafters and scars from wartime metal drives. Registered 2024.
The largest building on an Ueda silkworm-egg estate: a 1890 rearing house topped by a full-length vent roof, with a furnace modeled on an 1887 government design.
Built about 1908 to hold food and fodder for the Matsumoto 50th Infantry Regiment, this 36.3-metre brick warehouse in English bond now serves Shinshu University.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Back Gate, Kitchen Miso Storehouse and Office, c.1880, Nakano: a zelkova gate said to come from Iiyama Castle, and an office.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Okuzashiki, mid-Meiji guest rooms in Nakano, Nagano, moved in 1951: a cedar alcove post, flat shoin and verandas facing a garden.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Sake Shop, a mid-Meiji 2-storey building in Nakano, Nagano, sold the family's sake until 1912; its timber frame is left exposed.
The Former Yamada Family Residence Rokkengura and Nikengura Storehouses, a c.1880 grain store in Nakano, Nagano: 26 metres under one roof with three garden doors.
The former Reischauer villa in Karuizawa, Nagano, a late Meiji summer house of August K. Reischauer, is clad in cedar bark with a fireplace of Asama stone.
A late-Meiji two-story storehouse behind the main house of the Kosaka homestead in Nagano City, white plaster over board-clad lower walls. Registered 2019.
A late-Meiji bracket gate on the north side of the Kosaka homestead in Nagano City, tiled over boards with no rafters, with a board sleeve wall. Registered in 2019.
A 58 m late-Meiji tiled earthen wall around the west and north of the Kosaka homestead in Nagano City, linking the rice storehouse and rear warehouse.
The early-Meiji gatehouse of the Kosaka homestead in Nagano City: 127 m², with a deep lintel and double beam over its gateway, joined to the miso storehouse.
A late-Meiji storehouse at the Kosaka homestead's northeast corner in Nagano City, plastered up to the eaves, with no north or east windows and a cut corner.
An early-Meiji storehouse at the Kosaka homestead in Nagano City, joined to the nagayamon gate as one facade, with small upper windows. Registered in 2019.
A timber gate of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano: a three-bay four-legged gate with zelkova door panels, set back from the old highway behind stone walls.