Meiji
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A plastered earthen wall of about 1910 in Tomi City, Nagano, running from the west wall and turning east to meet the rear entrance of the silkworm rearing house.
A two-storey rearing house of about 1910 in Tomi City, Nagano, with three silkworm rooms upstairs, a projecting south veranda and a ventilating monitor roof.
Built about 1906 in Tomi City, Nagano, this two-storey farmhouse rears silkworms upstairs and splits its south front between a lean-to and a beam-carried veranda.
Built in 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, this corner storehouse rises from a hexagonal stone wall, its lower walls faced in flat stone and finished in namako plaster.
An outbuilding of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, 11 bays long, closing the east side of the compound with a long sheltered eave along its western front.
An earthen wall of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, raised on a stone embankment and turning its gable end toward the old highway at the compound's corner.
A two-bay yakuimon gate of about 1901 at the southwest corner of a Tomi City compound in Nagano, set within a castle-style right-angled entry of walls and stone.
A one-bay ridge gate of about 1910 in Tomi City, Nagano, set back from the wall line and leading into the back garden between the house and the rearing house.
A single-storey building of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, pairing a miso room with a drying room and closing the gap between the storehouse and the row house.
A masonry retaining wall of about 1901 in Tomi City, Nagano, running from the front gate to the west gate in hexagonal courses that carry the fence above.
A small storehouse built for fumigation beside the gate of the former Kobayashi headman's residence near Nagano, registered for its unusual Western-style eaves.
In Motoyama post town on the old Nakasendō, the Kobayashi inn lifts its upper floor on two rare tiers of projecting beams, rebuilt after the 1869 great fire.
A small early-Meiji wooden hall in Nagano City, the Gomyo Family Detached Parlor has a full shoin set and a high hexagonal coffered ceiling. Registered in 2010.
A tiny Meiji archive storehouse on the Gomyō family's Nagano estate, with white-plaster walls and cloud-carved brackets over its east door. Registered 2010.
A small 1897 granary at the center of a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with a single upper window, a pent-roofed gable door and wood floors on both levels.
A mid-Meiji rearing house on a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with a ventilation roof along its whole ridge and windows on both sides of three upstairs rooms.
A late Meiji two-story building on a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with a clay-sealed, plastered room below for disinfecting tools and a rearing room above.
An 1898 storehouse for family papers on a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with a crested ridge tile, a copper-roofed entrance and a tatami room upstairs.
A small late Meiji storehouse for household miso on a silkworm-egg estate in Ueda, Nagano, with an earth floor below and clay packed even under its pent roof.
West of the main house in Saku, Nagano: a slender 6.6-by-3.7m earthen storehouse, boarded floor, with a miso room attached beneath an offset roof. Registered 2011.