Meiji

The 1909 main house of the Takeshige brewery in Motai, with plastered gables and a passage to the cellars behind. Its walled street front is a famed Nakasendo scene.

A 1909 gate of keyaki timber, two metres wide, that splits a Nagano sake brewery's working approach from the private garden of the main house. Registered in 2000.

A mid-Meiji earthen fermentation cellar of 244 square metres behind the No. 1 cellar at a Nagano brewery, with a Western-style testing room and a koji room upstairs.

A white-plastered timber fence of about 1909, nine bays long with a gentle bend, running from the main house along the east water channel of a Nagano brewery estate.

A two-storey earthen storehouse of 1912 with a set-on roof, black-plastered openings and a moulded cornice, facing a Nagano brewer's drawing room across a garden.

A long, narrow late-Meiji grain shed along the west edge of a Nagano sake brewer's estate, its eight doorways closed by twelve stacked drop-boards, a rare survival.

A small two-storey earthen cellar of about 1912, built to match the document storehouse beside it; the rear gate between them divides a brewer's home from work.

Inside the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji roofed wall of about 40 m and its gates screen the large garden from the working lane of storehouses.

Behind the Tanaka kitchen in Suzaka, this early Meiji two-storey kura hides a fine upstairs room, with long windows and metal eave brackets showing Western taste.

On the street side of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Meiji gate pairs an open gateway with a gatekeeper's lodge, its roof carried on curved beams.

Built in 1895 by Suzaka carpenter Harada Torakichi, this two-storey guest hall of prized timber opens onto the Tanaka estate garden in Suzaka, Nagano Prefecture.

At the centre of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, this early Meiji house joins a hipped two-storey living wing to a gabled kitchen wing by an earthen passage.

At the centre of the north row of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this 22.5 m late Meiji storehouse once turned a waterwheel with water led in by a channel.

South of the Reception Hall in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji two-storey pavilion has two upstairs rooms with railed verandas and once stood on the hall's site.

Three early Meiji storehouses joined in a 35-metre row front the street of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano; the middle one has long held the family's hina dolls.

Running 28 m from the brewery to the east edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji kura held farm tools and is named after a lotus pond.

Enclosing the east and northeast of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, these early Meiji walls run 80 m, plastered outside and open inside as bays for storage.

At the southeast corner of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this early Meiji building shows plaster to the outside and a clay face with wide board doors inside.

On the north edge of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this small early Meiji kura shows white plaster outside and bare clay inside, beside a gated passage.

Built around 1895 next to the Reception Hall in Suzaka, Nagano, this 20-square-metre bathhouse pairs a bath with a small sitting room under carefully finished eaves.