Meiji

明治

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Masuya Ryokan East Wing
Nagano 明治
Masuya Ryokan East Wing

The Masuya Ryokan East Wing, the inn's oldest block, is an early Meiji three-storey wing in Tazawa Onsen with a curved roof, bracketed verandas and the Toson Room.

Masuya Ryokan East Storehouse
Nagano 明治
Masuya Ryokan East Storehouse

The Masuya Ryokan East Storehouse is an early Meiji storehouse facing the East Wing across the street in Tazawa Onsen, with plastered eaves and namako-style walls.

Masuya Ryokan Main Building
Nagano 明治
Masuya Ryokan Main Building

The Masuya Ryokan Main Building, a three-storey timber inn of c.1907 in Tazawa Onsen, Nagano, is the largest of six registered buildings, with round columns.

Minoya Storehouse
Nagano 明治
Minoya Storehouse

Minoya Dozo in Matsushiro, Nagano City, is a two-storey earthen storehouse of 30 square metres at the rear of a merchant plot, its white plaster now clad in iron.

Miharaya Shoten Kitakura
Nagano 明治
Miharaya Shoten Kitakura

West of the Miharaya shop, the 1872 North Storehouse dresses its street gable in namako-kabe and sets its windows high, so two floors read as three from the road.

Miharaya Shoten Store
Nagano 明治
Miharaya Shoten Store

West of Zenkoji temple, the 1872 Miharaya shop sets an open storefront beside a namako-kabe warehouse. This miso and soy-sauce brewer, founded in 1848, still works here.

Miharaya Shoten Nakakura
Nagano 明治
Miharaya Shoten Nakakura

South of the shop, the 1877 Middle Storehouse lifts a hipped third storey above a two-storey earthen body, anchoring the alley view along Uchiwaya-koji.

Miharaya Shoten Nishikura
Nagano 明治
Miharaya Shoten Nishikura

West of the South Storehouse, the 1877 West Storehouse is a two-storey gabled earthen store for miso, linked on its upper floor to the South Storehouse next door.

Miharaya Shoten Tozo
Nagano 明治
Miharaya Shoten Tozo

Adjoining the Middle Storehouse, the 1877 East Storehouse is the largest of the group: a long soy-sauce brewing warehouse with shuttered windows on its south gable.

Miharaya Shoten Nankura
Nagano 明治
Miharaya Shoten Nankura

On the southern edge of the grounds, the 1877 South Storehouse is a low earthen store whose eastern half held the koji room where the brewery's fermentation once began.

Miyazawa Family Residence Storehouse
Nagano 明治
Miyazawa Family Residence Storehouse

The oldest building on the Miyazawa estate in Azumino: an 1885 two-story storehouse with a plastered canopy and namako-kabe tiling, tortoise-shell at the front only.

Meiji Yonjuyonen Kan (former Karuizawa Post Office)
Nagano 明治
Meiji Yonjuyonen Kan (former Karuizawa Post Office)

Standing in the wooded grounds of Karuizawa Taliesin beside Lake Shiozawa in Nagano Prefecture, the Meiji 44 Hall is a registered National Tangible Cultural Property—a careful relocation and restoration of the original Karuizawa Post Office built in 1911. Designed by railway carpenter Koda Ryokichi, this two-story wooden Western-style building features a strictly symmetrical facade, hipped tile roof, and the iconic mint-green German-style lap siding restored to its original Meiji-era color. Today it houses Restaurant Sonett on the ground floor and the Fukazawa Koko Wild Flower Museum on the second floor.

Yamada Ryokan New Storehouse
Nagano 明治
Yamada Ryokan New Storehouse

The Yamada Ryokan New Storehouse, a 1909 store on a stone wall at the inn entrance, names its builder on the ridge beam and has served as a museum since 1979.

Yamada Ryokan Front Storehouse
Nagano 明治
Yamada Ryokan Front Storehouse

The Yamada Ryokan Front Storehouse, an 1885 earthen store at Otari Onsen, wraps even its pent-roof posts in white plaster; registered in 2001 as a model of form.

Rikyudo Sakai Family Residence Main House
Nagano 明治
Rikyudo Sakai Family Residence Main House

Built about 1887 for a family of doctors, this Nagano farmhouse tucks an examination room and waiting room off its earth floor beneath a silkworm-style vented ridge.

Rikyudo Sakai Family Residence Storehouse
Nagano 明治
Rikyudo Sakai Family Residence Storehouse

An earthen storehouse of about 1887 on a Nagano doctor's estate, with a lean-to extended into a rear gate and an iron canopy on its east side. Registered 2001.

Rikyudo Sakai Family Residence Nagayamon Gate
Nagano 明治
Rikyudo Sakai Family Residence Nagayamon Gate

This 25-meter gatehouse of about 1887 closes the south side of a Nagano doctor's estate. Its roof steps down midway and its heavy doors open inward. Registered 2001.

Rikyudo Sakai Family Residence Garden Wall
Nagano 明治
Rikyudo Sakai Family Residence Garden Wall

An 18-meter roofed earthen wall of about 1887 around the garden of a Nagano doctor's estate, plastered on one face and post-and-panel on the other. Registered 2001.

Rikyudo Sakai Family Residence Miso Storehouse
Nagano 明治
Rikyudo Sakai Family Residence Miso Storehouse

A 14-square-meter storehouse of about 1887 on a Nagano doctor's estate, with an earth-floored ground level for miso and carefully framed openings. Registered 2001.

Jinpukaku
Tottori 明治
Jinpukaku

Jinpukaku in Tottori, a Renaissance-style house of 1907 built for the future Emperor Taisho, is closed for repairs until the 2028 fiscal year; its garden stays open.