Meiji
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Zaima Family Residence Main House in Tsuwano is a late Meiji townhouse, 15 m wide, registered in 2010 as a model of design for its lattice-filled upper front.
Zaima Family Residence Pickle Storehouse and Firewood Shed in Tsuwano is a late Meiji outbuilding with a well room, pickle store and firewood shed, registered 2010.
Zaima Family Residence Heya-no-kura in Tsuwano is a late Meiji storehouse of 23 m² with a namako tile base and a copper-shuttered window, registered in 2010.
Zaima Family Residence Main Gate in Tsuwano is a late Meiji bracket-arm gate, 1.7 m wide, with panel doors and a ring-tile ridge, registered as a property in 2010.
Zaima Family Residence Side Gate in Tsuwano is a late Meiji service gate, 1.8 m wide, with board doors and a tiled ryosage roof on the south lane, registered 2010.
Registered in 2019, this late Meiji storehouse on Izumo's Momen Kaido has a footprint of just 31 square metres, a basement, and a rear braced out above the canal.
The Meiji rice storehouse at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano held rice for sake. Its white gable bears a plaster kanko-dori rooster, an old symbol of peaceful rule.
At 444 square metres, the former sake storehouse is the largest at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano. Its roofs, layered by repeated additions, embody sake-making itself.
The early-Meiji store and residence anchors Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano. Alone of the seven buildings, it was registered as a model of design for its fine joinery.
The early-Meiji ridged gate at Shimomori Brewery in Tsuwano stands before the main house, its ridge in wave-pattern tiles and its paired beams cut from a single timber.
The Shimada main house of 1888 in Masuda, Shimane, home of a family that once brewed sake, spreads a great red-tiled roof over eight rooms in three rows.
Sumi Family Residence Main House in Yasugi, Shimane: a 1906 farmhouse with nine rooms in three rows, a north doma, tiled eaves on four sides and namako-kabe walls.
Sumi Family Residence Detached Guest Room in Yasugi, Shimane: a c.1906 guest wing holding a mizuya, tea room and reception room, with its own entrance.
Sumi Family Residence Gate Row House in Yasugi, Shimane: a c.1906 gate building with a board-floored store on one side and a room with a tokonoma on the other.
Sumi Family Residence Brick Chimney in Yasugi, Shimane: a c.1906 square brick flue, 6 m tall, tapering to a lightly decorated top; its kitchen is now lost.
An 1874 cedar gate on the south edge of an Izumo estate, facing the main house door: 3.5 meters wide, with a gabled tile roof and much of its original frame.
A thatched house of about 1874 at the heart of an Izumo estate, with a tiled lean-to all round, an earthen floor and six rooms split by a corridor. Registered 2019.
An 1874 yakuimon garden gate in front of the main house of an Izumo estate, built entirely of zelkova, with large ridge-end tiles and a turnip-shaped gable board.
An early Meiji two-story wing joined to the main house of an Izumo estate, with a rice store at the north end and a 17.5-mat hall and guest room to the south.
An 1874 clay-walled storehouse behind the main house of an Izumo estate, with a separately framed tile roof, plaster reliefs on its gables and closely set posts.