Meiji
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A middle Meiji timber workshop at the rear of a tobacco merchant's lot in Ikeda, Tokushima. Its earth and plank floors record how the shredding work was zoned.
An 1891 merchant house in Ikeda, Tokushima, built on the shredded tobacco trade: a 15.9-metre frontage, tiled fire-break walls at each end, a Western parlour.
A mid-Meiji fermentation storehouse at the Nakawa Shoten brewery in Ikeda, Tokushima, registered in 2019, whose roof of braced logs spans a hall of tanks.
A rare two-story wooden lantern above Tokushima's Yoshino River, built 1884. It packs full temple-hall carpentry — fan rafters, cusped windows, kara-hafu gable — into a 15-square-meter structure registered nationally in 2011.
A single-bay yakuimon of the early Meiji era at Hashikuraji in Miyoshi, Tokushima, this gate fronts the abbot's quarters and is finished with a coffered ceiling.
Built in 1896 at the top of Mount Hōju in western Tokushima, Hashikuraji's Temizuya stands at the head of the 278-step Heart Sutra staircase, directly in front of the Honden. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in October 2011.
Built in 1880 on the old stone path up to Hashikuraji in Miyoshi, Tokushima, this two-storey gate carries Zen-style bracketing, cusped windows and a disputed origin.
Hiraoka Family Residence Main House, Kaiyo: an 1872 farmhouse whose two-story shell wraps a staggered four-room plan and a formal central entrance hall.
Hiraoka Family Residence West Wall, Kaiyo: an early Meiji L-shaped sandstone wall, 21.2 meters long, with a curved corner, facing the old samurai quarter.
An 1895 earthen storehouse in Kitajima, Tokushima, raised on high stones against Yoshino River floods, with clapboard below, lime plaster above. Listed 2016.
A Meiji-era gatehouse in Kitajima, Tokushima, with a watch room, cattle stall, raised gate roof and privy, plus a 12-metre German-wall concrete wall. Listed 2016.
Across the road from its sake storehouses, Honke Matsuura's late Meiji rice polishing house in Naruto has two raised roof vents and plaster relief reading Narutotai.
Honke Matsuura's West Sake Storehouse in Naruto is an early Meiji brewing store of 248 m², set back from the road and linked by a lean-to to its Edo neighbor.
The guardian shrine of Manpukuji in Naka, Tokushima, a one-bay shrine of 1889 on a rubble base, is simply built but an essential part of the temple precinct.
The Morimoto Family Residence Front Gate in Katsuura, Tokushima, is a late Meiji yakuimon gate with a wave-pattern ridge and a finned gegyo at the estate entrance.
The Morimoto Family Residence New Storehouse in Katsuura, Tokushima, is an earthen storehouse of 1907 whose gable carries a fish-fin gegyo charm in plaster relief.
The Morimoto Family Residence Barn in Katsuura, Tokushima, is a low 2-storey Meiji barn with gabled and hipped ends that encloses the yard before the main house.
The Morimoto Family Residence Annex in Katsuura, Tokushima, is a late Meiji guest pavilion of zelkova and Yakusugi cedar, the estate's only model of form and design.
The Yamashita Family Residence Front Gate in Tsuji, Miyoshi, is a keyaki munamon gate of about 1899, 1.5 m wide, with a carved pine transom and flanking walls.
The Yamashita Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Tsuji, Miyoshi, is an 1883 earth-walled kura whose rear door once took in goods from a canal behind it.