Meiji
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The smallest of the seven Okawa buildings in Ashikaga: a white early Meiji storehouse entered from its gable end and linked to the Main Storehouse. Registered 2003.
The Ota Family Residence Inarisha Shrine in Sano is a 0.5 m² household shrine of around 1881 with diamond-lattice walls and ridge tiles bearing the family crest.
The Ota Family Residence Middle Storehouse in Sano joins a plastered storehouse of around 1875 to a sukiya-style timber wing with servants' rooms and a bath.
The Ota Family Residence West Storehouse in Sano is a plastered storehouse of around 1875 with clay doors facing inward and one tatami room among four rooms inside.
The Ota Family Residence Hachimansha Shrine in Sano is a household shrine of around 1881, only 0.2 m², with a curved-gable porch, packed brackets and fine carving.
The Ota Family Residence Shop Storehouse and Main House in Sano is an earthen-walled shop of around 1875 with plastered eaves and a high ridge, and the house behind.
Oya Kobikan in Kanuma, Tochigi, a late Meiji photographer's studio on a shrine approach, has a skylit upstairs studio and a gable bearing the character for beauty.
The Ogawa Family Residence Front Gate in Oyama, Tochigi, is a gate of about 1912 with a granite frame, quoins, a carved gable and a cornice, set in a 10-meter wall.
The Ogawa Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Oyama, Tochigi, is a 15-ken plaster storehouse of 1911 with five bays and a king post truss, now an art gallery.
The Ogawa Family Residence Main House in Oyama, Tochigi, is a 1912 merchant's home with a large irimoya gable and an upstairs Western room in plaster relief.
The Ogawa Family Residence Storehouse in Oyama, Tochigi, was built in 1894 at the Otome Kashi river landing and moved in 1911. Fine plaster crowns its ridge tiles.
An 1892 two-story earthen storehouse in Ashikaga whose ridge beam bears the date and the name of master carpenter Kobayashi Risuke, noted for carved stair stringers.
A mid-Meiji udekimon gate in Ashikaga, set back from the old highway and lined up with the main house entrance, with posts 1.9 meters apart and a pantile roof.
An 1892 merchant home in Ashikaga with a hipped pantile roof, a guest room in the upstairs southwest corner and a tea room set above the passage to its storehouse.
An 1872 former sake store at the Onoguchi estate, Utsunomiya: timber clad in Oya stone, with a drip ledge and vertical corner stones. Its largest listed building.
A late Meiji compost shed of stacked Oya stone at the Onoguchi estate, Utsunomiya, with a truss-framed hip roof, stone canopies over openings and pine-motif windows.
The Onoguchi Nagayamon in Utsunomiya is an 1876 timber gatehouse clad in stone, with an arched wooden doorway and windows. Moved in the Taisho era; listed in 1999.
Gashu Store stands east of Korai Bridge in Tochigi City: a late-Meiji earthen-walled shop in black lime plaster with a high stacked ridge and an outsized kagemori.
The worship gate of Karasawayama Shrine in Sano, Tochigi, was built in 1883 at its founding, the oldest building on the mountain, with plain knotty pillars.
Around the main hall of Karasawayama Shrine in Sano, Tochigi, run the 1909 inner gate and 52-meter openwork fence, their diamond lattice framing the sanctuary.