Meiji
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Added in 1901 to the Kikusuiro dining inn in Nara, this 3-story wooden building has a kikusui carving over its entrance and chrysanthemum windows; registered 2000.
An early-Meiji gatehouse raised on a stone retaining wall, its zelkova doorway carrying a curved tie beam and a carved strut borrowed from temple work.
The 1903 Main House of a soy sauce merchant in Uda-Matsuyama, Nara: lattices, black-plastered mushiko-mado, deep eaves, six rooms and boat-hull ceilings upstairs.
A late Meiji earthen storehouse in Uda, Nara, joining a rice store and a lower miso store, with a well under the front lean-to and two kinds of roof framing.
Meiji storehouse in the northwest corner of Kobaien, ink maker since 1577: the oldest of its 25 registered buildings, now holding the ink moulds. Registered 1998.
A mid Meiji building on the Shoji property in Ando, Nara, pairing a reception room with a fine alcove and a walk-through rice barn on the old moat, registered 2020.
A mid Meiji tool store in the north-east corner of the Shoji compound in Ando, Nara, its roof hip-and-gable at one end and gabled at the other, with namako tiles.
A two-storey guest wing of 1899 joined to the Shoji main house in Ando, Nara, with alcove rooms on both floors and a cedar-bark east wall; registered in 2020.
An early Meiji machiya on Nara's Sanjo-dori, cut back one ken when the street was widened, with a low tsushi-nikai upper floor. Registered 2003; now a Lawson store.
An early Meiji storehouse in Nara, eave to eave with its twin, its east wall in namako tiles and its west and rear walls boarded, with a south window upstairs.
An early Meiji storehouse behind the Zeitaku Mame Honpo shop in Nara, its tiles laid on boards set straight on the purlins, with no rafters at all. Registered 2003.
A late-Meiji well shelter by the lane to the gate of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: one bay square, open on two sides, with a curved beam.
Mid-Meiji guest wing of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: a hipped-gable roof on a stone-wall corner, with an alcove room and an eight-mat room.
Mid-Meiji tableware storehouse and six-mat bedroom on the western wall of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016, with a veranda above the drop.
Mid-Meiji rice storehouse and drying barn beside the gatehouse of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016, with a farmhands' room inside the barn.
The 1890 heart of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: a broad two-storey house with nine rooms in three rows and a formal entrance for guests.
Mid-Meiji gatehouse fronting a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: 19 meters of white wall on a stone terrace, with heavy posts and a crossbeam.
A late-Meiji living wing at the back of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: earth-plastered walls, a six-mat room, a bath and a toilet.
A small late-Meiji food store beside the kitchen door of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016: white-plastered walls, an earth floor and no ceiling.
Mid-Meiji storehouse and bedroom on the western wall of a farming estate in Ikoma, Nara, registered in 2016; the bedroom matches the guest wing next door.