Meiji
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A 267-square-meter single-storey storehouse holding 2,000 koku of rice, plain outside but braced with many tie beams and clad in boards on its river-facing wall.
The largest house in Higashi-Iwase, rebuilt after the 1873 fire, with a 30-meter skylit earthen passage, a 33-mat hall and an early Showa annex, open for 100 yen.
The river-facing gate and 37-meter wall of a shipping merchant's estate, a bracketed gate with a gently curved roof above boulder, board and white plaster layers.
A three-storey earthen storehouse beside the Baba main house, with two tall windows in glass bays on the street and fireproof four-tier doors reached from the house.
A Meiji-era three-storey earthen storehouse at the Former Miyazaki Sake Brewery in Namerikawa, with a trowelled family crest on its doors and a torii-shaped lintel.
A small mid-Meiji earthen storehouse beside the sake storehouse of the Former Miyazaki Sake Brewery, under a shared roof, with a crest inside its kakegonuri doors.
A mid-Meiji earthen-walled sake storehouse at the back of the Former Miyazaki Sake Brewery in Namerikawa: L-shaped, 277 m², white plaster, black base, charred cedar.
The Sano Family Residence Storehouse No. 1 is the north end of four storehouses built in a row after Takaoka's 1900 fire to form a firebreak behind the house.
Built in 1900 after the Takaoka fire, the Sano Family Residence Main House is a large dozo-zukuri townhouse of black plaster and copper shutters, now a restaurant.
Built around 1900 in the courtyard behind the main house, the Sano Family Residence Tea Room is a 12-square-meter copper-roofed tea room of a Takaoka merchant.
Built around 1900, the Sano Family Residence Furnishings Storehouse has two fire doors on its north wall to seal a passage and even a plastered-over front eave.
Built around 1900 beside Storehouse No. 1, the Sano Family Residence Storehouse No. 2 has a fire-door entrance, a small fireproof window and a kuramae front.
Built around 1900, the Sano Family Residence Firewall is a free-standing brick wall 5.6 m high and 25 m long, with its pier and coping also made of brick.
The largest of four storehouses, the Sano Family Residence Miso Storehouse of about 1900 meets a brick firewall and has a sliding fire door, which is rare.
The main house of Johana Iori in Nanto, Toyama, is a townhouse of about 1905 in the temple town of Zentokuji, with bracketed eaves and wing walls typical of Johana.
The storehouse of Johana Iori in Nanto, Toyama, a plastered two-storey storehouse of the mid Meiji period, has door and window frames shaped like torii gates.
Built in 1900 and shifted on its frame around 1951, the West Building of Shofuro in Nanto, Toyama carries a plaster cornice marking local teahouse architecture.
Largest of four registered buildings at Shofuro in Nanto, Toyama. Built in 1900, its fourteen guest rooms were each detailed differently, two by Kanazawa carpenters.
A three-storey timber townhouse on the old Hokuriku highway in Namerikawa, Toyama, rebuilt after the 1866 fire that destroyed Sewamachi. Registered in 2017.
Dairakuji Priests' Quarters at Imizu in Toyama was raised in the month after the 1869 port fire, pairing a sukiya reception hall with beamed farmhouse rooms.