Meiji
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The Kabashima Family Residence Garden Gate and Fence in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a late Meiji gate and 9.8-meter fence screening the inner garden from the forecourt.
The Kabashima Family Residence East and North Gates and Fence in Itoshima are late Meiji bracket-arm gates on a 32-meter plastered fence running north from the barn.
The Kabashima Family Residence Small Shrine in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a late Meiji hokora 0.65 meters square on a brick plinth that guards the northeast.
The Kabashima Family Residence South Gate and Fence in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a late Meiji yakuimon gate 2.9 meters wide with 23 meters of fence, facing the house.
The Kabashima Family Residence Shrine in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a late Meiji household shrine of 5.5 square meters with brackets and a frog-leg strut on each gable.
The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Reception Wing in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is a two-room guest wing, first viewpoint for the Meiji pond garden, of 1887 or c.1906.
The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Main House in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is a full two-storey core dated 1887 or around 1906, registered in 2002 as a cultural property.
The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Treasure Storehouse in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is a ten-bay plastered store with hooded windows, dated c.1887 or to 1916.
A brick fan house of about 1904 from the Mitsubishi Hojo colliery in Fukuchi, Fukuoka, registered in 1997, one of the best-preserved coal industry buildings in Chikuho.
The Former Tamanoi Ryokan on Tsuyazaki beach in Fukutsu, Fukuoka, a timber inn of 1909 extended again and again, looks out to sea from its upstairs veranda.
This twin-gabled brick substation of around 1909 in Omuta converted AC into the DC that drove the Miike Coal Mine Railway. Now an office; exterior viewing only.
This 31.2-metre brick chimney of 1888 vented the boilers of the Miyaura Pit. The last chimney left at Miike, it is free to visit in Miyaura Coal Memorial Park.
A 45-meter brick chimney of 1908 in Tagawa's Coal Memorial Park, laid in English bond to draft the mine's boiler house. Among the largest Meiji brick stacks left.
A 45-meter brick chimney of 1908 in Tagawa's Coal Memorial Park, octagonal at its base. With its twin it forms the two chimneys sung in the Tanko Bushi coal-mining song.
A 28-meter steel headframe of 1909 in Tagawa's Coal Memorial Park. Its two head sheaves raised the Ita Shaft's coal, and it is the only steel headframe left in Chikuho.
Completed in 1911 as the Kusano Bank head office at Kurume, Fukuoka, this wooden building with a chidori gable porch was registered in 1999 and is now a museum.
This 1908 stone gate at Kurume, Fukuoka wraps the former Kusano Bank garden in an L shape, its plinth carrying arabesque ironwork. Registered as heritage in 1999.
The largest storehouse at the Kusumori Kawakita Residence in Ukiha, Fukuoka. This early-Meiji building is two-storied on the west and open to the roof on the east.
A detached guest wing at the Kusumori Kawakita Residence in Ukiha, Fukuoka. Built in refined sukiya style, it was the birthplace of art historian Kawakita Michiaki.
A registered building at the Kusumori Kawakita Residence in Ukiha, Fukuoka. Its floorboards bear an 1861 date, but it was likely moved and remodeled in late Meiji.