Meiji
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Kurakazu Family Residence Main House in Yame, Fukuoka, is an 1885 landowner's home of 300 m² with an L-shaped hip-and-gable roof, and was registered in 2018.
Kurakazu Family Residence Storehouse in Yame, Fukuoka, is an 1891 two-storey plastered storehouse on a stone wall facing the main house, registered in 2018.
Kurakazu Family Residence Barn in Yame, Fukuoka, built in 1876, is the oldest of the four registered buildings, with an open earth-floored ground floor.
Kurakazu Family Residence Annex in Yame, Fukuoka, is a 1909 single-storey wing linked to the main house, with its floor cantilevered out over a stone wall.
Sasayama Shrine Lattice Fence in Kurume encloses the main hall for 88 meters. Its 1879 edokiri stone base, cross battens, vertical lattice and light roof, explained.
Sasayama Shrine Middle Gate in Kurume is an 1879 hira-karamon gate carved with two Arima family crests, a triple comma and a gentian wheel. Where to see the details.
Sasayama Shrine Worship Hall in Kurume is an open 1879 hall, five bays by three, with shitomi shutters, an upturned railing and a coved ceiling. How to visit.
Sasayama Shrine Main Hall, built in 1879 in Kurume, folds its three-bay porch under one irimoya roof. See its deep degumi eaves, kaerumata and the best viewpoint.
The Jokyu Soy Sauce Front Zashiki in Fukuoka is an early Meiji reception building said to have lodged troops in 1877. See its alcove room and railed window.
The Jokyu Soy Sauce Rice Storehouse in Fukuoka is a two-storey store of 1871 beside the brewing store, now used for brewing tools. See its copper-roofed doorway.
The Jofukuji Temple Main Gate in Okawa is a plain yakuimon of about 1872, said to reuse Yanagawa Castle gate timber. Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2023.
A gate of about 1872 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, standing where the Hita Kaido is said to have run until early Meiji, as a record of that change.
The main gate of about 1891 on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: a yakuimon whose posts are granite at the front and timber at the back, flanked by a stone wall.
The 1890 main house of the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka: a tall earth-floored hall, two rows of rooms, a jutting reception room and a plastered southwest face.
A 1902 guest pavilion of the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, reached by a corridor over an arched bridge, with fan rafters and a view over the village.
An 1870 storehouse on the Tada estate in Chikuzen, Fukuoka, with namako tile walls and quince-shaped windows with copper shutters, framing the front of the house.
The Chuai Tunnel of 1889, 432 metres long between Kawara and Miyako in Fukuoka, was dug to carry Chikuho coal and has brick portals framed in cut granite.
The largest of three brick miso storehouses facing a Yanagawa canal, roofed with a Western king post truss and bound to its neighbours by one sawtooth brick cornice.
A narrow two-storey townhouse on the old Karatsu Highway in Fukuoka keeps its earthen passage, its three rooms in single file, and a balustrade lacquered deep red.
An 1899 rice store in the northwest corner of the Minamikubota estate in Ukiha, Fukuoka: tall, gable-entry, on stone footings, weatherboarded on its north wall only.