Meiji

明治

Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Meiji period (1868 – 1912). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

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Kurakazu Family Residence Main House
Fukuoka 明治
Kurakazu Family Residence Main House

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
Fukuoka 明治
Kurakazu Family Residence Storehouse

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
Fukuoka 明治
Kurakazu Family Residence Barn

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
Fukuoka 明治
Kurakazu Family Residence Annex

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
Fukuoka 明治
Sasayama Shrine Lattice Fence

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
Fukuoka 明治
Sasayama Shrine Middle Gate

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
Fukuoka 明治
Sasayama Shrine Worship Hall

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
Fukuoka 明治
Sasayama Shrine Main Hall

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.

Jokyu Soy Sauce Front Zashiki
Fukuoka 明治
Jokyu Soy Sauce Front Zashiki

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.

Jokyu Soy Sauce Rice Storehouse
Fukuoka 明治
Jokyu Soy Sauce Rice Storehouse

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.

Jofukuji Temple Main Gate
Fukuoka 明治
Jofukuji Temple Main Gate

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.

Tada Family Residence Rear Gate
Fukuoka 明治
Tada Family Residence Rear Gate

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.

Tada Family Residence Front Gate
Fukuoka 明治
Tada Family Residence Front Gate

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.

Tada Family Residence Main House
Fukuoka 明治
Tada Family Residence Main House

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.

Tada Family Residence Detached House and Connecting Corridor
Fukuoka 明治
Tada Family Residence Detached House and Connecting Corridor

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.

Tada Family Residence Front Storehouse
Fukuoka 明治
Tada Family Residence Front Storehouse

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.

Chuai Tunnel
Fukuoka 明治
Chuai Tunnel

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.

Tsurumiso Namikura Minamito
Fukuoka 明治
Tsurumiso Namikura Minamito

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.

Hakoshimake Jutaku Omoya
Fukuoka 明治
Hakoshimake Jutaku Omoya

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.

Minamikubota Family Residence Rice Storehouse
Fukuoka 明治
Minamikubota Family Residence Rice Storehouse

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.