Meiji
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The oldest building on the Minamikubota estate in Ukiha, Fukuoka: an early Meiji storehouse drawn on an 1895 house plan, plastered under its eaves; registered 2012.
A mid-Meiji barn in a corner of the Yoshimura grounds in Fukuoka, the oldest on site, board-clad under a gabled tile roof and made into two rooms after the war.
The gate of the Ryotei Sato villa in Ogori, Fukuoka, a late Meiji gate moved here in 1927, faces the old highway with massive posts and a high ridge above.
Built around 1904 on a silkworm-egg fortune, this Date landmark joins a Western exterior and a semi-octagonal tower with Japanese parlors finished in rare hardwoods.
An 1883 timber county office in Koori, Fukushima, an Important Cultural Property since 1977 and the largest surviving pseudo-Western county office building.
A mid-Meiji storehouse facing the street on the Abe estate in Fukushima City that kept cocoons below and housed workers above, with red tiles and namako walls.
A mid-Meiji two-room guest wing on the Abe estate in Fukushima City, once joined to an earlier main house, with a hip-and-gable south end and bark-edged rails.
A late-Meiji storehouse on the Abe estate in Fukushima City, plastered white up to its eaves with a black shutter, the only store registered as a model of design.
The smallest storehouse on the Abe estate in Fukushima City: a mid-Meiji clay store behind the kitchen, its door and windows outlined in white plaster.
The Amano Family Residence Main House in Odaka, Minamisoma, built in 1911 and altered in 1927, pairs a hipped-and-gabled block with an upward-bowed porch roof.
The Amano Family Residence West Storehouse in Odaka, Minamisoma, is an early Meiji store for household goods, its clay walls packed with through-posts 30 cm apart.
An early Meiji earthen storehouse in Okuma, Fukushima, registered in 2019. Its tiled roof stands on posts clear of the mud walls, keeping rain off and air moving.
A mid-Meiji gate in Okuma, Fukushima, registered in 2019. It is built over the stone bridge across the farmstead channel, so entering and crossing become one step.
A Meiji-era clay-walled storehouse set deep in an inn's grounds in Minamiaizu, Fukushima, its okiyane roof still scarred by the 1934 Tajima fire. Registered 1999.
The Ueno Family Residence Main House is an 1876 earthen-walled townhouse in Kitakata, 313 m² in area, with a lacquered eighteen-mat parlor in its storehouse wing.
The Ueno Family Residence Furnishings Storehouse is an 1876 two-story kura in Kitakata for household goods, entered at its gable end and lined with boards inside.
The Ueno Family Residence Miso Storehouse is a small 1879 earthen storehouse behind the kitchen of a Kitakata townhouse, with an earthen floor and open roof frame.
The Ueno Family Residence Brick Storehouse is a late Meiji two-story kura in Kitakata, laid in English bond with glazed brick, segmental arches and a trussed roof.
The Ueno Family Residence Brick Wall is a late Meiji glazed brick wall in Kitakata, 24 m long and 2.6 m high on the street, with an iron door by a plastered house.
The east storehouse of the Ogai family in Minamisoma, Fukushima, a late Meiji rice store on the old salt road, has namako walls and a family crest in plaster relief.