Meiji
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A mid-Meiji stone well at Iyoki in Uchiko, Ehime, registered in 2011: four granite blocks in a curb 1.3 meters across, under a small tiled roof. Private land.
An 1894 farmhouse at Iyoki in Uchiko, Ehime, registered in 2011: a tiled hipped roof, a low tsushi half storey, and formal zashiki rooms. Private home, closed.
A mid-Meiji storehouse at Iyoki in Uchiko, Ehime, registered in 2011: 9.9 by 5.0 meters, plastered walls, bare timber eaves. Privately owned and closed.
Kokon-so, a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Shikokuchuo City, Ehime Prefecture, is a refined wooden residence originally built around the end of the Meiji era as a secondary villa of an old family in former Kawanoe Village, then carefully relocated to its current site in Kamibun-cho during the late 1950s to mid-1960s. Its three formal rooms aligned in a row and its distinctive budo-dana (grape trellis) ceiling above the gallery corridor exemplify the high craftsmanship of late Meiji Japanese residential architecture.
Visit the Sasaki Sake Brewery Main Building, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Tobe Town, Ehime. Built around 1908, this Meiji-era sake house preserves the streetscape of a once-thriving mountain highway village in Shikoku.
Sasaki Sake Brewery Brick Chimney rises 20 meters at Sozu in Tobe, Ehime. A late Meiji stack whose corbelled crown flares like a capital. Registered in 2004.
A timber merchant house of about 1886 facing a Shikoku pilgrim road in Shikokuchuo, Ehime. Registered in 2003. Look up for the fish-and-wave ridge tile.
A one-bay timber gate of about 1886 joining a sake brewer's house in Shikokuchuo, Ehime. Registered in 2003. Its cloud-shaped ridge tiles match the house.
An 1884 shop and dwelling of the Suenaga shipping agents at Nagahama in Ozu, Ehime, registered in 2003 for its black lime walls, namako tiling and moulded corbels.
A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Niihama, Ehime: an 1901 Sumitomo Bank branch by Noguchi Magoichi's new office, keeping its brick vault and iron grilles.
Senba Family Residence Main House, a farmhouse of 1900 in Matsuyama, Ehime, was listed in 2025. Its zashiki pairs hemlock posts with kumiko lattice. Not open.
Senba Family Residence Garden Gate and Wall in Matsuyama, Ehime, is a one-bay yakuimon of about 1900 with shachi ridge tiles. Listed in 2025. Not open to visitors.
The Tsuzuki Liquor Store and Main House of 1887 stands on the street in Oda, Uchiko, Ehime: an earthen-walled shop-house with paired wing walls and lattice doors.
An early Meiji two-storey earthen storehouse behind a headman's house in Ozu, Ehime. Vertical boarding and a thickened plaster band shield its earth walls.
Built in 1905 and moved here in 1980, this small hip-and-gable house in Kumakogen, Ehime, is the only tiled roof among five registered buildings. Listed in 2003.
Built in 1879, the largest of five registered buildings at Kumakogen, Ehime: a four-room farmhouse of 149 square metres under a deep thatched roof. Listed in 2003.
A small hall of 1898 in Kumakogen, Ehime, three ken square under a pyramidal roof, its coffered ceiling painted with local plants. Used by pilgrims. Listed in 2003.
An 1870 granary in Kumakogen, Ehime, its plastered two-storey box roofed with thatch set clear above the walls rather than resting on them. Registered in 2003.
The Miyauchi Family Residence Retirement House of about 1912 stands behind the main house in Iyo City, Ehime. Listed in 2018 as a model of design, it is closed.
A three-bay hall of 1909 on the middle terrace at Meisekiji in Seiyo, Ehime, carved over seven years by a father and son from Ikata with dragons, hares and cranes.