Meiji
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The Akagi Family Residence Wall Two in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a late-Meiji timber wall, 40 m long, on the south of the estate, finished in boards and a bare clay coat.
A tiny early Meiji well house by the front gate of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo: a copper roof, a stone well curb and a curved karahafu gable; registered 2012.
A tall two-story Meiji barn and a gate with a sliding door and wicket on the west side of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, registered together in 2012; not open.
An early Meiji gate 1.3 m wide before the main entrance of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo, with a swelling copper roof and part see-through walls; registered 2012.
A mid-Meiji detached guest wing at the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo: two rooms, a corner veranda, and a finely worked railing and transoms; registered in 2012.
Inaoka Family Residence Main Building, Kasai, Hyogo: a late Meiji brewer's house that doubled as the brewery office, with mushiko windows over the tsushi loft.
Early Meiji two-storey barn joined to the main house of a former headman's estate in Amagasaki: earth-floored work space below, two reception rooms above. Private.
A small early Meiji annex on a former headman's estate in Amagasaki: one six-mat room with a tokonoma, a stair to the gatehouse, a lattice window. Registered 2011.
Early Meiji single-storey storehouse in the corner of a former headman's garden in Amagasaki, with namako tile walls and a plaster door bearing a war-fan motif.
Early Meiji two-storey front gate of a former headman's estate in Amagasaki, with zelkova board doors, a wicket on each side and roofs stepped at its sides.
A 1900 townhouse on Himeji's Nozato road with a swelling tiled roof, lattice front and black-plastered upper floor with mokkō windows. Registered 2014; exterior.
A 1907 tool storehouse at the back of a Himeji townhouse plot, 14.5 m long, with a boarded dado and two rooms that each have their own door. Registered 2014.
An 1899 townhouse beside the 1925 shop of a Himeji kimono store, with lower eaves, plastered rafters and slatted upper windows. Registered in 2014; exterior only.
A small storehouse of about 1899 behind a Himeji kimono merchant's house, with a tiled dado, a stepped fireproof door and a pickle store attached. Registered 2014.
An 1892 storehouse on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: 14 metres long, split into a miso store and a tool store, under a separate okiyane roof. Registered 2011.
A large farmhouse of about 1875 in Tanto, Toyooka: a thatched hip-and-gable roof under slate, earthen floor to the west, formal rooms to the east. Registered 2011.
An 1884 storehouse for the household's own rice on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka, with a waterwheel set under its east canopy. Registered in 2011; not open.
An 1879 two-storey storehouse on the east edge of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka, its southern ridge a step lower; the oldest storehouse there. Registered 2011.
An 1886 storehouse for unhulled rice on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka, with an L-shaped two-storey forebuilding under one sweeping roof. Registered in 2011.
The only Meiji building among the nine, this two-storey annex north-west of the main house holds a small room, bath and privy, and links to the house by a corridor.