Meiji
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Kuroda Seiuemon Shoten Southwest Corner Storehouse, Miki: a large early Meiji store with a trapezoid plan, a namako tile base and an earth-floored workshop.
Kuroda Seiuemon Shoten Southeast Corner Storehouse, Miki: an early Meiji corner store whose ridge is shifted so its north gable rises behind the east store's roof.
Kuroda Seiuemon Shoten West Storehouse, Miki: an early Meiji storehouse 18.3 m long, the largest on the premises, its earth-floored ground floor partly open.
Kuroda Seiuemon Shoten East Storehouse, Miki: an early Meiji storehouse 10.9 m long, split into two rooms on each floor, each with its own door. Registered in 2019.
Kuroda Seiuemon Shoten Miso Storehouse, Miki: a 14 m² mid-Meiji store attached to the main house, with an earth-floored miso room and a canopy on heavy brackets.
Kuroda Seiuemon Shoten South Storehouse, Miki: an early Meiji storehouse 9.0 m long whose rooms held household goods, books and records, and firewood and charcoal.
The Kobe Museum of Literature occupies a brick chapel of 1904 built for Kwansei Gakuin, with a pointed-arch gable and corner tower, in Oji Park, Kobe.
Goshobo Dozo, an 1890 earthen-walled storehouse at Arima Onsen in Kobe, once held tea utensils beside a tea house. Registered in 2021, it is now a craft gallery.
Goshobo Honkan at Arima Onsen in Kobe is a late-Meiji timber inn building above the Takigawa, extended in 1931 and registered in 2021. Day bathing opens part of it.
The north wall of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, runs about 30 metres. Its late-Meiji brick core has a scraped-mortar face and a tiled top.
The 1911 main house of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property with a broad tiled irimoya roof.
The sunagura storehouse of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, is a plastered two-storey dozo of about 1904, now a Registered Property.
The barn of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, is a long single-storey timber building of the late Meiji era, now a Registered Property.
The west stone wall of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, runs about 50 metres of late-Meiji granite, laid five courses high with capstones.
The gate of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, is a late-Meiji timber structure with a tiled gable roof, twin doors and a side wicket door.
Nishiwaki's former Fujii residence kept clothing in this late Meiji dozo of 79 square metres, split inside by a thick wall into halves framed two different ways.
At Nishiwaki's former Fujii residence, a 2.5-metre munamon gate and 50 metres of tiled wooden wall face the public road, registered in 2015 and free to view.
A late Meiji clay-walled rice storehouse at the Fujii estate in Nishiwaki, Hyogo, with washout and plaster walls, a board-clad south face and a board-lined interior.
The 1890 main house of the Fujii estate in Nishiwaki, Hyogo: nine rooms open on three sides and a transom carved with Osaka's iron Tenjin Bridge. Registered 2013.
The late Meiji south side gate and wall of the Fujii estate in Nishiwaki, Hyogo: a 4.6-meter wall-gate and a wall about 4 meters high that runs west for 39 meters.