Meiji
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A late Meiji garden gate and wall at the Fujii estate in Nishiwaki, Hyogo: a small yakuimon with stone braces on a dressed-stone base, between garden and entrance.
Discover the Sanda Gakuen Junior High School Main Building, a beautifully preserved 1912 wooden schoolhouse in Hyogo Prefecture. Designed in Stick Style and modeled after England's Eton College, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property continues to function as an active school more than a century after its completion.
An 1886 farmhouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo: 20 metres long under a hip-and-gable roof, plastered to the eaves, with loft windows and a formal entrance on its garden.
An early Meiji storehouse joined to the back of a farmhouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo, entered from the inner room: two storeys, a separate tiled roof, plaster and boards.
An 1886 timber wall enclosing the front garden of a farmhouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo: 11 metres long, its faces finished differently inside and out, with a lattice.
The middle of three early Meiji storehouses on a homestead in Amagasaki, Hyogo: plaster eaves modelled as rafters and a door canopy on curved timber brackets.
A tiny mid-Meiji barn at the end of a row of storehouses in Amagasaki, Hyogo: pan tiles, exposed posts, plaster and boards, one earth-floored room, sharing a wall.
The smallest of three early Meiji storehouses in a row on a homestead in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a twin of the middle store, half a bay shorter, with a barn at its side.
A mid-Meiji two-storey dozo on the eastern edge of the Utsumi estate at Tatsuno, Hyogo. Boarded on two faces, plastered to the eaves on the rest; registered in 2004.
On the old highway west of the main house in Kasai City, Hyogo, this early Meiji tool store of 15 square metres carries a roof set clear of its earthen shell.
East of the main house in Kasai City, Hyogo, this early Meiji storehouse was registered as hard to reproduce: its purlins sit on beams cut to a convex curve.
The front gate and wall of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, a gabled munemon with white-plaster walls. A frog-leg strut supports the ridge, marking it as formal.
The kitchen and well area of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, an L-shaped service block on the road corner where a kitchen wing meets a well wing.
The tool storehouse of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, an early-Meiji plastered dozo with shippo-pattern namako tilework. It is the oldest of the five buildings.
The main house of the Takatsu family, doctors near Himeji since the late Edo period. Built around 1894, it has a rare kara-hafu entrance gable and a former clinic wing.
The garden gate and wall of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, a bracket-arm gate dividing the forecourt from the reception garden. It is the newest of the five.
A mid-Meiji clothing storehouse joined to the Tajika main house in Amagasaki: 2 storeys, 6 by 4.4 metres, white plaster partly clad with charred cedar boards.
A mid-Meiji rice storehouse on the Tajika family's western street front in Amagasaki: 2 storeys, 9.6 by 3.9 metres, varying ridge and windows from its neighbours.
The Tajika family's main house in Nishikoya, Amagasaki: late Edo, remodelled around 1887, 19 by 12 metres, with a loft, black plaster walls and layered roofs.
The Tajika family's gatehouse in Nishikoya, Amagasaki, renewed around 1887: 13 metres long in black plaster, a gateway and wicket door at one end, behind a hedge.