Meiji
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The smallest of ten registered structures at the Yano Family Residence in Itami: a late Meiji one-storey grain storehouse with a lattice window. Registered in 2024.
A late Meiji two-storey room between two storehouses at the Yano Family Residence in Itami, with a lattice window and a former tatami room. Registered in 2024.
A late Meiji rice storehouse at the Yano Family Residence in Itami with an okiyane roof set over its earthen walls and an earthen fire door. Registered in 2024.
A late Meiji charcoal barn at the Yano Family Residence in Itami, with a service door on the street and a pantile roof unlike the storehouses. Registered 2024.
A 1905 nagayamon gatehouse at the Yano Family Residence in Itami, with a single-plank cedar door, a side gate and an eight-mat tea room inside. Registered in 2024.
A 99 m² late Meiji barn at the Yano Family Residence in Itami, Hyogo, divided into a pickling shed, storage barn, goat pen and toilet. Registered in 2024.
A late Meiji roofed wall running 30 meters west from the gatehouse of the Yano Family Residence in Itami to frame an imposing compound. Registered in 2024.
The Odagaki Shoten Workshop is an early Meiji work hall in Tamba-Sasayama with a tall frame and roof dormer, opening straight off the floor of the main shop.
The Odagaki Family Residence Tea Room is a late Meiji tea room in Tamba-Sasayama with a crawl-in door and four-and-a-half-mat room, now the breakfast room of Mameya.
The Odagaki Family Residence Storehouse is a mid-Meiji earthen store in Tamba-Sasayama, the only Odagaki building roofed in hongawara tiles, with a planed interior.
The Odagaki Family Residence Tatami Room is a late Meiji six-mat sukiya-style room in Tamba-Sasayama, plastered to the eaves and reached from the shop by a corridor.
An 1893 storehouse on the Hirao estate frontage in Morio, Toyooka, moved here in early Showa: white plaster to the street and a red-tiled pent roof on the inside.
A mid-Meiji rice storehouse southeast of the Hirao gatehouse in Morio, Toyooka: 2 storeys of white plaster on cut stone, matching the storehouses along the front.
A late Meiji shed for hearth ash in the Hirao estate, Morio, Toyooka: 1.5 by 1.3 metres, clay-walled with even the posts buried in clay, open at the front.
A mid-Meiji gate at the east end of the Hirao estate frontage in Morio, Toyooka: a former firewood shed, half storeroom and half gateway with double doors.
A late Meiji fire-pump shed and boundary fence in the Hirao estate, Morio, Toyooka: double doors across the front, a fire-water pond beside it, 3.6 metres of fence.
The 1896 main house of the Hirao estate in Morio, Toyooka: 348 m² over 2 storeys, a farmhouse form on Western roof trusses, with an earth floor and formal rooms.
A mid-Meiji farm shed in the northwest corner of the Hirao estate, Morio, Toyooka: 6 bays and 2 storeys, open to the yard and to the fields, with a service gate.
An 1887 storehouse for tableware northwest of the Hirao main house in Morio, Toyooka: 2 storeys, floating roof, and two hooded windows offset on the north wall.
A late Meiji retirement house behind the Hirao main house in Morio, Toyooka: a single storey of 94 m² with an alcoved main room at the garden end, renovated in 2004.