Meiji
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An early Meiji two-story storehouse on a Hashimoto estate in Wakayama, gabled with its entrance in the north end: a framed opening closed by one heavy sliding door.
An early Meiji guest wing behind the main house in Hashimoto, Wakayama, with three tatami rooms set in an L and a roof ending hip-and-gable, hipped and gabled.
An early-Meiji storehouse on the northwest corner of the Sakabe estate in Fuchu, Wakayama City: white plaster, a vertical-board base and a tiled okiyane gable roof.
Built in the early Meiji period and moved from Inami in early Shōwa, the Sasano Family Residence Detached Room in Gobo has a 10-mat room with hemlock posts.
Jokiin Kyakuden on Koyasan is an early Meiji guest hall of 361 square metres, keeping an Edo-period plan with a raised dais room. Registered 13 March 2025.
Jokiin Haiden on Koyasan, a hall of about 1910 moved from another temple to face a war memorial tower, carries curved gables front and rear. Registered 2025.
A two-storey Meiji-era storehouse with a floating tiled roof, white plaster walls and a timber-clad base on a shrine family's homestead in Wakayama. Registered 2013.
On Okinoshima above the Kitan Strait, an 1872 stone lighthouse by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton. One of Japan's earliest Western-style beacons, still in service.
The 1887 main house of the Nakasuji branch family in Wasa, Wakayama: a 205 sq m single-storey home prized for deep beams and a cherry-wood veranda. Registered 1998.
A gatehouse of about 1887 facing the road on the Nakasuji estate in Wasa, Wakayama City, with a lower store attached; plaster and clapboard run unbroken.
An 1887 service building with toilet, bath and store north of the Nakasuji gatehouse in Wasa, Wakayama City, its roof set just below the store's. Registered 1998.
A south-facing early Meiji farmhouse in Nanayama, Kainan, once thatched and now tiled: a timber single-storey house with a doma and a four-room plan. Private home.
The Hashimoto Church Former Chapel in Wakayama, registered in 2005, is a Meiji farmhouse moved from Yoshino in 1900 whose earthen floor became the chapel.
The Hashimoto new drawing room in Gobo is a small two-story timber reception house, said to have been built for a bride's arrival around 1912. Registered 2020.
Hatsuzakura's later-Meiji igura adjoins its brewing hall, the two forming a long wall that preserves the streetscape of Katsuragi's once-thriving sake trade.
Hatsuzakura's early-Meiji shikomi-gura runs sixteen bays north to south, the oldest and largest of its halls and still the working heart of a brewing town.
In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Main Gate is a single-bay udegimon of about 1909, standing atop a castle-like stone wall. Now registered.
In Iwade, Wakayama, the mid-Meiji Fukuda Family Residence Earthen Wall runs about 41.5 m over precise stone footings with a washed-aggregate face. Now registered.
In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Barn of 1878 is the estate's oldest building, a part-two-story timber structure with lean-to eaves. Now registered.
In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Detached Room of 1903 is a six-mat guest room with a tokonoma, reached by a covered passage. Now registered.