Meiji
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Built in 1876 above the Kishigawa at Okinono in Kainan, Wakayama, Honenji Main Hall is a five-bay Jodo-shu hall registered in 2024 for its dragon carvings.
The Kamigura and detached room of the Misoya Annex in Hashimoto, Wakayama, from the mid-Meiji period, join a storehouse with shop-mark doors to a tatami room.
The main house of the Misoya Annex in Hashimoto, Wakayama, built in 1884 for a kimono shop on the Ise Kaido, has a curved roof and the look of a Kyoto townhouse.
A roadside wall of Wakayama blue-green schist built around 1906 at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan: random rubble, 18 meters long and 1.8 meters high, coping on top.
A small bracket gate of about 1906 at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, roofed in rounded local tiles, with single-board doors and a black plaster side wall.
A late Meiji guest wing on the Kii-ji route below Shishigase Pass in Hidaka, Wakayama, with four rooms in ta-no-ji plan, tsuga columns and original glass screens.
A merchant house of 1903 on Wakaura Meiko-dori, Wakayama City: convex tiled roof, projecting lattice screens, black lime-plaster upper storey. Registered 2007.
A plastered storehouse of about 1905 behind the Wada merchant house in Wakayama City, its lime walls skirted with boarding against Wakaura salt air. Registered 2007.
A wall of about 1905 running 46 metres along a Wakayama City street, stacking local blue-grey schist with roof tiles and earth in varied courses. Registered 2007.