Meiji

A Meiji-period reception room in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. Its record gives two storeys and one; built to match the stores, it now serves as a canteen.

A Southern Song painting on one scroll at Kuonji in Yamanashi, recorded as having once formed a single set with two other scrolls held elsewhere today.

A Meiji-period timber Jizo hall at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Its own front bays over there are each fitted in quite different ways today.

Two thatched buildings standing in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Ninety whole years separate the front one there from the rear one even now.

A Meiji-period office at Yoshino, Kagoshima, Japan. Once a Shimazu family gold mine office elsewhere, it sets arches and clapboard under Japanese roofs.

A Meiji-period hydroelectric station building in Hioki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Of stone, with an octagonal tower, it bears the Shimazu family crest.

A Meiji-period shopfront storehouse in Tainai, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Three black windows face the street, and one thick post at its centre carries the ridge.

A Meiji-period town house at Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Entered at its gable, it sets four rooms in a row along a through passage, beams shown above.

A Meiji-period main house in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. A ridge tablet over there gives the name of the carpenter who had built it even so even today.

Built in 1911 as Sojiji moved from Noto, the Sojiji Karishinden enshrined the founder's tablets and links by stair and corridor to other halls. Registered 2023.

A timber main house in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Classed as Edo, its own year field over there nonetheless still reads Meiji even so now.

A Meiji-period assembly hall in Chiba Prefecture. Its own reading there differs between the national record and the city's very own one even now today.

Three Meiji-period townhouse buildings in Osaka Prefecture. Its own name says former while its own reading field there leaves that word out completely.

Kasuga Shrine Moshiden in Bungotakada, Oita, is a 1905 offering hall one bay square, fitted with glass doors and set between the worship hall and main hall.

A Meiji-period storehouse at a sake brewer's in Taketa, Oita Prefecture, Japan. Small tiled eaves stand over its street doorway and window; rice was kept below.

Meiji-period stone waterway works in Ogawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Its own date field over there carries both the building and the two repairs now.

A Southern Song tea bowl in Tokyo, known as the Inaba Tenmoku. Another bowl of the very same name here was listed on exactly the same day as this one.

A Meiji merchant house facing the old highway at Kaemoncho in Tochigi, its gable end met by a hipped roof above a projecting eave. Listed as heritage in 2008.

A Meiji storehouse west of its neighbour on the Abuden Miso plot in Tochigi, its plastered north wall running on into the next building. Listed in 2004.

A single-storey Meiji house on the south side of the Abuden Miso plot in Tochigi, built as a retirement residence for the third Denbei. Listed in 2004.