Meiji
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An early Meiji storehouse at the back of the Daitoku plot in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, built for bedding and tableware. Its east gable carries a bracketed pent roof.
The Former Tonoike Kimono Store in Daigo, Ibaraki, is an 1896 merchant storehouse in black lime plaster, with four fireproof shutters on its upper floor.
An 1886 gatehouse at Yoshise in Tsukuba, dated by the ridge tag in its roof space, which also names the carpenter. Deep segai eaves, zelkova doors, a gallery inside.
An early Meiji storehouse on Tsuchiura's old highway, set beside the shop front. Its sugar stock filled the ground floor. Registered in 2016; now a workshop.
A middle Meiji merchant house facing Tsuchiura's old highway, its shop and living wings crossed in a T. Registered in 2016 and open free of charge today.
A small early Meiji storehouse at the back of a Tsuchiura merchant plot, its doors finished in black lime plaster. It held family goods including hina dolls.
A middle Meiji brick storehouse behind a Tsuchiura merchant house, laid in English bond with arched openings. Registered in 2016 and now used as a cafe.
A brick substation of about 1909 in Hitachiota, Ibaraki, serving the power station that first lit Machiya and Ota in 1911; a rare early power relic in the area.
Brick piers 3.8 meters high and a 2.2-meter wall of the late Meiji era in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki, taken down in 2006 and rebuilt by residents in 2015 on a park site.
A three-storey Meiji brick storehouse in Joso, Ibaraki, built by the Gokita family of Kinu River wholesalers, trimmed in over-fired brick and now used for exhibits.
The Kotabe Foundry North Storehouse in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a 13 by 3 ken warehouse of the early Meiji era, filed under industry and registered in 2001.
The Kotabe Foundry South Storehouse in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a 2-storey earthen store of 55 square metres, registered in 2001 as a model of building design.
The Kotabe Foundry Gate in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a timber yakuimon of 3.0 metres, flanked by board and stone fences and registered in 2001 as a cultural property.
Konishi Misegura is an early Meiji shop-storehouse in Yuki, Ibaraki, registered in 2005. Black plaster walls, a low upper floor, no ridge tablet to date it.
A rice store of the middle Meiji era at Iizuka in Makabe, Sakuragawa, registered in 2003. Not a plastered vault but exposed posts and boarded walls, in house form.
Sakairi Family Residence Main House in Tsuji, Ishioka City is an early Meiji thatched farmhouse 21 meters wide, noted for the striped toshimono eaves of its roof.
The one timber building among five storehouses in a Koga merchant compound, dated to the early Meiji era. Registered in 2000 for the joinery of its rooms.
A late Meiji storehouse at the back of the Sakurai plot in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, said to have held pawned goods. Black plaster, worked eaves. Registered in 2004.
An early Meiji merchant house in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, registered in 2004. Its 2nd floor was added around 1921, and only the west gable is plastered against fire.
A mid-Meiji storehouse behind the main house in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. White lime plaster, boards on 3 of its 4 faces, iron shutters upstairs. Registered in 2004.