Meiji

Sato Family Residence Front Gate in Makabe, Sakuragawa City is an early Meiji yakuimon 2.5 meters wide, with carved gegyo pendants and inlaid umeki on its posts.

A late Meiji yakuimon gate at the east end of Kamijuku-dori in Makabe, Sakuragawa, the Suzuki Family Residence Front Gate has a gabled roof and 2.4 metre opening.

An early Meiji gatehouse at Furushiro in Makabe, Sakuragawa, the Suzuki Brewery Nagayamon Gate covers 64 square metres beneath a deeply eaved hipped tiled roof.

The timber wing behind the storehouses of a kimono fabric wholesaler in Yuki, Ibaraki: two tatami rooms of about 1883, one holding the family altar. Registered 2014.

A small sleeve storehouse of 1883 standing gable-end to the street beside the shop of a former kimono fabric wholesaler in Yuki, Ibaraki. Registered in 2014.

A tall two-story shop storehouse of about 1883 facing west onto the old merchant street of Yuki, Ibaraki, with a black plaster cornice at the eaves. Registered 2014.

The Suzuki Boseki Main House in northern Yuki, Ibaraki, is a registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, built in 1906 alongside its companion storefront warehouse. Two surviving ridge tags record its construction details, and the building forms part of one of the Kanto region's finest surviving Meiji-era merchant streetscapes.

The Suzuki Boseki Misegura in Yuki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a Meiji-era shop-storehouse built in 1906 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property. Its unusual asymmetric roof — hipped on the right and gabled on the left — reflects the prosperity of Yuki as a silk-trading town famed for Yuki-tsumugi. Still in active use as the head office of Suzuki Boseki Co., Ltd., it embodies the principle of living heritage preservation.

At the rear of a merchant plot on Kujiragaoka ridge in Hitachiota, this storehouse of about 1908 has a burnished black plaster front and a torii-shaped door frame.

A single-story range of 1875 behind the family shop at Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its alcove, writing bay and open veranda survive; read as the original guest rooms.

A two-story timber shop of 1875 at Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its L-shaped earth floor, counter and eaves canopy survive; registered in 2002, viewable from the road.

A Meiji shop on a Makabe crossroads in Sakuragawa City, registered in 2002. Hipped roof, rendered walls, deep canopy, and a ground floor the city leases to traders.

Facing Kamijuku-dori in Makabe, this clay-walled storehouse of 1908 covers 80 square metres and shows one small window high in its white plastered gable wall.

Standing on Kamishuku-dōri in the historic town of Makabe (Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki Prefecture), the Tsukamoto Family Residence Gate is a wooden yakuimon built in 1907. Its gabled pantile roof and 2.8 m frontage form an integral part of the streetscape alongside the family's shop storehouse, earthen storehouse, and black plank fence. It was listed as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2004.

A mid-Meiji two-storey storehouse on Makabe's old main street in Ibaraki, registered in 2000, built as a document store with double-leaf doors and now storing tea.

Registered in 2022, the Tomita Family Residence Main House is an early Meiji farmhouse in the granite village of Ogoto in Kasama, Ibaraki, with crested nail covers.

Nakazawa Shoten Shop Storehouse and Main House, Yuki City, is a late Meiji misegura registered in 2005. Built as a retirement villa, 4 ken wide, with a 14-mat room.

The Nakamura main house at Makabe, Sakuragawa, is an early-Meiji reception hall deep in a walled estate, its innermost room holding a full shoin alcove and shelves.

The Nakamura document storehouse at Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a Meiji clay vault that stacks three low floors on just 26 square metres to guard family papers from fire.

The Nakamura yakuimon and wall at Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a Meiji gabled gate with a 25-metre wall, registered for its contribution to the historic streetscape.