Meiji
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The residence of the Nishioka family, brewers in Makabe, Sakuragawa. This two-story timber main house adjoins the shop and storehouse, and was registered in 2004.
The shop of the Nishioka family compound in Makabe, set back from the street. Much altered outside, it keeps its earthen floor and counting room. Registered 2004.
A two-story clay-walled storehouse at the Nishioka family compound in Makabe. Its eaves and shuttered gable windows shape the garden by the shop. Registered 2004.
The largest storehouse of the Nishioka Honten brewery in Makabe, this clay-walled dozo once held brown rice. Registered in 2001, it is now a gallery space.
The shop of the Nishioka Honten brewery in Makabe, maker of Hananoi sake since 1782, was once the Shimizuya main house. It joined the national register in 2001.
A compact white-rice storehouse of the Nishioka Honten brewery in Makabe. Near-windowless and set against the shop, it was registered in 2001 and is now a gallery.
The Numajiri storehouse in Kaneda, Tsukuba, is a two-story mid-Meiji building (1868-1911), holding farm tools below and documents above, like the rice store.
The Numajiri rice storehouse in Kaneda, Tsukuba, is a two-story early-Meiji granary (1868-1911). Its gable-entry, boarded form is now remodeled as a cafe.
A Meiji-era storehouse of just 21 square metres in Makabe, Sakuragawa City: white lime plaster above, boarding below to shed rain. Registered in 2002 with its inn.
A Meiji koraimon gate at Makabe, Sakuragawa City, registered 2004. Round posts, gabled tiled roof, wing walls each side, a wicket door; street viewing only.
A mid-Meiji merchant house on a T-junction corner in Makabe, Sakuragawa. Its west flank alone is plastered like a storehouse, a fire precaution learned in 1837.
An 1893 earthen storehouse set deep in a Makabe merchant plot. Its ridgepole inscription names the month of building and the master carpenter, a rare dated record.
The Fuchu Homare kamaba in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is an early Meiji earthen building whose raised koshiyane roof vented the steam from rice steamed for sake.
The shikomigura at the heart of the Fuchu Homare brewery in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a two-story earthen hall of 47.5 by 20 meters, largest of its registered buildings.
The 1869 main house of the Fuchu Homare brewery in Ishioka, Ibaraki, turns a fireproofed north wall to the old provincial street and opens a tour of the brewery.
The tsukiya at the Fuchu Homare brewery in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a plain mid-Meiji earthen building of 132 sqm where sake rice was hulled and polished before brewing.
The Fuchu Homare nagayamon in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a small early Meiji timber gate with zelkova posts, said to copy the old checkpoint gate of former Fuchu town.
The Fuchu Homare bunkogura in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a three-story black-plaster storehouse of 1894, its ridge beam naming the carpenter and plasterer who built it.
The old kettle storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. Built in 1904, it held the steaming kettle and recalls a wartime requisition. A Registered Property.
The brewing storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. Built in 1909, this single-storey dozo still ferments the winter mash. A Registered Cultural Property.