Meiji
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The product storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. A late-Meiji two-storey dozo, it is the largest on site. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
The side storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. A late-Meiji dozo and the smallest building, it completes the street frontage. A Registered Property.
On Makabe's Takajomachi Street, this merchant property pairs a middle Meiji dwelling with a shopfront rebuilt after the 1923 earthquake. Registered in 2002.
This late-Meiji farmhouse at Iizuka in Makabe, Sakuragawa, was registered in 2003 for its tall frame, glass-banded upper walls and projecting-purlin eaves.
An early-Meiji gatehouse at Iizuka in Makabe, Sakuragawa, registered in 2003: a 17.6-metre street front of zelkova gateway, white plaster and notched boarding.
The Masubuchi Family Residence Main House in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1873 (Meiji 6). It survives as a complete merchant compound — shop, main house, and long gatehouse — preserving the heritage of Makabe, once a thriving cotton-trade town at the foot of Mount Tsukuba. Explore it together with the surrounding Important Preservation District streetscape.
Built in 1873 in the Makabe preservation district of Sakuragawa, Ibaraki, the Masubuchi family shop is a two-story dozo merchant front on the old street.
Attached to the Masubuchi shop in Makabe, Sakuragawa, this 1873 nagayamon is a compact single-story gate about 6.9 meters wide, built of fine zelkova timber.
The Mamiya Family Residence Main House in Takabu, Hitachiomiya City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a Meiji-era wood-framed Japanese-Western fusion home built in 1902. Combining a traditional farmhouse-style two-story wing with a striking three-story Western tower painted in pale green, it stands as a vivid landmark in the historic post town of Takabu-juku and was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2003.
An early Meiji grain store of 11 by 4.5 metres at Hojo in Tsukuba, turned into a concert hall in 2008. Audiences enter the earthen interior on recital days.
A late Meiji document storehouse of 20 square metres at Hojo in Tsukuba, smallest of the registered buildings there, with a plaster medallion over its window.
An early Meiji cooking wing of 37 square metres running east from the dwelling house at Hojo in Tsukuba, with a bath and stores attached. Registered in 2003.
An early Meiji outbuilding of 31 square metres at the north-east corner of the Miyamoto compound in Hojo, Tsukuba: charcoal and miso store north, garage south.
An early Meiji guest wing of 60 square metres at Hojo in Tsukuba, three rooms in restrained sukiya taste, with copper sheeting along the edge of its tiled roof.
An early Meiji gate 2.4 metres wide on the old street of Hojo in Tsukuba, registered together with its plastered wall. Visible from the pavement at any time.
Discover Musashiya Shop in Koga, Ibaraki — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property dating to the mid-Meiji period. Dine on traditional grilled eel inside a black-walled, two-story dozo-zukuri restaurant standing on the former Nikko Kaido post-town street.
An early Meiji earthen-walled sake shop of 231 square meters in Makabe, Sakuragawa, registered in 2004. Its gable roof drops halfway along, and it still trades.
A two-storey earthen-walled grain store on a corner plot in Makabe, Sakuragawa, built before 1902 and registered in 2000. Dressed stone base, boards, plaster above.
A yakuimon gate 2.7 metres across in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Forward purlins carry a boarded soffit, wicket doors pierce the wing walls, and it was listed in 2005.
A merchant house of about 1902 in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its lean-to shopfront gives way to a hipped reception wing and a kitchen wing behind, listed in 2005.