Meiji
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A mid-Meiji guest wing at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama: an eight-mat room with alcove and writing bay, and a formal entrance aligned with the front gate. Not open.
A mid-Meiji yakuimon gate with a carved gable ornament and 25 meters of plastered wall, clapboarded outside and lined with boat planks within, at Tsuji Honten.
The largest storehouse at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama: a Meiji-period earthen building grown around an older lean-to, its street gable crossed by 2 drip ledges.
A mid-Meiji sake storehouse at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama with a massive stacked-beam roof frame, now the brewery shop and restaurant, open during business hours.
A mid-Meiji household shrine in the Tsuji Honten garden, Katsuyama: only 0.2 square meters, yet with a karahafu porch, bracket sets, carved struts, double rafters.
Toshoji Temple Shoin Getsusen-in in Yakage, Okayama, is an early Meiji head priest's residence with a tiled roof, lattice gables and its own wall. Registered 2011.
Toshoji Temple Waterway Stone Walls and Stone Bridge in Yakage, Okayama, is a late Meiji stone-lined channel with a granite bridge before the gate. Registered 2011.
Toshoji Temple Gate and Earthen Walls in Yakage, Okayama, are early Meiji plastered walls 75 m long beside the Sanmon and around the priest's house. Registered 2011.
Nishie Family Residence Retirement Quarters, Takahashi: an early Meiji sukiya annex behind the main house, the only one of nine registered as a model of design.
Former stable and menservants' quarters of the Nishie Family Residence, Takahashi: a long early Meiji row of stalls and rooms closing the forecourt. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Book Storehouse, Takahashi: a 23 m² early Meiji storehouse with stepped rain eaves and namako tiling beside the granary. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Tool Storehouse, Takahashi: a large early Meiji store with two doors and namako-tiled gables on the estate's west side. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Miso Storehouse, Takahashi: the smallest of nine, an early Meiji store with a bracket canopy and a butterfly crest. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Gate in Takahashi, Okayama: an early Meiji turret gate with shachi on the ridge and a fine lattice window on its outer face. Registered 2003.
Nishie Family Residence Gate Reception Rooms, Takahashi, Okayama: early Meiji rooms raised on a cliff wall, with railed windows and namako tiles. Registered 2003.
The 1896 stone entrance to the Taikado estate in Kurashiki, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Main Gate raises two granite monoliths 3.6 metres high with timber doors.
About 2 metres high and set east of the great hall, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Bust Pedestal is a granite structure carrying a bust of Nozaki Bukichiro.
Built in 1896 and covering 49 square metres, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Residence bends in an L from the kitchen to the gate and housed the estate staff.
Built in 1896 opposite the pantry, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Storehouse is a 186-square-metre kura with namako tiled walls and a 10-mat room on its ground floor.
Built in 1896 by the front garden in Kurashiki, Nozaki Family Villa Taikado Rickshaw Shed is an 11-square-metre garage, open on the west, that held four rickshaws.