Meiji

Timber office of 1905 below the No. 1 reservoir on Mount Handa, Okayama: hipped and airy, with yoraku pendants at the eaves and vent grilles based on the city crest.

Hexagonal brick meter house of 1905 on Mount Handa, Okayama, which metered water sent to the city, with a keystone pediment and granite-framed round windows.

Circular reservoir of 1905 beside the No. 1 basin on Mount Handa, Okayama, with a brick-faced concrete wall, wall vents and a central ventilation tower on top.

A Meiji brewer's house in Ushimado, Okayama, registered in 2007: projecting lattices, namako-kabe and black plaster under a tiled hip-and-gable roof. Exterior only.

Early Meiji gatehouse of the Himei doctors' estate in Asakuchi, Okayama: plastered walls, lattice windows and an offset gabled roof on a stone wall. Registered 2015.

Mid-Meiji retaining walls and a stone fence at the Akibagu of Hofukuji, Soja: 3.0 m walls in 3 masonry styles line a long stairway up to the shrine. Registered 2009.

Five identical stone shrines of 1892 in a row on a long stone platform behind the Akibagu sanctuary at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama. Registered in April 2009.

A minimal purification pavilion of 1894 at the Akibagu of Hofukuji, Soja: stone posts, timber arms and a gabled roof over a stone basin cut with an ogee-arched base.

The mid-Meiji worship hall and connecting hall of the Akibagu at Hofukuji, Soja: a 5-bay hall with stacked gables and a rear wing of ceremony and altar rooms.

A mid-Meiji shrine sanctuary at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: a single bay square, just 6.1 square meters, with bracket sets and cloud-dragon carvings. Registered 2009.

The late-Meiji two-story Main Gate of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, facing east before the Buddha Hall: a single-bay gate with bracket sets and a coffered ceiling.

A mid-Meiji study hall joined to the abbot's quarters of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, whose 4.5-mat room has an alcove beam of natural wood. Registered in 2009.

An 1893 two-story storehouse in the Manabe home's northwest corner on Manabeshima, with namako tiling and tiles set flat or upright by position. Registered 2006.

An early Meiji wooden gate before the Manabe main house on Manabeshima: 3.2 m wide, very shallow, once missing its northeast post, with a colored-earth front wall.

Dated by its ridge tag to 1870, this hip-and-gable island house on Manabeshima, Kasaoka, keeps an earth-floored doma to the east and a formal room facing the street.

Built in 1874 in the corner of an old island homestead on Manabeshima, Kasaoka, this plastered warehouse and barn held grain paid as tax and the household firewood.

Marumoto Family Residence Reception Wing, Okayama: a mid-Meiji guest room of 61 square metres amid brewery stores, its roof hip-and-gable at one end only.

Built in 1872 in Wake, Okayama, this attic-storey house shows an early local two-tier roof with namako-kabe plaster and log-carried eaves. Registered 1999; private.

Mizote Family Residence No. 2 Storehouse in Hayashima is a 1904 strongroom with diagonal tile facing, glass cabinets for tableware and scrolls, and planed timbers.

Two of four slow sand filter beds built for Okayama's waterworks in 1905, each about 34 meters square, with concrete-block walls and granite rims. Registered 2005.