Meiji
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The Myokyoji Rokusha Tennosha Yomori Tennosha Shrine at Saijo Inari in Okayama is an 1895 shrine, second in a row of six, its veranda carried on brackets.
Salt money built this 1891 house in Kojima. Six columns carry an open upper verandah in colonial style, a rare survival among Okayama's Meiji Western buildings.
The smallest of six buildings at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, this household store links to the parlor and is floored in tatami above. Registered 2024.
An early-Meiji dozo at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, plastered to the eaves and pairing an open rice store with a household strongroom. Registered 2024.
On the Oda River's west bank in Ibara, Okayama, the 1882 shop and main house of Yamanari Sake Brewery shows a long plastered Meiji frontage. Registered in 2024.
The largest of six listed buildings at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, this brewing hall is built around a sealed malt room. Registered in 2024.
The larger of two brewing halls at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, this early-Meiji storehouse still fills its tanks each winter. Registered in 2024.
A torii of fired Bizen stoneware at the entrance of Yuga Shrine, Kurashiki, dated by inscription to 1894 and about 4.7m tall. Registered 2024; under repair in 2026.
The stone steps and walls of Ryujoin in Tamano, Okayama, from the end of the Edo period (1830–1867), bound the hillside temple grounds below its bell tower gate.
The last potter's homestead in Naha's Tsuboya district, with a 22.7m nine-chamber climbing kiln. Designated in 2002; part of the site opens Fri to Sun and holidays.
A red-tiled house of a family of Ryukyu court ship captains on tiny Geruma Island, with its kitchen under the main roof, a hinpun screen and an eave-high stone wall.
A wealthy farming family's walled estate in Kitanakagusuku, Okinawa: main house, guest wing, barn, granary and stone pigpens, designated on reversion day in 1972.
Izena Island homestead of a family said to descend from King Sho En's uncle: a 1906 main house and guest wing in stone walls, designated in 1977, free to visit.
Arakaki Family Residence Stone Wall in Naha is a random-coursed limestone wall of about 1896 enclosing three sides of the plot for 58 metres, finest at its entrance.
Arakaki Family Residence East Pond in Naha is a stone pond of about 1896: a 2.8 by 0.8 metre basin cut into a 7 metre run of limestone walling east of the house.
Arakaki Family Residence Hinpun in Naha is a limestone screen of about 1896 set between house and road, 3.6 metres long and 1.7 metres high with a tapering profile.
Arakaki Family Residence Furu in Naha is a cut-limestone pigsty and toilet of about 1896, 6 metres by 2 metres, in three bays under a row of three stone arches.
Arakaki Family Residence South Pond in Naha is a small pond of about 1896 by the house door, an irregular polygon of natural limestone lined with plaster.
A 1907 Ryukyuan house moved from central Ishigaki in 2008, with four front rooms in a row and a corner entrance under deep eaves. Why it was registered; visiting.
A late-Meiji well in a corner of an Ishigaki farmstead, about 90 cm across and 10 m deep, with a curb of four coral-stone pieces, said to predate the 1911 house.