Meiji

A 2-storey late Meiji storehouse in Mizusawa with a floating roof, namako tile-and-plaster walls, and a family crest and kote-e plaster relief on its north gable.

A late Meiji town house on Setamai's old highway in Sumita, Iwate: rooms strung along an earth-floored passage, railed upstairs guest rooms, registered in 2017.

A 1909 earthen storehouse behind the annex in Setamai, Sumita, Iwate: a gabled okiyane roof on a king post truss, and shuttered windows that switch walls by floor.

The smallest Kanno building: a 1900 storehouse on the south side of the Setamai plot in Iwate, fully plastered with a hachimaki band and a half loft over one end.

An 1899 storehouse at the east end of the Kanno plot in Setamai, Iwate, the largest, joining two kura under one okiyane with Japanese framing and a king post truss.

A 1909 former book and ledger storehouse facing the courtyard of the Kanno house in Setamai, Iwate, set on a stone base with black plaster around its upper window.

A 1910 hip-and-gable wing east of the Kanno main house in Setamai, Iwate, built for silkworms: a low joist-ceiled ground floor under matching upstairs rooms.

At Tono Furusato Village, the Former Kikuchi Residence (Oono-don) is an L-shaped Nanbu magariya where a family lived with its horses, a model early-Meiji farmhouse.

A Meiji-period magariya of 267 sq m, moved from Ohasama to Tono Furusato Village in 1991. Its rooms were rearranged in the local Tono sequence at that time.

Built in 1897 to a Ministry of Finance standard design, this Ichinoseki tobacco office keeps its wavy gable board and now opens free of charge as a local museum.

Yanagita Kunio lodged here while gathering the legends of Tono Monogatari. Registered in 2023, the inn joins a Tono townhouse to a later, grander guest wing.

On the Takano family grounds in Mizusawa, Iwate, this late-Meiji plank storehouse shows dropped-in board walls and a lobed openwork panel, registered in 2024.

The 1908 villa of the Nanbu family, former lords of Morioka, has a front that is Japanese on one side and Western on the other, and is now a community centre annex.

Residence No. 1 of the army remount depot at Rokuhara in Kanegasaki, Iwate, a field officers' house of about 1911, has a weatherboarded front and two entrances.

Residence No. 3 of the army remount depot at Rokuhara in Kanegasaki, Iwate, built in 1911, shares the brick base, weatherboarding and sash windows of its neighbours.

Residence No. 2 of the army remount depot at Rokuhara in Kanegasaki, Iwate, built in 1911, is a plainer officers' house with Japanese rooms on the south.

The first main building of the latitude observatory at Mizusawa, Iwate, built in 1900 as one of six world stations for latitude work, is now a memorial hall.

The zenith telescope room of the Mizusawa latitude observatory in Iwate, built in 1899 in steel, has a roof that slides on rails to open over its stone pier.

The target pier and shelter of the Mizusawa latitude observatory in Iwate, built in 1900 to calibrate its zenith telescope, pair a brick pier with a timber shelter.

The Sato Family Residence Small Storehouse in Senmaya, Iwate, is a small 1902 kura with namako-kabe on its street side and pebbly render facing the garden.