Meiji
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The Sato Family Residence Main House in Senmaya, Iwate, is a two-storey house of 1901 with a hipped-roof porch, a zelkova door and a granite step, open to visitors.
An early Meiji two-story clay storehouse behind the Sendaiya house in Tono, with walls thickening toward the ground, stepped doors and white-and-black plaster.
An 1892 clay storehouse for unhulled rice at Sendaiya in Tono: 9.6 by 5.7 m, a two-level south room and a north half open to the roof, and a namako-kabe tiled base.
An 1897 warehouse closing the north end of the Sendaiya lot in Tono: 17 m long, a roof stepping down at the north end, rough clay okabe walls and three compartments.
An 1882 townhouse on Tono's Chuo-dori with a 9.5-ken front joining the original house and a former inn, and rooms in a single line from shop to living room.
An 1888 two-story clay storehouse facing the Sendaiya courtyard in Tono, with doors and a window on the south and black plaster on its eaves band, openings and base.
The Yokoya Sake Brewery Rice-Steaming House in Senmaya, Iwate, is a late Meiji timber workshop for steaming sake rice, with a big ridge vent and an 11-metre span.
The Yokoya Sake Brewery Koji Room in Senmaya, Iwate, is a stone koji house of about 1902, with a rock-faced granite base, Shiogama tuff above and a cornice.
The Yokoya Sake Brewery Front Storehouse in Senmaya, Iwate, is a 1902 earthen-walled storage kura, 41 metres long, at the centre of a U-shaped brewery plan.
The Yokoya Sake Brewery Tank Shed in Senmaya, Iwate, built in 1899, is the oldest building on the site built for brewing: a tall clapboard shed on a stone base.
The Yokoya Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse in Senmaya, Iwate, is a 1902 earthen-walled brewing hall, 44 metres long, with a yeast-starter room and brewing floor.
The Yokoya Sake Brewery East Storehouse in Senmaya, Iwate, is a 1902 single-storey kura, 44 metres long, once used to store and filter sake and now hosting concerts.
The Yokoya Sake Brewery Bottling Factory in Senmaya, Iwate, began in 1881 as the village office and was later moved and reused as the plant for bottling sake.
Completed in 1886, the Former Ibigawa Railway Bridge spans 325.1 metres on five wrought-iron trusses designed by C.A.W. Pownall. It is still crossed on foot, free.
Rebuilt in 1907 and designated an Important Cultural Property in 1966, the Yoshijima Residence in Takayama is known for the beam lattice above its earth floor.
The Isaji Family Residence Storehouse in Mitake, Gifu, is a 2-storey early Meiji rice store whose earthen walls are trimmed with white plaster at openings and eaves.
The late Meiji to Taisho gate and wall of the Imao estate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, registered in 2007, a yakui-mon with wickets and a long white-plastered wall.
The Kasami Shrine Offering Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1910 gabled hall 11 meters wide whose raised, recessed center faces the sanctuary. Registered in 2008.
Standing on Ichinomachi Street in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu Prefecture, the Kaba Sake Brewery Main Building was rebuilt in 1906 after a great fire by relocating an older Wada family townhouse from a nearby village. Its eleven-ken-long lattice facade anchors one of central Japan's most beautiful historic streetscapes, and it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2007. The building still serves as the working shop and residence of the Kaba Sake Brewery, founded in 1704.
Standing along Ichinomachi-dōri in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu Prefecture, the Kaba Shuzōjō Sodegura is a two-story Meiji-era sake warehouse built in 1906. Part of the Kaba family's brewery (founded in 1704), this white-plastered dozō with its vertical wood lap-siding is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 2007 and a defining element of one of Japan's most beloved traditional townscapes.