Meiji

Built in 1906 beside the Seto irrigation channel in Hida-Furukawa, this two-storey earthen storehouse kept the Kaba Shuzojo brewery's records safe from fire.

The Uedaya main house faces the old Nakasendo in Ochiai-juku. Its early-Meiji upper floor, thrust out on beams above latticed windows, marks a post-town official's home.

This 1904 dozo storehouse stands beside the Uedaya main house on the old Nakasendo, its street wall finished in sea-cucumber tiling below and black lime plaster above.

Behind the Uedaya shopfront in Ochiai-juku, this early-Meiji detached wing faces the garden, its raised parlor framing the view above a thick-walled miso cellar below.

The Kawai Family Residence West Storehouse in Gujo, Gifu, is a 2-storey storehouse of 1885 with a namako tile-lattice east wall and a decorated lintel over its door.

The Kawai Family Villa Storehouse in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu, is a Meiji storehouse of 1883 to 1897 inside a 1941 house, with a black plaster crest on its inner door.

A 1904 plastered rice storehouse in Ono, Gifu, set on a tall cobblestone base after the 1896 flood. Registered in 2018; its walls are visible from the lane any day.

A long 1905 storehouse in Ono, Gifu: two stores under one roof, one wagoya-framed, one with sloping beams, and a north wall of hooded windows seen from the lane.

The oldest building on the Kitaokada estate in Ono, Gifu: an early Meiji annex with a tea room and writing alcove, the only one older than the 1891 Nobi quake.

Pseudo-Western clinic of 1904 in Gujo Hachiman, with an Ionic-columned porch, mortar corners imitating stone and pedimented sash windows. Open as a city museum.

The Former Miyagawa Family Residence Main House is a thatched-roof mountain farmhouse rescued from Tokuyama Village before it was submerged by Japan's largest reservoir. Relocated to Gifu Prefectural Hundred-Year Park in Seki City and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, it preserves the architecture and atmosphere of a vanished village in western Mino.

An 1875 shop and home on the old road in Takada, Yoro, Gifu, with a 19-metre frontage and black plaster above lattices; oldest of seven listed brewery buildings.

The 1895 main house of the Goto family on the old Gujo Kaido in Gifu City, with six rooms in two rows and finely crafted transoms and fittings. Registered in 2021.

A tiny early-Meiji shrine for Jizo on the Goto family property in Gifu City, only 0.4 m² yet built with a curved head tie, bracket blocks and a kaerumata strut.

The Komachi Sake Brewery Service Gate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, built in 1897, is the oldest of five registered buildings, its board doors bound in splayed iron straps.

The Komachi Sake Brewery Detached Wing in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1912 reception wing of two 8-mat rooms with a tokonoma and shelves, set behind a walled garden.

The main house of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, from about the early Meiji era, has carved beams under its lattice windows and a sukiya-style room.

The west storehouse of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, held rice and goods; set on a high cobble base against floods, its openings bear carved lintels.

The east storehouse of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, kept swords and porcelain; it stands on a cobble base about 2 metres high with fine plaster walls.

The annex of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, used as retirement rooms, sets a simple sukiya-style tatami room on a high cobble base by its storehouses.