Meiji
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On Hososhima's commercial wharf in Miyazaki, a six-square-metre brick hut built in 1893 by the Imperial Japanese Army's Land Survey Department still records Pacific tides — the oldest working tide gauge in Japan, designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2018.
Timber merchants faced both banks of Nichinan's 1686 canal in sandstone, adding steps and slipways for cedar. The 2,058-metre revetment was registered in 2004.
Raised over the Horikawa Canal in 1903 by the Obi mason Ishii Bunkichi, this single stone arch carries the approach to Ahiratsu Shrine at Aburatsu in Nichinan.
Built in 1905 at Kashiwabaru in Miyazaki City, this 25-square-metre stone storehouse carries a Lombard band below its eaves, raised quoins and karakusa carving.
This late Meiji stone wall at Kashiwabaru in Miyazaki City runs thirty-four metres in edo-giri ashlar, pierced by two gates whose pillars stand 2.3 metres tall.
Miyazaki Shrine's Stone Fence, built in 1907, runs some 235 meters of cast artificial stone around the sanctuary to the Funatsuka tumulus, an early concrete boundary.
Miyazaki Shrine's Goryoya, built in 1907, stands east of the heiden and, with its twin hall to the west, forms the symmetrical facade Ito Chuta designed here.
Miyazaki Shrine's Shinsenjo, built in 1907, stands west of the heiden and holds the shrine's sacred food offerings. It is registered as a fine example of its type.
Miyazaki Shrine's Shinden, built in 1907, faces south before the Funatsuka burial mound. Its plain, Ise-influenced form earned a rare listing as a model of design.
An 88-meter timber fence of 1907 enclosing the sanctuary of Miyazaki Shrine in a half-octagon. Lattice above boarding lets visitors see through. Registered in 2010.
A four-legged gate of 1907 at the head of the approach to Miyazaki Shrine, its opening 5.5 meters wide and its board doors bearing large chrysanthemum fittings.
A roofed timber fence of 1907 running 119 meters, the longest registered structure at Miyazaki Shrine. Copper over battens, open palings between posts.
A two-storey timber museum of 1909 in the trees at Miyazaki Shrine, walls entirely clad in lattice-jointed tile, sash windows behind iron grilles. Registered 2010.
A worship structure of 1907 at Miyazaki Shrine, three bays square, open on all four sides, with stone paving underfoot and the roof frame left exposed.
An offering hall of 1907 at Miyazaki Shrine, seven bays by four, with paired rafters repeated along the ridge inside the roof. The largest building in the precinct.
A covered passage of 1907 linking the offering hall and the sanctuary at Miyazaki Shrine. The smallest registered structure here, its roof framing left exposed.
The Watanabe Family Residence Small Storehouse in Aburatsu, Nichinan, is a Meiji-era earthen kura for firewood, registered in 2006, plastered up to its eaves.
The Watanabe Family Residence Sake Storehouse in Aburatsu, Nichinan, is a Meiji-era earthen kura registered in 2006, its eaves sealed in wave-patterned lime plaster.
The Watanabe Family Residence West Storehouse in Aburatsu, Nichinan, is a Meiji-era earthen kura for household goods, registered in 2006, with a board-clad front.
Built around 1887 for missionaries and designated an Important Cultural Property in 2016, this colonial timber house in Sendai is a rare early foreign residence.