Meiji
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The oldest building on the Yamada brewery lot in Toyoma, Tome City: an early Meiji storehouse of 25 m², dated partly by the square nails inside. Registered 2021.
Kinkazan Lighthouse off the Oshika Peninsula in Miyagi, designed by Richard Henry Brunton in 1876, is a granite tower and the oldest stone lighthouse in Tohoku.
The Sairi Yashiki Stone Bathhouse in Marumori, Miyagi, is a late Meiji bath of local granite with edokiri joints and a stone tub, filled with water heated elsewhere.
The Sairi Yashiki Rear Gate and Wall in Marumori, Miyagi, are an early Meiji munamon gate with shingled eaves and a wicket door, plus a short timber wall.
The Sairi Yashiki Front Gate in Marumori, Miyagi, is an early Meiji yakuimon gate of solid zelkova with single-board doors and temple-style bracketing.
The Sumai no Kura at Sairi Yashiki in Marumori, Miyagi, is an early Meiji earthen storehouse with black plaster trim, where dioramas and graffiti recall its clerks.
The Toki no Kura at Sairi Yashiki in Marumori, Miyagi, is a mid-Meiji earthen storehouse with a Western roof truss and carved brackets, and a 130-year-old clock.
The Nariwai no Kura at Sairi Yashiki in Marumori, Miyagi, is an early Meiji timber storehouse with exposed posts and ties, now used to explain the family trade.
The Yomego no Kura at Sairi Yashiki in Marumori, Miyagi, is a 1904 earthen storehouse with a tall detached roof and black plaster trim, framing the street front.
A household Inari shrine of 1899 on the Sato estate in Ogawara, Miyagi, walled in lattice, with a nagare-zukuri cabinet and a carved lion, dragon and phoenix.
A tatami reception block of about 1901 in Ogawara, Miyagi, moved in 1936, with a tea room, an alcove and shelves split across a corner, and a king post truss.
An 1886 two-storey storehouse facing the Oshu Kaido in Ogawara, Miyagi, clad in lime plaster and namako tiling, the oldest building on the Sato estate.
Powerhouse of 1909 in Sendai at the station that lit Japan's first hydroelectric lamps in 1888, with a raised clerestory roof; still generating today.
Main house of 1881 of a fishing family on Tashirojima, Ishinomaki: a single-storey hip-and-gable house with a projecting entrance and a 15-mat okami room.
The Sumaru Yashiki Shop Storehouse in Shiroishi is a late Meiji two-storey storehouse shop with iron-grilled windows and two-tone plaster eaves. Registered in 2019.
Tamakō, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Shiroishi, Miyagi, is a late-Meiji ryōtei (1898–1912) renovated in 1925. Sitting beside the old Shiroishi Castle outer moat, its 678 m² complex of east and west banquet wings around a central pond preserves a rare type of large-scale wooden hospitality architecture.
The gate of Toshinji in Shiroishi, Miyagi, built in 1887 with timbers said to come from a gate of Shiroishi Castle, has a bell chamber with a jewel-shaped opening.
The main house of the Oriza no Mori farmhouse inn in Kami, Miyagi, a silk farmer's house of 1890 moved from Kakuda, keeps the tall upper floor of the region's farms.
Fubokaku Grain Storehouse, an earthen store of about 1896 at Aone Onsen now a hot-spring bath: its black-plaster window frame and two recorded renovation dates.
Fubokaku Zashiki Storehouse, a store of about 1896 at Aone Onsen whose upper floor once lodged long-staying guests: its tilework, literary legends and access.