Meiji

明治

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Okumura Family Residence East High Wall
Aichi 明治
Okumura Family Residence East High Wall

The East Takabei is a 17.4-meter plastered wall of a merchant compound in Inuyama, braced by buttress posts and listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Okumura Family Residence Corridor
Aichi 明治
Okumura Family Residence Corridor

The watari-ro of the Okumura Residence in Inuyama is a Meiji-era covered corridor doubling as a well-house, one of nine registered buildings now run as a restaurant.

Onoda Family Residence Main Building
Aichi 明治
Onoda Family Residence Main Building

The Onoda Family Residence Main Building in Toyohashi, Aichi, dates from 1886, with a wing added in 1920 and an 1849 gatehouse nearby. Registered in 2013.

Kakuoji Temple Gate
Aichi 明治
Kakuoji Temple Gate

Kakuoji's gate in Fuso, Aichi, is a one-bay zelkova yakui-mon built in 1902, among five temple buildings on Japan's register of tangible cultural properties.

Catholic Chikaramachi Church Believers' Hall
Aichi 明治
Catholic Chikaramachi Church Believers' Hall

The Catholic Chikara-machi Church Believers' Hall in Nagoya's Higashi Ward is a colonial-style two-story wooden Western building constructed around 1889–1892 as the rectory for French missionary Father Tulpin. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the history of early Catholic evangelization and Meiji-era Western architecture in Nagoya.

Brick Wall of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church
Aichi 明治
Brick Wall of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church

This Meiji-era brick wall at Nagoya's oldest Catholic church stretches 29 meters along Chikara-machi Street, featuring English-bond brickwork atop a cut-stone base. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2011, it contributes to the historic streetscape of the Shirakabe–Chikara–Shumoku Preservation District along Nagoya's Cultural Path.

Kamiya Family Residence Well House
Aichi 明治
Kamiya Family Residence Well House

The Kamiya Family Residence Well House in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji well shelter with four inward-leaning posts, a cut-stone curb and a surviving bucket pulley.

Kamiya Family Residence Inner Room
Aichi 明治
Kamiya Family Residence Inner Room

The Kamiya Family Residence Inner Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji reception wing of 147 square metres, four rooms in a grid finished in the sukiya manner.

Kamiya Family Residence Rear Storehouse
Aichi 明治
Kamiya Family Residence Rear Storehouse

The Kamiya Family Residence Rear Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji two-storey mud-walled kura with a sheltered porch, used daily for household tools.

Kamiya Family Residence Kettle House and Storage Shed
Aichi 明治
Kamiya Family Residence Kettle House and Storage Shed

The Kamiya Family Residence Kettle House and Storage Shed in Anjo, Aichi, is a 14-metre strip of building, 1.8 metres deep, whose black wall reads as a fence.

Kamiya Family Rice Storehouse
Aichi 明治
Kamiya Family Rice Storehouse

The Kamiya Family Rice Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji kura of 80 square metres, its 7.3-metre span crossed by beams trebled up in the roof frame.

Kamiya Family Residence Plastering Room and Charcoal Room
Aichi 明治
Kamiya Family Residence Plastering Room and Charcoal Room

The Kamiya Family Residence Plastering Room and Charcoal Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a workshop range of about 1905 built continuous with the estate's main gate.

Kamiya Family Residence Tatami Room
Aichi 明治
Kamiya Family Residence Tatami Room

The Kamiya Family Residence Tatami Room in Anjo, Aichi, is an early Meiji reception wing of 85 square metres with a circular lattice window and a tea room.

Kamiya Family Grain Storehouse
Aichi 明治
Kamiya Family Grain Storehouse

The Kamiya Family Grain Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji two-storey kura whose window hood brackets are modelled in plaster into spiral scrolls.

Kamiya Family Residence Main Gate
Aichi 明治
Kamiya Family Residence Main Gate

The Kamiya Family Residence Main Gate in Anjo, Aichi, is a 14-metre gatehouse of 1905, hipped at the east end and gabled at the west, with rooms built in.

Kamiya Family Residence Yokoya
Aichi 明治
Kamiya Family Residence Yokoya

The Kamiya Family Residence Yokoya in Anjo, Aichi, is an early Meiji wing boarded shut towards the street and opened with posts and a veranda on the courtyard side.

Kamiya Family Residence Connecting Passage
Aichi 明治
Kamiya Family Residence Connecting Passage

The Kamiya Family Residence Connecting Passage in Anjo, Aichi, is a 13-metre link joining the estate's workrooms to its rice storehouse, open on the inner side.

Kawata Family Residence Main House
Aichi 明治
Kawata Family Residence Main House

Moved from a town in 1917 and remade as a farmhouse, the Kawata Family Residence in Fuso, Aichi keeps a machiya roof and plan while its upper floor reared silkworms.

Amajiang Ajirin Factory
Aichi 明治
Amajiang Ajirin Factory

Discover the Kankyō Mirin Factory in Kanie, Aichi—a registered cultural property since 2005. Built in 1877, this U-shaped earthen-walled brewery still produces traditional hon-mirin used by Japan's finest restaurants.

Former Aichi Prefectural Second Ordinary Middle School Auditorium
Aichi 明治
Former Aichi Prefectural Second Ordinary Middle School Auditorium

A timber school hall of about 1897 in Okazaki, Aichi, sold to a spinning mill in 1925 and moved onto its grounds. Said to be Japan's oldest of its kind.