Meiji
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An 1893 gabled block behind the main hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, housing a founder's hall with a cusped niche and a memorial tablet hall. Registered.
A townhouse of 1900 on Honmachi-dori in Inuyama, Aichi, built on a corner: plain gable north, hipped gable south, eaves wrapping round. Registered in 2005.
The Sōryō (monks' quarters) of Enmyoji Temple, nestled between the main hall and priest's residence in Inuyama castle town, Aichi Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in the mid-Meiji period. Distinguished by its kirizuma-zukuri gabled roof with sangawara pantiles and a formal stepped shikidai-genkan entrance facing the main hall, the building was registered on August 13, 2012, alongside the temple's other four historic structures. Set within the grounds of a Jōdo Shinshū temple famed for its 300-year-old weeping cherry tree, the Sōryō quietly tells the story of architectural evolution from the Edo through the early 20th century.
A tiny Meiji strongroom beside the Okumura main house in Inuyama. Just 14 square metres, yet its tiled canopies and black plaster answer the view from the west.
A Meiji storehouse west of the Okumura rice store in Inuyama. Three ken square, taller than its neighbour, and finished with ridge-end tiles that mark a higher rank.
A Meiji outbuilding in Inuyama sharing two walls with a storehouse and a boundary wall, forming a narrow alley-like space against the compound's covered passage.
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.
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.
The Onoda Family Residence Main House in Toyohashi, Aichi, dates from 1886, with a reception wing of 1920 and a gatehouse of about 1849 in front. Registered 2013.
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.
The parish hall of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church in Nagoya, a mid Meiji timber house in colonial style, has white-painted clapboard and a gabled entrance.
The brick wall of the Catholic Chikaramachi Church in Nagoya, a mid Meiji wall 29 metres long in English bond on a stone base, lines a historic street.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.