Meiji
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In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Main Gate is a single-bay udegimon of about 1909, standing atop a castle-like stone wall. Now registered.
In Iwade, Wakayama, the mid-Meiji Fukuda Family Residence Earthen Wall runs about 41.5 m over precise stone footings with a washed-aggregate face. Now registered.
In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Barn of 1878 is the estate's oldest building, a part-two-story timber structure with lean-to eaves. Now registered.
In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Detached Room of 1903 is a six-mat guest room with a tokonoma, reached by a covered passage. Now registered.
The Misoya Bekkan Upper Storehouse and Detached Guest Room in Hashimoto City, Wakayama, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property built in the mid-Meiji period. Standing on the grounds of Misoya Kimono Shop, founded in 1495, this distinctive single-structure building combines a fireproof storehouse with a formal reception room, preserving the refined merchant culture of a historic post town on the pilgrimage route to Mount Koya.
Discover Misoya Bekkan Main House, a registered tangible cultural property in Hashimoto, Wakayama. Built in 1884 along the historic Koya-kaido pilgrimage road to Mount Koya, this elegant Meiji-era merchant townhouse preserves the atmosphere of a thriving post town.
A roadside wall of about 1906 of greenish Wakayama blue stone laid as random rubble, over 18 metres long and about 1.8 metres high, finished with a shaped coping.
A small armed-bracket gate of about 1906, barely a metre wide, leading from the living quarters to the reception garden under a gabled roof of Wakayama round tiles.