Meiji
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A late-Meiji fireproof shop in Shimonita, Gunma, with white lime plaster, a washed-mortar base, a front canopy and an elaborate ridge. Registered in 2009.
The oldest structure at the Ogino Family Residence in Shimonita, Gunma: an 1891 gable-entry fireproof storehouse with kakegonuri doors. Registered in 2009.
A late-Meiji storehouse and row house on the south edge of the Ogino Family Residence in Shimonita, Gunma, lining a lane with white plaster walls. Registered 2009.
An 1885 tool store in the corner of a headman's homestead in Ota, Gunma, with a separately framed okiyane roof, a covered forecourt and plastered fireproof doors.
An 1873 headman's farmhouse in Ota, Gunma: a long two-storey gabled core with lean-tos, a formal shikidai entrance and a kebudashi roof vent for raising silkworms.
An 1873 nagayamon gatehouse in Ota, Gunma, with a store, a silkworm room between two gateways and a west gate kept shut, matched to the main house entrance.
An 1885 clothing storehouse on a headman's homestead in Ota, Gunma, set at right angles to the north store so the pair frame the garden behind the main house.
A mid-Meiji household shrine in the corner of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma: a tiny zelkova nagare-zukuri shrine with a bracketed porch and railings.
The east-facing main gate of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma: a mid-Meiji yakuimon of solid zelkova with a flat outer ceiling and a coffered inner one.
A mid-Meiji two-storey storehouse in the southwest corner of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, with a sheltered entrance, shuttered gables and molded eaves.
A long mid-Meiji shed on the west side of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, open on one side, earth-walled on three, to store timber thinned on site.
A mid-Meiji two-storey pawn storehouse on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, whose tatami front room under the eaves shows how pledged goods were received.
At about 44.9 meters, the longest structure on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma: a tiled wall of plaster over boards, rebuilt after the 1910 flood.
A mid-Meiji tatami room beside the Great Gate in Fujioka, Gunma, plastered and battened outside, open-framed inside, with a barred window watching the gateway.
A mid-Meiji grain storehouse on the east side of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, with plaster walls, battened boards and two barred windows beside the gate.
Built in mid-Meiji when the Kawabata family grew rich on silk, this 131 m² two-storey guest pavilion in Fujioka, Gunma, is a fine modern Japanese-style building.
A two-storey early Meiji storehouse on the east front of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, closed and plastered outside, with an open lean-to on the inner side.
A long, low mid-Meiji storehouse on the south side of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, hipped at one end, gabled at the other, with a brick lining inside.
A 15.1-meter tiled boundary wall on the south side of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, badly damaged in the 1910 flood and rebuilt in its original form.
An early Meiji storage shed on the east side of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, whose long posts lift the roof framing high over a boarded floor.