Meiji
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The Former Aikawa Family Residence Inari Shrine in Isesaki, Gunma, is an 1882 household shrine of 5.1 square metres, built with earthen walls like a storehouse.
The Former Aikawa Family Residence Front Gate and Wall in Isesaki, Gunma, is a 1900 yakuimon gate with an openwork tiled ridge, flanked by white plaster board walls.
A Meiji two-storey brick storehouse in Maebashi, Gunma, registered in 2008, with English-bond brick and the details of a traditional earthen storehouse.
The Koonji Temple Guest Hall in Chiyoda, Gunma, is a finely built late Meiji reception room with a veranda facing its south garden, nationally registered in 1999.
An early Meiji house at the front of Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, extended in 1925 with rooms for finishing obi fabric; plans from 1900 and 1925 trace its change.
An early Meiji two-storey store at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu, moved around 1925. Called a kura, it is timber-clad rather than earthen and held household goods.
The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Kimono Storehouse is a small Meiji-era earthen storehouse whose tall ridge anchors a Takasaki tea shop's firebreak.
The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) New Storehouse is an 1887 earthen storehouse at a Takasaki tea shop with the tallest ridge and built-in tea chests.
The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) New Zashiki is a 1906 storehouse parlour at a Takasaki tea shop, said to be the founder's retirement room; registered in 2000.
The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Front Storehouse is a mid-Meiji earthen storehouse closing the north end of a Takasaki tea shop's firebreak line.
The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Miso Storehouse is a Meiji-era earthen storehouse with a metal roof on the household side of a Takasaki tea shop.
The Komoda Family Residence Well House in Isesaki, Gunma, is an early Meiji shelter that sets a well and washing place on a stone platform below splayed posts.
The Komoda Family Residence Main House in Isesaki, Gunma, is an early Meiji silk farmhouse whose upper silkworm room is vented by three ridge turrets. Listed 2004.
A mid-Meiji silkworm farmhouse in Shimonita, Gunma: living rooms below, one open silkworm room above, and two raised vents on the ridge. Registered in 2007.
Brewing storehouse of 1911 at Shoda Shoyu in Tatebayashi, Gunma, twenty bays long, aligned with No. 6 and paired with No. 8 to show twin gable ends at the south.
Brewing storehouse of 1908 at Shoda Shoyu in Tatebayashi, Gunma, thirty bays long and three-aisled, with the only hip-and-gable roof among its brewing stores.
Four-span steel girder bridge over the Arato River near Ogo, Gunma, using British girders of 1903, rebuilt after Typhoon Kathleen in 1947; still in daily use.
Two-storey timber inn said to have opened around 1892 in Nakanojo, Gunma, with five guest rooms on a segai-style upper floor; one of the few Meiji-period inns left.
A late-Meiji townhouse in Kiryu whose street front is all lattice windows, with the entrance tucked into a south lean-to and a hipped roof end. Registered in 2006.
A two-storey earthen-walled storehouse built by sake brewers before the Soga family arrived, shown in an 1889 print; its plastered north wall anchors a fire barrier.