Meiji
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An 1894 wing of tatami rooms in Kiryu that wraps a family pawn storehouse under one roof. An ink inscription on a beam records the date and that year's war.
An 1897 timber chapel in Isesaki, Gunma, with a gabled nave, a half-hipped 2-storey wing, a king-post truss and a simple half-timbered porch. Registered 2008.
Built in 1877 in Kiryu, Gunma, this registered gate and 19-metre plastered wall are all a weaving family showed the street. Private home, viewable from the lane.
A Meiji shelter of 1.9 square meters at the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, with a flowing shrine roof over an Edo-period Inari shrine and two stone shrines.
A two-story Meiji retirement house beside the Fujiu main house in Kiryu, Gunma, with a 14-mat upstairs hall and its own bath wing. Registered 2007; private.
An early-Meiji storehouse in Kiryu, Gunma, linked to the Fujiu main house through a ten-mat room, with white plaster walls and fireproof window doors. Private.
A 5.8-meter Meiji bracket-arm gate on the south side of the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, moved whole in 1973 when the road was widened. Visible from the street.
An early-Meiji water mill hut and storage shed under one tiled roof on the east side of the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, once driven by channel water. Private.
Two surviving stretches of a 2.5-meter roofed board wall around the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, set on river cobbles and cut stone. Early Meiji, registered 2007.
A four-and-a-half-mat Meiji tea room in the northwest garden of the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, with an alcove, shelves and an L-shaped open veranda. Private home.
A late-Meiji lattice gate for the retirement house forecourt at the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma; its 10-meter wall is plastered on one side, boarded on the other.
An early-Meiji two-story storehouse for household utensils at the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, with a separate okiyane roof and a tiled pent roof on its west side.
An early-Meiji garden well by the pond at the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, said to serve the tea room; a low tuff curb on a slab tops its 3.6-meter shaft.
An early-Meiji drinking-water well behind the Fujiu main house in Kiryu, Gunma, with a granite curb held by half-lap joints over a 4.3-meter shaft of cobbles.
An early-Meiji firewood and charcoal shed on the north side of the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, raised on cut stone and clad in sheet metal to keep fuel dry.
A small early-Meiji earthen storehouse behind the Fujiu main house in Kiryu, Gunma, likely for homemade miso, set on river cobbles with white plaster walls. Private.
A 7-ken Meiji storage building on the south edge of the Fujiu estate in Kiryu, Gunma, set on a cobblestone channel bank and moved in 1973. Viewable from the street.
Hoshi-no-Yu, the Large Bath of Hoshi Onsen Chojukan in Gunma, is an 1895 bathhouse with arched windows, a cedar-bark roof and spring water welling up underfoot.
The Hoshi Onsen Chojukan Main Building is an early Meiji timber inn in Minakami, Gunma, 30 meters long under a cedar-bark roof with a smoke vent, registered in 2006.
An 1897 clay-walled store behind the Horiguchi house in Shibukawa, Gunma: entered at the gable, with lean-tos on two sides and tiled namako-kabe lower walls.