Meiji

An 1896 timber workshop-shop beside the black Horiguchi shop in Shibukawa, Gunma, with trolley rails in its floor; at 131 square metres, the largest of the five.

An 1897 storehouse at the centre of the Horiguchi compound in Shibukawa, Gunma, with a 6-bay white plaster wall on a tiled base and a covered work area on its west.

A two-story early Meiji white-plaster storehouse at the Machida estate in Nakanojo, Gunma, noted for banded walls and a layered plaster cornice; registered in 2001.

An 83-meter Meiji-era roofed board fence, open beneath its ridge, enclosing the west and north sides of the L-shaped Machida estate in Nakanojo; registered in 2001.

A small, plain early Meiji earthen storehouse behind the Machida main house in Nakanojo, Gunma, on a fieldstone base under a separate roof; registered in 2001.

An early Meiji yakuimon gate, 2.4 meters wide, on Route 353 in Nakanojo, Gunma, whose street-side roof is laid in stepped courses; registered in 2001.

Up platform of Omama Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, a 107-metre stone platform of 1911 with squared-stone walls and a late Meiji look.

Omama Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma: a white-walled timber building of 1941 and a 73-metre stone platform of 1911 with a 1929 canopy.

Rebuilt in 1875, the Itsukushima Shrine Great Torii is anchored by nothing: pine piles, gravel in its box lintel and its own mass keep it upright in the sea.

House of Rai Shunpu, uncle of Rai San'yo, in Takehara, Hiroshima: five buildings including an 1855 main house and gatehouse in a samurai-style layout.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence main house in Shiraichi, Higashihiroshima, is an 1871 ironcasters' townhouse. Metal fittings on its lattice recall the trade. Registered 2025.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence detached wing in Shiraichi is a refined Meiji guest room and tea room, said to have lodged a prince. Registered 2025 as a design model.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence gate and wall edge an old street in Shiraichi. Its stone-stepped yakui-mon gate bears castle-style shachihoko ornaments. Registered 2025.

Built around 1905 on the old Saigoku Kaido in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, the Ota Family Residence Main House pairs a latticed ground floor with black tile above.

A late Meiji storehouse moved in the early Showa era to the rear of the Ota family estate in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, with a tiled drip course and a gable door.

A late Meiji gate in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, 6.3 m wide with a 3 m plank-door opening and a wicket door. Registered in 2012, it predates the house it faces.

Early Meiji earthen brewing storehouse at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, laid out in a T with white plaster walls; the main brewing building.

Late Meiji earthen storage storehouse 39 metres long at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, with storage tanks inside; it shapes the brewery's look.

Early Meiji earthen store at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, converted from a household store into a packing house, with drip tiles on its gable.

Facing Saijo's sake street, Kamoizumi Shuzo's late-Meiji main house sets a merchant's earthen passage beside a formal ten-mat guest room behind a latticed front.