Meiji
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The brewery's smallest building, this 16-square-metre late-Meiji storehouse was moved whole by hikiya, its near-windowless walls edged with water-shedding tiles.
An early Meiji well in the corner of Kamotsuru's founding site in Saijo: a hexagonal cut-stone curb over a round fieldstone shaft, in use since the brewery began.
The smallest Kamotsuru listing in Saijo: an early Meiji two-story storehouse, plastered to the eaves and boarded inside, gable-end west beside its twin.
Kamotsuru's founding-site brewhouse in Saijo: an early Meiji earthen kura extended south in the Taisho and Showa eras, now the brewery shop and museum.
An early Meiji earthen brewhouse facing the west wing on Kamotsuru's founding site in Saijo, with octagonal roof timbers; now part of the shop and tour room.
A single-story early Meiji storehouse on Kamotsuru's founding site in Saijo, twin to the north storehouse but a meter wider and lower, both gables facing west.
Late Meiji brick chimney beside Kamotsuru's No. 2 Brewhouse in Saijo: 14 m of English bond with a corbelled crown and the Kamotsuru name; oldest of the four stacks.
Late Meiji core brewhouse of Kamotsuru in Saijo, ridge running east-west, its front faced with namako tiles below white plaster and lattice windows; still brewing.
Late Meiji wing running north from Kamotsuru's No. 2 front range in Saijo, with namako tiles and white plaster, its long wall broken by narrow three-bar windows.
Late Meiji main well of Kamotsuru's No. 2 Brewhouse in Saijo, a 40 cm hexagon of 19 cm cut stone now enclosed indoors; the only well registered as a model of design.
Late Meiji well in the southeast corner of Kamotsuru's head-office site in Saijo, built of round fieldstone, unlike the brewery's three hexagonal registered wells.
Timber clubhouse of 1907 in Etajima, Hiroshima, built for navy sailors and petty officers, with a gabled porch and balcony; preserved by volunteers, open by booking.
Single-storey navy club hall of 1905 moved from Kure to Etajima, Hiroshima, in 1928, with a martial arts hall and games room behind the main Kaiyusha building.
Kirei Sake Brewery No. 1 Storehouse in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, is a late-Meiji brewhouse whose 34- and 17-metre white plaster wings meet in an L under red tiles.
Street-front house of a former ryotei inn in Fuchu, Hiroshima: an early Meiji front with guest wings of 1905 and 1912 and a lookout storey; free entry to 2 floors.
The Saijo Tsuru Brewery Shuhogura Fermentation Storehouse is a late-Meiji earthen storehouse in Saijo, the brewery's largest, with lattice windows and red tiles.
The Saijo Tsuru Brewery Shuhogura Brewing Storehouse is a late-Meiji earthen storehouse in Saijo under a red-tile gable roof, the core of brewing on the site.
The Saijo Tsuru Brewery Store and Main House is a late-Meiji shop-home in Saijo with a lift-up door, an earthen passage and five rooms in a row ending in a parlor.
Built in 1907 below the main hall's steps, this copper-roofed worship hall greets you with a karahafu porch and carved struts; a plain offering hall sits behind.
Built in 1907 on a hill above the Inland Sea, this small copper-roofed main hall stacks a chidori gable over a karahafu porch and fills its eaves with carved detail.