Meiji

This 1893 earthen storehouse pairs white plaster with a boarded base. Its projecting drip tiles, peaked at the gable ends, turn rain-shedding into crisp form.

Added in 1909, this reception wing opens to a pond garden. Its great room holds the finest carving on the site, including peonies with a lion cut from one Yakusugi board.

Built in 1891 by the Hozawa merchants, this is old Higashijo's largest town house, known for its layered yatsumune roof and black-plaster wall of flower windows.

Built around 1902 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Rear Gate and Earthen Wall includes a 115-metre wall raised by villagers to welcome a new doctor.

Built around 1902 in Shobara, Hiroshima, the Takiguchi Nagayamon Gate and Clinic joined a gatehouse with inpatient rooms to a clinic, a late-Meiji rural hospital.

The Takiguchi Family Residence Storeroom in Shobara, Hiroshima, is the estate's oldest building, a late-Meiji wing with a curved-beam loft and its original bath.

An early Meiji two-storey gatehouse 31 metres long on the old Fukuyama–Fuchu highway, with a rice store and servants’ rooms, now the Nobuoka Flat Museum in Fukuyama.

An early Meiji brick chimney 25 meters tall at Hakubotan's Enpogura in Saijo, in English bond with a corbelled top and the name in katakana; registered in 2017.

An L-shaped earthen brewery building at Hakubotan's Enpogura in Saijo, dated to early Meiji and extended in 1959, with a koji room and a lab; registered in 2017.

An early Meiji brick chimney 21 meters tall at Hakubotan's Tenpogura in Saijo, in English bond with the brand in kanji, a symbol of the sake town; registered 2017.

A late-Meiji earthen rice mill at Hakubotan's Tenpogura in Saijo, with a trussed roof and a glazed lean-to for testing; registered in 2017 as a model of design.

The smallest of the Hida estate's registered buildings, this tiny Kannon hall stands over the family's own grave, a rare record of local island devotion.

The barn of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, from the mid-Meiji era. Some 17 metres long, it held materials in its north half and a cowshed in its south.

Stone arch aqueduct and footbridge of about 1882 in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, built to carry an irrigation channel over the realigned Sanyodo road, later moved.

The smallest building at the Miyake Family Residence in Kaita, Hiroshima: a late Meiji storehouse whose front windows pair iron bars with thick plastered shutters.

A small late Meiji rice storehouse at the Miyake Family Residence in Kaita, Hiroshima, that held rent rice from tenant farmers, with two windows in its south gable.

Myokakuji's 1869 four-legged gate in Kisa, Miyoshi, has round main pillars, square posts, an unusual high tie beam and densely packed brackets. Registered in 2024.

Myokakuji's 1892 bell hall in Kisa, Miyoshi, is one bay square on a stone base, with inward-leaning round columns, frog-leg blocks and a bell under a board ceiling.

The Murakami Family Residence Udegimon Gate is a late Meiji garden gate in Fukuyama, with bracket arms carrying its eaves, a grid transom and central sliding doors.

The Murakami Family Residence Main House in Fukuyama is a late Meiji guest hall whose upper reception rooms, with a tokonoma and carved transoms, face the bay.