Meiji
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The Former Isobe Family Residence, Inner Storehouse of 1875 closes the rear garden of a merchant plot in Inuyama, Aichi. Its canopy timbers are fully plastered.
The Former Isobe Family Storehouse of 1875 stands alone behind a merchant plot in Inuyama, Aichi. Namako tilework, stepped shutters, interior views on dry days.
The Former Isobe Family Residence Storage Shed of 1875 ends a long merchant plot in Inuyama, Aichi. A single central post carries its two wide floors.
The Former Ito New Room in Handa, Aichi, registered in 2022, is a Meiji reception wing of three rooms in line, fitted out as a resting place for the Meiji Emperor.
A Meiji pseudo-Western building on the grounds of the Toyota City Folk Craft Museum in Aichi. Twice relocated, it mixes four window types. Exterior viewing only.
A 22-square-metre annexe in an early Meiji shipowner's compound at Utsumi, Aichi, pairing a tea-room window and suspended alcove with a storehouse loading floor.
A pantiled yakuimon gate 2.2 metres across, flanked by two low barns along the street edge of an 1872 shipowner's compound at Utsumi, Aichi, registered in 2018.
In Shinshiro, Aichi, this earthen storehouse held the ledgers of East Mikawa's first private bank. Its mid-Meiji black-plaster doors survive by the 1925 hall.
The Former Kato Residence main house in Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a registered timber home of a Meiji landlord family, now used for the city's reminiscence therapy.
The Former Katō Family Residence Middle Gate, Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a plain Meiji yakuimon dividing the garden of a wealthy landowner's compound. Free to visit.
An imposing two-story earthen storehouse of the wealthy Katō landowners near Nagoya, this Registered Cultural Property now serves Kitanagoya's reminiscence center.
Early-Meiji timber gatehouse at the Former Kato Family Residence in Kitanagoya, Aichi, built for a landlord. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, open free.
In Inuyama, Aichi, this late-Meiji giyofu building once housed a village bank. A dragon ridge tile, a phoenix gable, and a tall hall remain as a registered property.
A brick culvert of 1900 beneath the embankment of the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, where a nine-metre shaft and an eleven-metre bore drain a valley.
A 76-metre brick railway tunnel of 1900 on the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, with a pilastered portal and a memorial to its builders at the mouth.
A 75-metre brick railway tunnel of 1900 on the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, with a stone coping above its portal and a stretcher-bond brick lining.
Registered in 2024, the Former Nakano Hanroku Residence Main House sits on the Handa Canal, an 1889 merchant house with a double-width alcove and a boat-plank fence.
A twelve-metre boundary wall of 1913 in Tsushima, Aichi. Lapped boarding faces the street, split bamboo the garden, and a low wicket door opens near its east end.
A small two-storey earthen storehouse in Tsushima, Aichi, entered from inside the main house rather than the yard. Its black boarded walls held the family archive.
A timber two-storey house of 1912 to 1914 in Tsushima, Aichi. Daily rooms sit downstairs and formal reception rooms upstairs, inverting the plan of an Edo townhouse.