Meiji
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The Kamiya Family Residence Main Gate in Anjo, Aichi, is a 14-metre gatehouse of 1905, hipped at the east end and gabled at the west, with rooms built in.
The Kamiya Family Residence Yokoya in Anjo, Aichi, is an early Meiji wing boarded shut towards the street and opened with posts and a veranda on the courtyard side.
The Kamiya Family Residence Connecting Passage in Anjo, Aichi, is a 13-metre link joining the estate's workrooms to its rice storehouse, open on the inner side.
Moved from a town in 1917 and remade as a farmhouse, the Kawata Family Residence in Fuso, Aichi keeps a machiya roof and plan while its upper floor reared silkworms.
Discover the Kankyō Mirin Factory in Kanie, Aichi—a registered cultural property since 2005. Built in 1877, this U-shaped earthen-walled brewery still produces traditional hon-mirin used by Japan's finest restaurants.
A timber school hall of about 1897 in Okazaki, Aichi, sold to a spinning mill in 1925 and moved onto its grounds. Said to be Japan's oldest of its kind.
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.
An early Meiji two-storey retirement cottage at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, with a sukiya-style six-mat room opening onto a courtyard.
The tiled yakuimon gate and flanking barns of around 1872 at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, forming the dignified frontage of a shipowner's home.
The main house of the Uchida Saheiji branch family in Utsumi, Minamichita, Aichi, built around 1872 and sharing much of its plan with the main Uchida house.
An early Meiji openwork fence of round-bamboo lattice at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, framing the retirement cottage's garden. Registered.
A two-storey storehouse of around 1872 at the Uchida Saheiji house in Minamichita, Aichi, standing on a street corner with plastered and clapboard walls.
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.