Meiji
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Late Meiji lodge in the corner of Iwasaki Yataro's birthplace in Aki, Kochi, with a combined hipped and hip-and-gable roof and a kitchen wing. Registered in 2010.
A 1908 one-bay nagare-zukuri shrine at Iwasaki Yataro's birthplace in Aki, Kochi, with octagonal posts and a diamond crest on its front. Registered in 2010.
Two-storey 1886 storehouse behind Iwasaki Yataro's birthplace in Aki, Kochi, with Tosa plaster, tiers of drip tiles and the Iwasaki crest. Registered 2010.
The Iwamura Residence storehouse in Aki, Kochi, is an early Meiji two-storey storehouse with a floating tiled roof, plaster walls and 2 rows of rain-shedding tiles.
The Iwamura Residence gate and palanquin room in Aki, Kochi, is an early Meiji bracket-arm gate with an attached palanquin room, forming a dignified street front.
A two-story mid-Meiji shop on a Susaki corner, walled in black lime plaster, with eaves stepped out in three tiers and a coffered office. Registered in 2016.
A late Meiji gate 2.4 metres wide on a village lane in Konan City, Kochi. Unusually thick timbers, a gently curved tile roof, and short walls to either side.
A late Meiji house of 206 square metres in Konan City, Kochi. Farmhouse rooms to the west, formal zashiki to the east, registered in 2024 as a model of design.
A two storey plastered storehouse of 52 square metres in Konan City, Kochi. Projecting tile courses throw off the rain and the roof uses left handed pantiles.
A late Meiji boundary running 20 metres in Konan City, Kochi. Built on large undressed stones and roofed with tile, it ties three gates into a single frontage.
A small late Meiji gate 1.8 metres wide inside a compound in Konan City, Kochi. Copper roofed, it closes the dog-legged approach and opens on the eastern garden.
A plain late Meiji gate 2.0 metres wide in Konan City, Kochi. Boarded on one side, latticed slider on the other, it led the household to its own entrance.
Located in Akebono-cho, Kochi City, the Former Imperial Japanese Army 44th Infantry Regiment Auditorium is a single-storey wooden hall built around 1898-1900 and registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2023. Together with a surviving ammunition depot, it preserves the physical memory of the regiment that sent generations of Kochi men to war for nearly half a century, with king-post trusses and lap-siding walls largely intact.
Located in the Asakura district of Kochi City, the Former Imperial Japanese Army Infantry 44th Regiment Ammunition Depot is a single-story brick building from the Meiji era, registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in February 2023. With its 50-centimeter-thick brick walls, iron-clad segmental-arch double doors, raised wooden floor for humidity control, and surviving earthen embankment, it stands as one of Japan's rarest surviving examples of late-19th-century military storage architecture. Together with the regiment's Lecture Hall, nearby Asakura Shrine, Asakura Castle ruins, and Kochi University campus, it forms a compelling half-day heritage walk for travelers interested in modern Japanese history.
The main hall of Kuwaze Shrine in Ino, Kochi, an early Meiji shrine on a ledge beside a waterfall, sits inside a cover hall, carved with painted dragons.
The Goto Family Residence Wooden Fence, an 1896 board fence in Aki, runs 5.0 metres from the main house to the barn, with tile coping and a sliding wicket door.
The Goto Family Residence Main House, built in 1896 on the Aki Castle site, is a registered hipped-roof house whose tiles change direction slope by slope.
The Goto Family Residence Detached Wing, an 1896 two-room tatami retreat west of the main house in Aki, is registered for a hipped roof tiled in two directions.
The Goto Family Residence Storage Shed, an 8.3 square metre hut of 1896 in Aki, is registered for its open south front and a north wall built to look like a fence.
A 1911 inner wall in Konan, Kochi: 14 metres of roofed earthen wall and a 6.4-metre stone arm that split garden from work yard and hold back a garden hill.