Meiji

明治

Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Meiji period (1868 – 1912). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

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Shimanouchi Katsuyuki Family Residence Water-Drawing Pond
Kochi 明治
Shimanouchi Katsuyuki Family Residence Water-Drawing Pond

A 1911 stone pond in Konan, Kochi, about 1.5 metres square, fed by water led along a gatehouse and under a wall: a record of how the district used its water.

Shimanouchi Katsuyuki Family Residence Storehouse
Kochi 明治
Shimanouchi Katsuyuki Family Residence Storehouse

A 1911 clay storehouse in Konan, Kochi, with a detached roof, a boarded base under Tosa plaster, and rows of projecting wall tiles that shed the region's heavy rain.

Shimanouchi Katsuyuki Family Residence Outer Wall
Kochi 明治
Shimanouchi Katsuyuki Family Residence Outer Wall

A 1911 wall in Konan, Kochi, running about 6.5 metres from a gatehouse round the estate's corner, its stone base laid in tortoise-shell pattern under Tosa plaster.

Shimanouchi Katsuyuki Family Residence Nagayamon Gate
Kochi 明治
Shimanouchi Katsuyuki Family Residence Nagayamon Gate

A tall 1911 gatehouse fronting a homestead in Konan, Kochi, with a hip-and-gable roof, doors set to one side, and a key-fret pattern in Tosa plaster on its wall.

Shimanouchi Katsuyuki Family Residence Barn and Silkworm-Rearing Room
Kochi 明治
Shimanouchi Katsuyuki Family Residence Barn and Silkworm-Rearing Room

A 1911 outbuilding in Konan, Kochi, with a two-storey silkworm room at its north end, a barn to the south, and a framed west wall lining a channel by the storehouse.

Takemura Family Storehouse
Kochi 明治
Takemura Family Storehouse

A late Meiji storehouse on Sakawa's sake-brewery street in Kochi, registered in 2018. Its plastered walls carry three tiers of Tosa water-shedding tiles.

Tadokoro Internal Medicine Clinic Main Building
Kochi 明治
Tadokoro Internal Medicine Clinic Main Building

Built about 1892 in Tosa City, Kochi, this single-storey house became a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2019 and still works as a clinic.

Tani Yuzo Family Residence Main Building
Kochi 明治
Tani Yuzo Family Residence Main Building

This 1874 merchant house in Tano, Kochi, keeps the layered shopfront of a Tosa market town: a lattice screen, lean-to eaves and a lime-plastered half-storey.

Teramura Norio Family Residence
Kochi 明治
Teramura Norio Family Residence

In Aki's Doi Kakuchu quarter, Kochi, this two-storey earthen storehouse shows the Tosa manner: a boarded base, lime plaster, and two tiers of drip tiles. Registered 2005.

Tokuo Teramura Family Residence Main Building
Kochi 明治
Tokuo Teramura Family Residence Main Building

In Aki's Doi Kakuchu quarter, Kochi, this late-Meiji house was both doctor's home and clinic, its waiting and consulting rooms beside the family rooms. Registered 2005.

Teramura Tokuo Family Residence Tenement Gate
Kochi 明治
Teramura Tokuo Family Residence Tenement Gate

At the southwest corner of this Aki residence, Kochi, a nagayamon joins gate and building, with a passage at one end and four rooms alongside. Registered 2005.

Teramura Norio Family Residence
Kochi 明治
Teramura Norio Family Residence

Behind the main house of this Aki residence, Kochi, a small wing stands by the storehouse: an earthen floor, a raised floor, and eaves sheltering a well. Registered 2005.

Teramura Norio Family Residence Wall
Kochi 明治
Teramura Norio Family Residence Wall

Along the west edge of this Aki residence, Kochi, the wall joins a Tosa-plaster section and a neribei of river cobbles with old tiles at each end. Registered 2005.

Nishioka Family Residence Storehouse
Kochi 明治
Nishioka Family Residence Storehouse

A small two-storey clay storehouse of about 1887 in Yasuda, Kochi, with a floating roof and a gable wall on the lane crossed by two tiers of drip tiles.

Nishioka Family Residence Main House
Kochi 明治
Nishioka Family Residence Main House

A single-storey house of about 1887 in Yasuda, Kochi, whose hipped and hip-and-gable roofs overlap above Tosa-plaster walls and a dark-walled entrance porch.

Nishioka Kimono Store
Kochi 明治
Nishioka Kimono Store

A kimono shop of about 1887 on a corner in Yasuda, Kochi: sales floor below, storage mezzanine and workroom above, with a board-and-plaster gable on the side street.

Nomura Family Residence East Stone Wall
Kochi 明治
Nomura Family Residence East Stone Wall

A late-Meiji ishiguro wall in Nahari, Kochi: 23 m of split stone on a tortoiseshell-masonry base, 1.6 m high and tile-capped, with a curved sleeve wall at the gate.

Nomura Family Residence South Stone Wall
Kochi 明治
Nomura Family Residence South Stone Wall

A late-Meiji ishiguro boundary wall in Nahari, Kochi: 25 m of split stone, 1.6 m high, its ends finished in plain stone, not cut corner blocks. Registered 2000.

Hatanaka Family Residence (Noradokei) Storehouse
Kochi 明治
Hatanaka Family Residence (Noradokei) Storehouse

A small 1887 plastered storehouse beside the Noradokei clock house in Aki, Kochi, with board skirting and a hooded gable window. Registered with the house in 1996.

Hatanaka Family Residence (Noradokei) Main House
Kochi 明治
Hatanaka Family Residence (Noradokei) Main House

An 1887 two-storey house in Aki, Kochi, with a handmade pseudo-Western clock tower on its north wing. Known as Noradokei; Kochi's first registered building (1996).