Meiji
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A mid-Meiji storehouse on the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, 11 metres long and split into rice and clothing rooms, with iron doors and Tosa plaster walls.
An early Meiji farmhouse at the heart of the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, with a four-room plan, a lofty reception room and a two-storey kitchen wing.
A mid-Meiji wall on the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi: 44 metres of tile-laid wall on a hexagonal stone base, with a river-stone ishiguro stretch on the east face.
A mid-Meiji two-storey storehouse at the back of the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, with a floating roof and Tosa plaster walls banded by rows of drip tiles.
An 1886 inner gate on the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, set in a partition wall dividing the approach from the work yard; a simplified version of the main gate.
An 1886 bracket gate with a sliding door and a 10-metre wall on a hexagonal stone base, screening the garden from the entrance path on the Hatanaka estate, Aki.
An 1886 guard hut in the south-west corner of the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, with a wave-pattern tiled ridge, hexagonal stone base and a lattice window.
An 1886 timber gate at the front of the Hatanaka estate in Aki, Kochi, with five rows of brackets and a door that slides into a side pocket. Registered in 2010.
A late Meiji corner shop at a three-way junction in central Nahari, Kochi, with a low attic floor and a north wing; once a fabric shop, registered in 2003.
A late Meiji brick storehouse behind the Hamada store in Nahari, Kochi: a timber frame clad in stretcher-bond brick with a curved stair inside; registered in 2003.
Late Meiji 2-storey storehouse in a landowner's compound in Nahari, Kochi, with namako tile walls, white Tosa plaster and six tiers of weather tiles on each gable.
A short stretch of the boundary wall of the Higashiyama Family Residence in Nahari, Kochi, built of beach cobbles in about 1905 and finished with a 4-course corner.
The storehouse of the Higashiyama Family Residence in Nahari, Kochi, built in about 1905, shows Tosa-plastered walls and tile ledges on a corner of the old town.
The main house of the Higashiyama Family Residence in Nahari, Kochi, built in about 1905, faces the street with a latticed front and a low tsushi upper floor.
The bath and toilet annex of the Higashiyama Family Residence in Nahari, Kochi, built in about 1905, keeps a goemon-buro and 30 cm decorative tiles inside and out.
Built in 1890 and relocated around 1917, this 201-square-metre Kochi house wears a hipped tile roof stepped down at the eaves. Registered in 2003, now a guesthouse.
The east wing of the Fukoe Residence in Tano, Kochi, is an early Meiji merchant house moved in 1924. Three tile bands shed rain from its plastered east gable.
The Fukoe Residence barn in Tano, Kochi, is listed as one item but built as two sheds. The lower east shed still carries its rare left-handed pan tiles.
A 35-metre cobblestone wall of about 1899 in Nahari, Kochi, whole river stones to the south and split faces to the north. Registered in 2000, visible from the road.
A plaster-walled storehouse of 1899 in Nahari, Kochi, its gables stepped with five courses of Tosa rain-shedding tile. Registered in 2000, now a silk museum.