Meiji
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An early Meiji two-storey earthen storehouse at Matsuo Sake Brewery in Kami, Kochi, built as a koji room, its 8-ken wall of boards and white plaster lining the road.
An early Meiji single-storey brewing storehouse at Matsuo Sake Brewery in Kami, Kochi, its white walls ringed by two rows of Tosa rain tiles, listed for design.
A mid-Meiji storehouse in Nahari, Kochi: three earth-walled stores joined under staggered ridges, one lean-to serving all three doors. The oldest part of the house.
A Meiji shelter over a well on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi: four posts under a gabled tiled roof above a round stone-lined well ringed by river cobbles.
Meiji partition walls inside a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi: a board fence behind the main house and a plastered earthen wall around the annex garden.
A Meiji stone rampart around two sides of a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, doubling as a foundation, with square-faced and tortoiseshell-faced masonry.
A two-storey Meiji storehouse on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, for rice and tools, its plaster walls banded with four courses of rain-shedding tiles.
Three Meiji stone basins for drawing water and washing on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, linked to a water channel, one of cut stone and one of rounded stones.
The main house of a Meiji landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi: a gabled single-storey house with nine floored rooms, an earth-floored work area and a formal entrance.
A Meiji timber wall on the east side of a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, set on the stone perimeter and linking the gatehouse and outbuildings in one front.
A Meiji earthen wall at the corner of a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, its south run studded with river stones worked into the clay in the manner of Doi.
A small Meiji outbuilding on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, with a pickling room and a store, its clapboard and plaster wall forming part of the perimeter.
A Meiji gatehouse at the corner of a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, with barred musha-mado windows, clapboard and Tosa lime-plaster walls, and two tatami rooms.
A two-storey Meiji storage barn on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi, its walls boarded below and plastered in Tosa lime above, with boarded gables against rain.
A Meiji reception wing on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi: a ten-mat room with an alcove, a veranda onto a walled garden, and barred windows facing the road.
A Meiji toilet and bathhouse on a landowner's estate in Aki, Kochi: a three-stall toilet beside a bathhouse with a tiled tub and its own small stoking room.
Former Tashiro Family Western-Style House in Arita, Saga: an 1876 hybrid house a porcelain trader built for foreign buyers, with a colonnaded veranda.
A 7.3-metre brick chimney at Amabuki Shuzo in Saga, laid in English bond on a square base. It once drew smoke from the kitchen that fed the seasonal brewery crew.
A late Meiji fermentation warehouse at Amabuki Shuzo in Saga, 39 by 17 metres. Thick earthen walls hold the cold; round log posts and inclined beams carry the roof.
The mid-Meiji main house at Amabuki Shuzo in Saga, where an earthen passage splits office from home. An older storehouse was absorbed into its east half.