Meiji
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A single-bay bracket-arm gate in Tsushima, Aichi, two metres wide under a tiled gable. Stone struts replace the timber ones usually set behind its posts.
A nineteen-metre brick boundary wall finished in January 1913 in Tsushima, Aichi. Laid in English bond with buttresses every two metres, it was built to stop fire.
A large early Meiji townhouse on the old Mino Road at Okoshi post town, built for a Kiso River ferry overseer. Its low tsushi-nikai floor and lattice front survive.
Built in 1903, the smallest and oldest of the storehouses. Its base wears namako tilework and a large ridge tile crowns it, dense with detail for its size.
Built in 1889, the oldest survivor. As the Kato family annex it lodged guests, with royalty named in local records; its black south wall anchors the streetscape.
A wall running about 28 metres along the front. Its southern base is granite in a tortoiseshell pattern, finished in black plaster, paired with the annex behind.
Built in 1896 as the Nagoya Chamber of Commerce main building and moved into Kenchuji temple in 1934, this 454-square-meter timber hall was registered in 2000.
Discover the main hall of Kozenji Temple in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1893 by the Takenaka family. Standing on the ruins of Haguro Castle, this Rinzai Zen temple traces its origins to the Kamakura-period warrior Kajiwara Kagetoki.
A brewer's town house of about 1897 in Inuyama, Aichi, its two floors faced almost entirely in lattice, with a wide earthen passage behind. Registered in 2005.
The Kojima Residence roofed wall runs 56 metres along a lane in Inuyama's castle town, fronting a 1597 sake brewery with a formal honored gate. Registered in 2005.
The gate of Saishin-ji, a Jodo Shinshu temple in Anjo, Aichi, is a small four-legged gate built in 1903, richly carved with dragons and registered in 2022.
A small earthen storehouse at Sairenji temple near Inuyama Station, built in the Meiji era and moved here in 1937. One of the temple's five registered buildings.
A registered 1872 farmhouse in Kira, Aichi, built by a coastal shipping family. Its drama is overhead: a well-crib roof frame above the earthen-floored rooms.
The Sahashi Family Residence in Inuyama, known as Toraya, is a mid-Meiji townhouse registered in 2007 for its balustraded upper windows and black-plaster end bays.
Shibata Family Residence Main House in Kiyosu, Aichi, is an 1896 candy merchant's townhouse on the Minoji road, registered in 2006. Crossed beams and annual opening.
Added in 1893 beside its older neighbour in the former Narumi post town of Nagoya, Naka Storehouse joins under a dropped roof and hides an iron tie in its frame.
Built in 1891 in the old Narumi post town of Nagoya, the black-plastered two-storey Momiji Storehouse of the Shimozato Chiyokura house was registered in 2024.
Discover Jakkō-in Hondō, a registered cultural property in Inuyama, Aichi. Rebuilt in 1879, this graceful main hall sits on Mt. Tsugao surrounded by 1,000 maple trees, blending Buddhist tradition with stunning seasonal beauty.
The smallest of the seven, this late-Meiji tea room is barely four mats. Tradition credits it to local master Shimomura Mitsuyoshi, and bamboo runs throughout.
A Kobo Daishi hall of 1909 at Shounji, a Zen temple in Inuyama's old castle town, with three ten-mat rooms under coffered ceilings. Registered in 2012.