Meiji
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Early-Meiji timber gatehouse at the Former Kato Family Residence in Kitanagoya, Aichi, built for a landlord. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, open free.
In Inuyama, Aichi, this late-Meiji giyofu building once housed a village bank. A dragon ridge tile, a phoenix gable, and a tall hall remain as a registered property.
A brick culvert of 1900 beneath the embankment of the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, where a nine-metre shaft and an eleven-metre bore drain a valley.
A 76-metre brick railway tunnel of 1900 on the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, with a pilastered portal and a memorial to its builders at the mouth.
A 75-metre brick railway tunnel of 1900 on the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, with a stone coping above its portal and a stretcher-bond brick lining.
Registered in 2024, the Former Nakano Hanroku Residence Main House sits on the Handa Canal, an 1889 merchant house with a double-width alcove and a boat-plank fence.
A twelve-metre boundary wall of 1913 in Tsushima, Aichi. Lapped boarding faces the street, split bamboo the garden, and a low wicket door opens near its east end.
A small two-storey earthen storehouse in Tsushima, Aichi, entered from inside the main house rather than the yard. Its black boarded walls held the family archive.
A timber two-storey house of 1912 to 1914 in Tsushima, Aichi. Daily rooms sit downstairs and formal reception rooms upstairs, inverting the plan of an Edo townhouse.
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.
The 1898 main hall of Kozenji temple in Haguro, Inuyama, Aichi, a hojo-style hall with an unusual double roof that anchors the local landscape. Registered.
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.