Meiji
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The 1909 Nakano Family Residence Main House in Tara, Saga: three wings, a carved formal entrance and a waist-high alcove for chair seating, where Nakano Maki taught.
The Nakano Family Residence Gateposts in Tara, Saga: two tuff pillars of about 1909, 3.1 metres high, with chamfered corners and moulded coping stones.
A plain but solid late Meiji storehouse on the north edge of the Maeda estate in Imari, built as a back-yard store, with part of its lean-to set aside for tools.
A small late Meiji timber shed of 30 square meters on the Maeda estate in Imari, built for firewood beside the North Storehouse; its interior was later converted.
The largest storehouse of the Maeda estate in Imari, a late Meiji kura of 139 square meters facing the street beside the thatched main house, with a broad work area.
A 1904 single-storey rice mill at Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga, now the Tatsumi no Kura gallery, with a raised roof vent and an open timber roof frame inside.
A 1904 two-storey brewer's house in Kashima, Saga, turning a hip-and-gable end to the old Tara road, with a tiled canopy, bay window and white plaster upper floor.
The largest of seven listed buildings at Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga: a 1906 storehouse 14 ken long, extended after 1945, with an iron-clad south gable.
A tiny 1912 shrine to Fudo on a cut-stone base at the Asahiya Hara Pharmacy estate in Shiki, of unpainted timber with a carved beam; the smallest of the seven.
A two-story 1912 shop-house on Shiki's old street: an open shopfront below, barred windows and projecting eave beams above, built of zelkova and black pine.
A two-story 1912 storehouse behind the Asahiya Hara Pharmacy shop in Shiki, its white plaster walls set on a brick base, a modern touch in a traditional form.
A 1912 storage shed behind the Asahiya Hara Pharmacy shop in Shiki, with exposed posts and a tall interior, once 2 stories; registered in 2003 as key to the estate.
A 1912 one-bay gate and board fence beside the Asahiya Hara Pharmacy shop in Shiki, under copper roofs, with sliding doors hidden in the fence; registered in 2003.
The oldest of nine registered buildings at the Otani estate in Fukaya, Saitama: a late Meiji storehouse with a 12-mat upper room, linked to the 1931 Main House.
The Onda Family Residence Storehouse, Yashio, Saitama, was built in 1897 by a dyeing family. A boat hangs under the eaves, used to rinse cloth and to escape floods.
A middle Meiji storehouse by the Shingashi River in Fujimino, Saitama, all that remains of the Yoshinoya shipping agency. Registered in 1998; exterior only.
An 1879 two-storey lodging hall for pilgrims at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, with six 8-mat rooms per floor and a cusped-gable porch. Registered 2017.
The 1894 Niomon gate of Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin in Kumagaya, Saitama, five bays wide, with Nio guardians and carved birds and flowers on its beam. Registered 2017.
A hand-washing pavilion of 1883 to 1897 at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama: 3.4 square meters, with leaning posts, a stone basin and heavy carving. Free to see.
A mid-Meiji fieldstone wall, 62 meters long and up to 2.8 meters high, wrapping the Arai headman estate in Hidaka, Saitama, with a curved face and locked corner.