Meiji

A household strongroom of 1905 on a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama, limewashed above and rendered like masonry below, in line with two reception wings.

A tool store of about 1911 on a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama. An English-bond shell plastered to look traditional, and the smallest of the seven.

A reception wing of about 1905 on a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama: two antechambers, a ten-mat formal room and a veranda, older than the Western wing.

On the western bank of the Nakagawa River in Yashio, Saitama, the main hall of Hachijō Hachiman Shrine — rebuilt in 1891 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2022 — is a single-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary covered head-to-toe in elaborate woodcarving. Most remarkably, its side panels depict the 1889 promulgation of the Constitution of the Empire of Japan, the Imperial Diet, and the Privy Council, an extraordinarily rare example of contemporary statecraft carved into a Shinto shrine.

An 1887 seaside guest house at Futami near Ise, built in two months for an empress. A 120-mat hall and ornate rooms are highlights. Closed for restoration from 2026.

The mid-Meiji main house of the Akai Family Residence in Iga faces the gate gable-first. Its plan, with two projecting wings, follows the earlier samurai house.

A two-story storehouse of 1895 at the Akai Family Residence in Iga, set on a cut-stone base, with a plastered doorframe and a small canopy on carved brackets.

Tile-capped earthen walls of 1895 linking the gate and storehouse of the Akai Family Residence in Iga, with a small south gate and tall inuyarai along the street.

Built in 1895 and registered in 2014, the Asanokan Entrance Wing fronts Ise's Futami inn row with a hipped-and-gabled pantile roof and a projecting gabled porch.

The Asanokan Banquet Wing of 1895 holds an eighty-mat hall under a coved coffered ceiling, with a shoin-style alcove wall and a rear door onto the beach at Ise.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Well House is a late Meiji open shelter in Yokkaichi whose four inward-leaning posts carry a tiled roof over a stone-curbed courtyard well.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Steaming House is a late Meiji hall in Yokkaichi where rice was washed and steamed, with open roof framing and a ridge ventilator for steam.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Former Rice Storehouse is a mid Meiji grain store in Yokkaichi, beside the old rice mill, with a stone-framed door and exposed roof framing.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Former Rice Mill is a mid Meiji rice-polishing hall in Yokkaichi with artificial-stone door frames, set by the main gate and family house.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Main House, built in 1891 in Yokkaichi, Mie, is a black-plastered brewer's home with a through passage and six rooms, framing the street front.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Storehouse and Office is a late Meiji building in Yokkaichi that pairs a sake store with the office, marked by tall windows in plaster frames.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Barn is a long two-storey Meiji utility building in Yokkaichi that ends the continuous boarded wall running beside the old rice mill and store.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery West Earthen Wall is a late Meiji roofed timber wall in Yokkaichi, 19 metres long, with white plaster panels and bracketed, tiled eaves.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery West Reception Wing, an 1898 guest wing in Yokkaichi, links to the family house by a corridor, with four tatami rooms facing a small garden.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Bottling House is a late Meiji two-storey hall in Yokkaichi where sake was bottled, with split vertical and lapped boards and two window tiers.