Meiji

明治

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Former Sugimoto Family Residence Long House
Mie 明治
Former Sugimoto Family Residence Long House

A c.1905 long house in Tsu, 19 m long and first used to raise silkworms: four rooms off an earth-floored passage and two levels inside, moved here around 1955.

Former Sugimoto Family Residence Nagayamon Gate
Mie 明治
Former Sugimoto Family Residence Nagayamon Gate

Early Meiji gatehouse moved to the Sugimoto compound in Tsu c.1879: a 2.3 m gateway on the west, a boarded room east, vertical boards in front, clapboard sides.

Former Sugimoto Family Residence Detached Room
Mie 明治
Former Sugimoto Family Residence Detached Room

A c.1893 reception wing joined to the Sugimoto main house in Tsu: eight- and six-mat rooms, a tea room and mizuya, opening east to one garden and north to another.

Former Hirata Family Residence Rice Storehouse
Mie 明治
Former Hirata Family Residence Rice Storehouse

An 1887 clay-walled rice store in Yokkaichi, Mie, with a plaster band below the eaves, a truss-braced roof and unusual diagonal rub boards inside. Registered 2015.

Former Hirata Family Residence Main House
Mie 明治
Former Hirata Family Residence Main House

A large 1870 house in Yokkaichi, Mie, with a formal hip-and-gable porch, sword marks said to date from the 1876 Ise Riot and a telephone room. Registered in 2015.

Former Hirata Family Residence Shoin
Mie 明治
Former Hirata Family Residence Shoin

An 1884 reception wing in Yokkaichi, Mie, with 15- and 10-mat rooms, yakusugi ceilings and openwork transoms of mountains and moon. Registered 2015; open seasonally.

Former Hirata Family Residence Middle Gate and Wall
Mie 明治
Former Hirata Family Residence Middle Gate and Wall

An 1885 gate and wall in Yokkaichi, Mie: a yakuimon gate in 13 meters of plastered, clapboarded wall dividing the forecourt from the shoin garden. Registered 2015.

Former Funaki Bridge
Mie 明治
Former Funaki Bridge

Road bridge over the Miya River gorge between Odai and Taiki, Mie, its 1905 brick piers on pentagonal bases carrying a 1934 steel Warren truss at an old ferry site.

Former Hosokawa Family Residence Riverside Storehouse
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Former Hosokawa Family Residence Riverside Storehouse

Early Meiji two-story clay storehouse at the river end of a Nabari merchant house: gable front, stepped fireproof doors, namako walls. Registered 2009; closed now.

Former Hosokawa Family Residence Main House
Mie 明治
Former Hosokawa Family Residence Main House

Early Meiji townhouse on the Hase Kaido in Nabari, Mie: varied lattices, mushiko windows, udatsu firewalls. Registered 2009; closed for renovation since April 2026.

Former Hosokawa Family Residence Middle Storehouse
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Former Hosokawa Family Residence Middle Storehouse

Early Meiji clay storehouse behind the courtyard of a Nabari merchant house: namako tile walls, offset windows, plastered eaves. Registered 2009; closed since 2026.

Former Hosokawa Family Residence Gate
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Former Hosokawa Family Residence Gate

Early Meiji gate beside the main house on the Hase Kaido in Nabari, Mie: a tiled wall roof over a board canopy on carved brackets. Registered 2009; seen from road.

Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Inner Storehouse and Rice Storehouse
Mie 明治
Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Inner Storehouse and Rice Storehouse

The Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Inner Storehouse and Rice Storehouse, built in 1893 in Matsusaka, keeps rice for koji in its west room and koji-making tools in the east.

Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Koji Chamber
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Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Koji Chamber

The Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Koji Chamber in Matsusaka, built around 1893, is a half-sunken fermenting room coated in plaster roof and all, where koji is still made.

Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Shop and Main House
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Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Shop and Main House

The Kojiya Tarobei Shoten Shop and Main House in Matsusaka, rebuilt around 1893, shows a black plaster front with a lattice, a bay window and mushiko-mado slits.

Konishi Mankintan Main Store and Main Building
Mie 明治
Konishi Mankintan Main Store and Main Building

Selling the same pilgrim medicine since 1676, this early Meiji merchant house on Ise's Geku approach keeps its curved gable, ribbed boarding and latticed upper bay.

Saihoji Kogaratei
Mie 明治
Saihoji Kogaratei

Attached to the main hall of a Suzuka temple, this small early Meiji shoin was named by the haiku poet Yamaguchi Seishi, who held verse gatherings in its four rooms.

Main House of Sasaki Nobutsuna's Birthplace
Mie 明治
Main House of Sasaki Nobutsuna's Birthplace

Townhouse of 1868 on the old Tokaido in Ishiyakushi, Suzuka, Mie, where the poet Sasaki Nobutsuna was born in 1872; open since 1970 as part of his memorial museum.

Storehouse of Sasaki Nobutsuna's Birthplace
Mie 明治
Storehouse of Sasaki Nobutsuna's Birthplace

Clay-walled storehouse of 1875 at the birthplace of poet Sasaki Nobutsuna in Ishiyakushi, Suzuka, Mie, part of his memorial museum and the old post-town scene.

Sano Family Residence Stone Wall
Mie 明治
Sano Family Residence Stone Wall

This early Meiji retaining wall in Matsusaka, Mie, runs 48 metres in undressed river cobbles, with a recess collecting spring water. Registered in 2013.