Meiji
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A late Meiji storehouse at a Yonezawa sake brewery that copies the plaster and red-tiled skirt of its older neighbour, while carrying its roof on a king post truss.
A mid-Meiji brewing storehouse at the heart of a Yonezawa sake brewery, raised on a plinth of stone and brick and roofed with an early king post truss.
Former ryotei of 1895 by the master carpenter Sato Taitaro in Sakata, Yamagata, used by Kitamaebune shipowners; now open with displays on local history.
A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at Zenpoji in Yamagata, built by fishing communities as Japan's only pagoda memorializing the fish taken from the sea.
A Registered Tangible Cultural Property at Zenpoji in Yamagata, a quiet hall keeping the temple's earlier name and holding a cloud-and-dragon ceiling painting.
Sōmaya Shuoku in Sakata, Yamagata, is a registered cultural property of about 1895, built around the earthen storehouses that survived the 1894 quake and fire.
An early Meiji earthen storehouse in Jinba, Yamagata City, joined to the main house, with formal tatami rooms and straight-timber roof framing; registered 2008.
An early Meiji farmhouse in Jinba, Yamagata City, its thatch sealed under iron. Four rooms in a tanoji square include a raised formal room; registered in 2008.
A tiny early Meiji earthen storehouse off the kitchen side of a farmhouse in Jinba, Yamagata City, still used to keep pickles through the winter; registered in 2008.
An 1876 earthen storehouse by a roadside channel in Jinba, Yamagata City, with stepped white plaster walls and the parlor storehouse's roof frame; registered 2008.
A late Meiji two-storey storehouse in Yamagata that keeps its original road side with wide openings, still reading as part of the brewery from across the highway.
A late Meiji two-storey storehouse in Yamagata that turns its long wall to the highway, a light okiyane roof over white plaster, continuing the East Storehouse line.
A late Meiji brewing storehouse in Yamagata with no openings in its walls, a little lower than the Middle Storehouse; registered as a model of earthen-walled design.
The Lower Worship Hall at Fukura Kuchinomiya, Chokaisan Omonoimi Shrine: a broad 1879 hall with a raised inner sanctum and fire-rite votive plaque. Registered 2012.
The Main Hall of Warabioka Kuchinomiya, Chokaisan Omonoimi Shrine: a massive 1896 sanctuary, 13.8 m wide, built by local carpenters in a former ascetics' village.
An 1886 two-storey earthen storehouse at the Naganuma sake brewery in Nagai, Yamagata, with lime plaster, wainscot and paired window shutters. Registered 2008.
The Hotel Otowaya Main Building by Yonezawa Station, a timber building of 1898, stands out with arched doors, bay windows and cusped windows on its three floors.
The Maizuru Bridge of 1886 crosses the moat of Yonezawa Castle on the approach to Uesugi Shrine, a wide stone arch known locally as the Spectacles Bridge.
Yamashiroya Nigura in Kaminoyama, Yamagata, is a late-Meiji earthen-walled storehouse registered in 2011, built to hold the working stock of a hot spring inn.
Built around 1875 in earthen storehouse construction, the Kannon-do at Ryuto-ji sits below Mount Chokai, its front beam carved with a dragon for the temple's name.