Meiji

This late Meiji bell tower at Shounji Temple in Inuyama fits classical carpentry, brackets and frog-leg struts, into 18 square meters. Registered in 2012.

Joshoji Temple Main Hall in Toyota, Aichi, is an 1898 Shin Buddhist hall about 20 meters square, registered in 2005. Carved details, priests' quarters, and access.

A mid-Meiji reception wing beside the main house in Isshiki, Nishio, registered in 2022. Two rooms of 10 mats, an alcove with shelves, a polished cedar post.

Built in 1879, the Suzuki Family Residence Storehouse in Aisai City is the oldest of four registered structures here, eleven years older than the main house.

The Suzuki Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Aisai City, a middle Meiji earthen store for the family's reclaimed paddy, has held a century-old Steinway since 2023.

Built in 1890 at Saya in Aisai City, the Suzuki Family Residence Main House holds a formal principal room, a temple-like altar room and a sukiya tea room.

Discover the Seto Eisen Church Chapel, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1900 in Seto City, Aichi. This charming wooden chapel blends Western and Japanese architectural techniques and remains an active place of worship today.

Built around 1896 in Nagoya, Zengyoji Temple Bell Tower packs Zen-style bracketing and fan rafters into 7.6 square metres on a rough stone base. Registered 2018.

Zenryuji Temple Entrance Hall in Okazaki, Aichi, was built in 1898. Three rooms in a row, a curved gable at the centre, one coffered ceiling for the formal room.

Zenryuji Temple Main Gate in Okazaki, Aichi, is an early Meiji koraimon. It spans 3.2 metres, with a low roofline and copper-faced doors below a heavy lattice.

A mid-Meiji earthen kura in Inuyama's old castle town, the Takino Family Storehouse shows namako-kabe walls and heavy earthen fire doors, registered in 2004.

Tanahashi Family Residence Main House in Arimatsu, Nagoya, was built in 1875 for the Oigeta Hattori shibori wholesalers. Ridge plaque, plastered front, 2009 listing.

Built in 1902 in an old Aichi cotton town, the pale-blue wooden Chita Okada Simple Post Office was Chita's first registered cultural property and still sells stamps.

The main hall of Chobo-ji in Nagoya is a registered hojo-style building rebuilt in 1894 after the Great Nobi Earthquake, at a Zen temple founded by the monk Muju.

Built in 1887, the saimonden and corridor of Chiryu Shrine in Aichi link its halls under one cypress-bark roof, a rare Owari-style layout registered in 2014.

The Ubagami-sha at Chiryu-jinja in Aichi is a vermilion Meiji-period auxiliary shrine to a mother goddess of childbirth, registered for its fine carving.

Chiryū-an, a Meiji-era tea house relocated to Chiryū Shrine in 1968, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property prized for sukiya touches such as bark-edged posts.

Tokuunji Temple Main Hall in Nishio, Aichi, built in 1883, is 3 bays wide but 8 bays deep, a plan that buys room for chanting practice and leaves the exterior plain.

Built in 1899 as the front gate of the Owari Tokugawa residence in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Black Gate is a three-bay yakuimon of heavy zelkova, listed in 2014.

A stone draw well of about 1900 in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Tsurube Well keeps its granite curb, adzed post, cedar-bark roof and cherry-blossom iron pulley.