Meiji
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A three-bay tower gate of 1901 at Sumiyoshi Shrine, Shimonoseki, revived from a Muromachi gate demolished in 1870, with a regional front eave. Registered 2017.
The Nakano Family Residence Clothing Storehouse in Nagato is a two-storey storehouse dated to 1891 by an ink inscription, its white walls banded by drip tiles.
The Nakano Family Residence Inner Storehouse in Nagato is a mid-Meiji two-storey storehouse joined to the shop by a corridor and plastered right up into its eaves.
The Nakano Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Nagato is a mid-Meiji single-storey storehouse with two stepped, canopied doors, beside the clothing store.
The Nakano Family Residence Shop and Main House in Nagato is a mid-Meiji draper's townhouse with a long frontage on the old road and an open well lined with shelves.
The Nakano Family Residence Wall in Shimonoseki is a Meiji tiled earthen wall 8.3 metres long on a dressed-stone footing, dividing the forecourt from the garden.
The old office of Mutsumi village in Hagi, Yamaguchi, built in 1895, is a gable-fronted timber hall with a hip-and-gable porch, a rare Meiji village office.
The storehouse of the old Mutsumi village office in Hagi, Yamaguchi, built in 1896, keeps its plastered walls and Sekishu tiles together with the office in front.
The oldest of the three registered Takadai buildings in Hagi, this early Meiji earthen storehouse held the trays and tableware for a hundred-mat banquet hall.
The Former Mutsuzawa School in Kofu, an 1875 timber schoolhouse with a central tower in the Fujimura style, stands by Kofu Station as the Fujimura Memorial Museum.
Timber chapel of 1897 in Ichikawamisato, Yamanashi, built by a Canadian Methodist mission church in white-plastered kura style; still used for worship today.
Hot-spring building in Yamanashi City, a communal bath of about 1875 with an entrance wing of about 1942, keeping its original half-sunken spring bath.
The Sakurabayashi Family Residence Inner Room in Kofu is a 1912 two-storey reception wing with three rooms on each floor, kumiko lattice transoms and west alcoves.
The Sakurabayashi Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Kofu is a 1905 gatehouse whose rooms held a rickshaw man and the doctor's clinic, with zelkova doors.
The Sakurabayashi Family Residence West Document Storehouse in Kofu is a c.1912 earthen storehouse with mortar walls, an artificial stone base and a king post truss.
The mid-Meiji home at the heart of the Sugiura doctors' estate in Showa, Yamanashi, with a curved-gable guest entrance, west veranda and airy upper floor. Now shut.
A long mid-Meiji earthen-walled storehouse, 10.9 by 3.6 meters, on the north edge of the Sugiura doctors' estate in Showa, Yamanashi. Both floors are open.
An L-shaped mid-Meiji barn in the corner of the Sugiura doctors' estate in Showa, Yamanashi, its clay walls lined with split logs like a rice store. Tools on show.
A mid-Meiji earthen-walled storehouse joined by corridor to the Sugiura doctors' main house in Showa, Yamanashi, with a 10-mat room and anteroom inside its walls.
The Tsuchiya Family Residence Rear Gate in Koshu, Yamanashi, is a plain early Meiji bracket-arm gate, 2.3 m wide, closing the north edge of a large farm estate.